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It’s raining data!

Grab a bucket!

Dorothea SaloUniversity of Wisconsin

Access 2009

the...

of Open AccessPainting: “Cassandra,” Evelyn de MorganPhoto: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cassandra1.jpeg

I’ve got nothing against

but the reality was...Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/y2bk/528300692/

... blurrier.

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goals?

means?

something for nothing?

fit between content and container?

fit between user needs and system?

and so now, I may be becoming

the...

of Data Curation?

What do we know about data?

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There’s a lot of data.

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Data are there to be interacted with.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonevans/1032687817/

Data are wildly diverse in nature...

... as are their technical environments.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28481088@N00/670258156/

Data are already out there.

Photo: NASA (via http://nasaimages.org/), “Multiwavelength M81”

... but really want to be digital.

A lot of data are analog...

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Data are project-based.

http://www.exploringthehyper.net/

Data are sloppy.

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Data aren’t standardized.

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Our Big Bucket:

the digital library

Our other Big Bucket:

the institutional repository

Impedance mismatchesPhoto: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peasap/655111542/

What do we know about these?Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/schex/193912573/

Carefully built and tended

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/naskapi/index-e.html

Production is a Taylorist’s dream.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/villeneuve53/1808995620/

when it isn’t a Taylorist’s nightmare.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elsie/97542274/

What do we know about these?

inside our institutions.

We’re caged up

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Any color...Photo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Ford_Model_T_in_HK.JPG

Bring it on; we’ll take anything!

... as long as it’s static and final.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/orblivio/146691405/

Right, anything you’ve got!

... one file at a time.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jetalone/39990302/

Any look and feel...

... as long as it’s key-value pairs.

Any metadata you want!

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Do anything you want...

... as long as it’s “download.”Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/procsilas/306417902/

Content models

Enough said.

So where does all that leave us?

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We need bigger, better buckets.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonevans/1032687817/

Silos are both necessary

and unacceptable.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jojakeman/2818910104/

We have a lot of modeling to do.

And meta-modeling.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/crobj/727348790/

We have a lot of code to write.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fienna/170559081/

We can’t code or model in isolation.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/naus3a01/240614578/

Fedora is the new world.

But Fedora must change.Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mythwhisper/3361907495/

Solr brings it all togetherPhoto: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chantrybee/2911840052/

... the

of Data Curation.Vermeer: the Muse Clio, from “The Allegory of Painting”

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