Discussion of various Design for Context website projects where archival collection information (data, images, categorization) has been incorporated with art object data, historical events data, etc. Presented to the Linked Art Working Group, which is developing standards for shareable linked data in the museum, archives and cultural field. Presented 16-Nov-2022.

1. LINKED ART WORKING GROUP • November 16, 2022 slides posted at: d4c.link/la-arch2022
Charlie Butcosk
charlie@designforcontext.com
Duane Degler
duane@designforcontext.com
Archival Collections: Design Considerations
LINKED ART

2. Archival modeling and use with Linked Art | Design for Context 16 Nov 2022
Let’s talk about…
Considering archival data
What kinds of archival projects are we supporting?
Key questions
Why Linked Art? What does it give us?
What should Linked Art do in terms of archives?

3. Archival modeling and use with Linked Art | Design for Context 16 Nov 2022
u Attributes of the data/assets
u Attributes of the classification
CONSIDERING ARCHIVAL DATA

4. Archival modeling and use with Linked Art | Design for Context 16 Nov 2022
DACS/Artworks mapping, O’Keeffe Museum, Kate Blanch, Liz Ehrnst 2017
RiC-O https://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/RiC-O_v0-2.html
PCDM https://pcdm.org/2016/04/18/models
Attributes of the data / assets
Single institution
• Quantity!
• Set-focused, detailed cataloguing
• Item-level variability
• Top-down and bottom-up
inheritance?
• Formats
• Source data, exports, APIs
• Models
• Existing, emerging, hybrid
Multi-institution
• All those things to the left
• Much more quantity!
• Harmonization

5. Archival modeling and use with Linked Art | Design for Context 16 Nov 2022
Attributes of the classification
Single institution
• Harmonizing across collections
systems
• Dealing with Strings, not Things
• Format = cataloguing standards
Multi-institution
• Variations
• Consensus on reconciliations
• Change management
• Search

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u Museum archives
u Historical archives (art-related)
WHAT KINDS OF ARCHIVAL PROJECTS
ARE WE SUPPORTING?

7. Archival modeling and use with Linked Art | Design for Context 16 Nov 2022
Examples
Duchamp Research Portal
JDCRP: Jewish Digital Cultural
Recovery Project
Missouri Remembers
The Art & Life of Georgia O’Keeffe
duchamparchives.org
collections.okeeffemuseum.org
pilot-demo.jdcrp.org
missouriartists.org

8. Archival modeling and use with Linked Art | Design for Context 16 Nov 2022
Digital Ecosystem
DigIn
dynamic
IIIF images
LOD: Linked.Art
static
O’Keeffe
staff
Conservation
Data / Images
Public
Interactives
Visitor Website
External
institutions
Interpretive
Content
publications,
education,
exhibitions…
Publishing tools
Publications
Collections Online
Internal tools
O’Keeffe
staff
DH/CH
Researchers,
Artists
Art Collection
Archival Collection
Library Collection
DAMS
ingest
Enriched data
external data
Digital Management Digital Delivery Digital Use

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KEY QUESTIONS

10. Archival modeling and use with Linked Art | Design for Context 16 Nov 2022
Questions we ask ourselves and our partners
• What role does the archives have in the overall collection?
• What’s the glue? How does it play well with the other data?
• IDs / URIs – linking relationships across systems
• Relationship definitions as part of cataloguing practices
• Vocabulary harmonization
• Archival hierarchies
• N-level hierarchies
• Other types of hierarchies (thematic/topical poly-hierarchies)

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WHY LINKED ART? WHAT DO WE GAIN?

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WHAT IS LINKED ART’S SCOPE FOR
ARCHIVAL DATA?

13. LINKED ART WORKING GROUP • November 16, 2022 slides posted at: d4c.link/la-arch2022
Charlie Butcosk
charlie@designforcontext.com
Duane Degler
duane@designforcontext.com
Archival Collections: Design Considerations
LINKED ART