Paul Rowe, CEO, Vernon SystemsMuseums Australia Conference, 19 May 2013

Create once, publish everywhereApproaches for reusing collection information online

C.O.P.E.

Coined in a blog post by Daniel Jacobson, Director of Application Development for National Public

Radio in the US

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pollyalida/2559152829/

A National Public Radio news story

http://www.slideshare.net/zachbrand/npr-api-create-once-publish-everywhere

Object records are nuggets of digital content

http://ehive.com/account/3606/object/39223

Manage the digital content

Presentation agnostic

Responsive design

http://australianmuseum.net.au/

Design for flexibility

http://talkingtothecan.com/multi-channel-publishing/

Matthew Oliver, Ministry of Culture & Heritage, NZ

Minimal object details

Title

Description

Media

Web address

Sewing bag and contents

Sewing bag and contents; a mottled blue, felt bag with two short, plaited felt handles. Each side of the bag is decorated with applied felt flowers in pink and yellow. The bag is dated 1938. The bag contains many scraps of fabric; a plastic shoe horn; a matchbox; a baby's shoe and socks;

http://nzgirlhistory.net/object/32498/

http://curatorialpoetry.tumblr.com

Sharing on social sites

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22765254

Information flow

http://www.slideshare.net/zachbrand/npr-api-create-once-publish-everywhere

Dublin Core

http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18804031/

Aggregation

Can C.O.P.E. cope?

Squishing the data

http://www.flickr.com/photos/76345608@N00/3773352432/

TV set = Television = Telecommunication receiver

Local content for local people

Clearly mark the licence that applies to each piece of content

The future

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pierofix/3547550101/

Managing contextual descriptions

CIDOC CRM

http://www.cidoc-crm.org/

LIDO

http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-specification.pdf

Linked open data

http://lodlam.net/

http://www.slideshare.net/georginab/linked-open-data-and-american-art

Smithsonian American Art MuseumLinking up cataloguing data to external sources. E.g. DBpedia / Wikipedia

Standard interfaces to varied data

Benefits and tips

A bigger audience and a more efficient use of staff time for content creation.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightmash/3183278318/

“Get your content ready to go anywhere because it’s going to

go everywhere.”

Brad Frost, 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shengfalin/410027557/

Significance statements

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=124

Use the source Luke!

http://letsruletatooine.tumblr.com/post/42979793334

Metrics

"Content doesn’t just appear magically out of thin air with a wave of a magic social fairy wand." - Tara Hunt, Social Web Strategy

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Thank you

Paul RoweVernon Systems@armchair_caver

http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3524229651/