- Adam is dealing with data that is part analog, part digital, part born-digital, much of it is being transformed to spatial data or being transformed into database driven complex interfaces/objects
- computationally based photography - extracting the geometry of a 3d object (think Autodesk app) - the resulting object is a composite 3d file consisting of 200 images
- The archive of this stuff is enormous and poorly described, the meaning of this stuff is based on relations between things so we have a bunch of stuff and what do we do with it - dynamic data set that is only useful for the public in the future it has to be curated beyond file-level information
- Adam and his colleagues are concerned because now that everything is digital - it is also the only record, you can't repeat the experiement, you already busted the sites
- They put images in DAIS
- They put some stuff in UTDR
- They are working with TACC on some of the geospational/relational stuff
- TACC working on autometadata extraction based on a naming convention that maps back to its location in a directory structure & database
- Moving stuff on to IRODS
- The TACC collaboration ran out of money, the new grant didn't get funded but they wanted to build a stand alone desktop app where you could drap and drop objects into it and basic Dublic Core would be applied close to the point of creation - mediating the transition of this stuff to a library system
- With UTDR - they wanted to put original illustrations, text, fonts, etc. (the components of the final publication)
- Came to a point where stuff was kind of working - DAIS, metadata by grad students (25K records), TACC running IRODS and database
- TACC got some new money to work on visualization of directory structures - but there were issues putting everything on Corral - was moved to a VM where there was more access and some of their stuff is now being run by LAITS
- DAIS is in stasis and the VRC Islandora is just one collection in DAIS, not the whole thing
- Maria Esteva has been doing alot of work with tree structure analysis
- Adam wants to get to a point where the library is actually managing the data
- The interactive stuff they have has mabye 10yrs at most, but extracting data to attach tot he images and keep it somewhere where it can be preserved, hopefully, the library can take it on - especially the more the library is talking to TACC
- Adam wants to publish the data - the idea is there would be an online companion (the data itself) to combine with the publication (the article) - you would be able to walk the path from the article to the data and from the data to an article
- point of entry that is narrative and usable
- Folks wanna get down to the item and then they want to zoom their way out "where was it mentioned" - the semantic web, you want the context but you just want a piece
- bunch of money that has gone to linked data projects for coins - because they pretty much agree on coins
- people want to point out to gazetteer or to an ontology
- European conceptual reference model - archaeological items in museum collections - British museum did a CRM mapping of their collection
- Reliable citation plays a role
- URIs for every item in your database - reliable citation for the exact version that you provided
- it's expensive - we need campus cost sharing and we need to create the infrastructure for it to scale
- TDAR their costs are very high and they are just now getting spatial data figured
- the modeling TACC does - they don't keep all of the products of that
- 3D video files - this is the way that archaeology can be a science, if folks have the files, they can reproduce
- In terms of proposing a model for implementation - the project directors want a solution and TACC wants to program; they haven't been thinking about anything webby - or pushing out code and constant updating
- What do they need - Protege (basic complement for ontology building) Do we build a scaffold? Do we build a desktop project?
- centralized schemata building - data
- Open Context
- TDAR - Adam is working with the guys from Open Context
- ORCAT (sp?)
- The issue with archaeology is that the "stuff" they work with, the actual materials they work with are extremely localized
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