BWR) Collaborating to Document the World’S Built Environment

Built Works Registry (BWR) collaborating to document the world’s built environment

National Leadership Grant

AASL| Project Update | 11 April 2014 Margaret Smithglass Built Works Registry Librarian Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University

BWR partnership

New partnerships will result from collaboration and coordination among a wide array of stakeholders. This will realize workflow efficiencies and minimize redundancies between and among entities that create and use both authority and bibliographic data…

Report of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (2008) Addressing expressed needs:

For […] architectural structures, there is no equivalent to ISBN or ISSN. Architectural structures have no such identifying system… an international and coordinated object identifier registry, could provide an efficient method of identifying objects and built works. Searching, record matching, clustering, and retrieval would be expedited and improved with a unique identifier system.

UCAI Final Project Report to the Mellon Foundation (2006) BWR project goals

 Construct a registry for architectural works and the built environment

 Develop unique IDs & trusted data records for registered works

 Reduce redundancy by providing a networked source of authoritative data

 Develop a collaborative community plan to seed, build upon and edit a shared record

Sample problem:

 Core data  Falling Water or Fallingwater  Kaufmann or Kauffman House  Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence or Kaufmann Desert House  Frank Lloyd Wright or Richard Neutra ?  Mill Run or Bear Run?

 Enhanced data  Geo-code  Dates  View  Type Sample data Content Field Name AVIADOR Harvard Cornell Avery ARTstor Title/Name of Building Fallingwater, Kaufmann Fallingwater, Edgar J. Falling Water, Edgar J. Fallingwater (Kaufmann Fallingwater, Edgar J. House Kaufmann House, Kaufmann Residence house). Kaufmann House, Kaufmann House Kaufmann House

Location Bear Run, (Pa.) Bear Run, Pennsylvania, Bear Run, PA, United Bear Run (Pennsylvania), Mill Run, Pennsylvania, United States States, North and Central United States United States America

Creator Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd One record with Ferriss, Hugh

Date 1935-1939 1934-1938 1935-1936 Work Type Vacation houses, Houses, houses House House Country Houses

Style/Period Modern Modernist Subject Summer houses; vacation Houses Dwellings, Houses, houses; terrace houses; Cantilevers, Waterfalls, hillside architecture Architecture—United States, National Historic Landmarks Program (U.S.), Architecture, Modern—20th century, Kaufmann, Edgar J., 1885-1955

Culture American American Description Modern Architecture

Other names Kaufmann, Edgar J. (patron) BWR & Shared Shelf Infrastructure Shared Shelf Commons Mixing local & ARTstor content BWR Cataloging environment

Shared Records

Cloud Computing Institutional repository (API) Asset management API

Web exhibitions (future)

Google Images Infrastructure & Tools BWR seed content “curation”

 Goal: registry of ~100,000 unique identified built works

 Identify, extract, & verify data from five sources:  Harvard’s Olivia 2.5M > 392,917 > 28,999 > 21,676  Cornell’s Pictor 24K > 13,847 > 3,421 > 2,301  Avery’s AVIADOR 40K > 4,878 > 3,713  Avery Index 650K records = subject term strings ~463,389 > ?  ARTstor 1.4M records = built work image records ~200,336 > 29623

Tracking seed collections

Metadata framework

 Schema . Core fields and an extended data model . BWR schema is subset of Shared Shelf’s work schema comprising 70 fields +/- . BWR core records require only three fields: Name, Location and Unique ID, although all seed collections have more

 Data dictionary . Provides guidelines for contributors

Container City: Nicholas Lacey and Partners, London Mapping seed collections to BWR schema Merging seed collections Shared Shelf enables data sharing. Users can draw down data from authority files as well as work records contributed by Shared Shelf and BWR contributing partners. Geo-location problem

Historic Campus Society of Architectural NYC Landmarks Avery Index to Collection Architecture Historians Architecture Preservation Architectural Project (HCAP) Resource Archive Commission Periodicals (SAHARA) (part 1)

Raw records 4045 14582 1442 13450

Built works 1759 2680 1248 1645

Street addresses / None 350 1149 few GIS coordinates Data schema ARTstor schema SAHARA schema MARC Avery A&I > MARC

Geo data status Addresses available, Rich data, problematic Rich data, minimal Bibliographic format, added by hand format for geo-location mediation city-state-country use; requires parsing necessary (typical BWR dataset). and research Basic parsing only

Time to enhance 10 hours 15 hours 1 hour ? Exploration of geo-location solutions

 Geo-location lightening talks with invited experts . UVa Press | Archipedia . GSAPP | Spatial Information Design Lab . NYPL | Digital Labs . Biodiversity Heritage Library  BWR Geo-location case studies with sample data sets . Columbia Library | GIS Librarians . GSAPP | Spatial Information Design Lab

Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion): Kyoto, Japan Case Study 1: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission . 1248 records . 1149 street addresses . ArcGIS /nyc.gov database . Open Street Map . no additional mediation . 80% mapped

. 1645 records . No street addresses . City – state – country . Google Earth Pro . 55-60% mapped Geo-location strategy

 Collection-by-collection protocols:

. Geo-data “hierarchical data block”

. ArcGIS processing with targeted databases

. Google Earth Pro, Open Street Map/MapQuest, LC

Taj Mahal: Agra, India Shared responsibility

Engage the community Build good data Set it free Sustain