Make It Work
Stewardship of Digital
Information.. Thinking Big
Jane Mandelbaum
Library of Congress
XLDB 2011

bigish ideas
› one big distributed collection
› open distributed infrastructure
› mindset: records -> data

Beyond thinking like cards

to thinking like data

the workflow
› ingest data
› augment data
› design views
› publish and embed views
› share data and views

seeing the big picture

helps find little fixes

the result come for the views, stick around for the linked data…

share data and views share not only the end results, but also the raw data for others to create their own views.

what’s next?
full open source release: imminent
› public/private views and data: soon
› viewshare.org public launch: soon-ish
› big data sets: in a while
› viewshare.org as a portal: in the future
› remix across data sets: long view

stay in touch
› email NDIIPPaccess@loc.gov
and we will create an account for you.
› visit http://recollection.zepheira.com/
› explore joining NDSA – National Digital
Stewardship Alliance http://digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/