Metadata:

As told through Little Magazines and Riot Grrrl Zines

DH 101

Spring 2015

May 6th, 2015

Mackenzie Brooks

Agenda

  • A quick tour through the past, present, and future of information organization and retrieval
  • Little Magazines, Fanzines, Zines subject analysis activity
  • Standards: what are they good for!
  • Zine cataloging activity
  • The problems with metadata
  • Project check in

Keep in mind:

  • Metadata as DH building block
  • Metadata = data about data
  • Frequently that means "information about a book" but increasingly it means, "information about a digital object." 
  • Information as power -- who is telling the story?

Our story begins...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#/media/File:The_Burning_of_the_Library_at_Alexandria_in_391_AD.jpg

the Medieval library

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chained_library#/media/File:Libraries_in_the_Medieval_and_Renaissance_Periods_Figure_4.jpg

Anthony Panizzi, Charles Cutter, and Melvil Dewey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Panizzi#/media/File:Panizzi.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CharlesAmmiCutter_BostonAthenaeum.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification#/media/File:Melvil_Dewey_1891.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8601342@N03/4549779936/

the OPAC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynix_(software)#/media/File:Dynix-Main-Menu-via-Telnet.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Google1998.png

Ghost of Metadata Present

Why Metadata Matters

 

http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/image.axd?picture=%2F2014%2F01%2Fmetadata.jpg

#hashtag

http://schema.org
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48204903
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python

Ghost of Metadata Future

Every thing a unique identifier!!!

Little Magazines

Fanzines

Zines

Activity #1:

Keyword Creation

  • One student per table.
  • Keep the contents of each box together.
  • Read/skim a magazine.
  • On a sheet of paper, write down a few keywords that describe what the magazine is about. 
  • Fold the paper and leave it with the magazine, but do not read the work of others!

Standards exist for a reason.

Dublin Core

 

= metadata schema

Dublin Core Elements

  • Title
  • Creator
  • Subject
  • Description
  • Publisher
  • Contributor
  • Date
  • Type
  • Format
  • Identifier
  • Source
  • Language
  • Relation
  • Coverage
  • Rights

xZINECOREx

Activity #2: Cataloging zines!

  • Log into Omeka 
  • From the menu, go to Items > Add an item
  • Pick a magazine and fill out the fields with the appropriate information.
  • Consult the Dublin Core website if necessary. 
  • Create custom fields if necessary 

http://www.mackenziekbrooks.info/omeka/admin

What do all these publications have in common?

Archiving the Underground

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