All,
On Wednesday morning, I'll be
leading a workshop with Barrie Howard on Recollection, a developing initiative
from the National Digital Information Infrastructure & Preservation Program
at the Library of Congress.
Recollection
is a tool that constructs web views from information stored in spreadsheets or
MODS records. NDIIPP funded the development of this tool to provide flexible
access to collections preserved by its partners. The workshop will provide an
overview of the tool and an opportunity for hands-on training loading data and
creating views.
A
brief overview of Recollection functionality:
·
quickly create a
number of views from a single data set
·
add geographic
points to place data
·
standardize date
data
·
create faceted
browsing lists
·
create tag clouds
·
create scatter
plot and pie chart graphs
·
embed views in
other web sites
·
export and share
data in a variety of formats, including json, tab delineated, and RDF/XML
·
analyze data and
metadata for clean up or remediation
For anyone that's interesting
in attending, please feel free to bring a laptop. We can create accounts
for you on the spot so you can explore the tools. We'll have some sample
date for you to load, or you can bring your own data. It should be in a
single XML file of MODS records (up to 1,000 records works best), a rectangular
spreadsheet (up to 1,000 rows works best), or a link to a file online or a RSS
feed.
Leslie
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Leslie Johnston
Manager of Technical
Architecture Initiatives
National Digital Information
Infrastructure & Preservation Program
Library of Congress