Hi all, Our upcoming Research IT Reading Group topic is: Handling Sensitive Museum Data at UC Berkeley: the CollectionSpace Approach.
*When:* Thursday, February 11 from noon - 1pm *Where:* 200C Warren Hall, 2195 Hearst St (see building access instructions on parent page <https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/istrit/Research+IT+Reading+Group>). *Event format:* The reading group is a brown bag lunch (bring your own) with a short <20 min talk followed by ~40 min group discussion. *Presenter:* John Lowe, Research IT *Facilitator: *Chris Hoffman, Research IT Museum data is sensitive in the many of the same ways that financial and medical data is sensitive. When this data is stored in digital form it is vulnerable in the same way and may require the same safeguards. The value in making museum info available (either without restriction, i.e. publicly, or with restrictions, i.e. to researchers or via licensing) must be balanced against the interests and obligations of wider communities and the caretaking institutions. This presentation lays out a "taxonomy" of sensitive data types, with concrete examples mostly from UCB institutions (museums) using the CollectionSpace collection management system. The types presented include: - Financial info (e.g. details of valuations of art works and donors in the Smithsonian and BAMPFA art collection) - Intellectual Property info (e.g. restrictions on image sizes and IP-based access to images in BAMPFA art collection and BAMPFA Cinefiles film archive). - Physical Location of objects (e.g. physical locations of certain plants at the UCBG, locations and movement of objects at PAHMA and BAMPFA). - Provenance details, in particular Field Collection Place (e.g. locations of North American archeological sites and NAGPRA constraints at PAHMA, locations from which rare plants were obtained in UCJEPS and UCBG). - Cultural info (display of culturally-sensitive PAHMA images in public interfaces) - Other potentially sensitive info (incomplete or in-process records, records with known or suspected errors, etc.) ==== *Please review the following prior to our 2/11 meeting*: - The Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (ARPA) <http://www.nps.gov/archeology/tools/Laws/arpa.htm> - Bernadette G. Callery. 2005. “Patterns of identification of Potentially Sensitive Data in Natural history Museum online Catalogs <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1300/J141v07n01_07#.VrO4jlMrLBI>,” Journal of Internet Cataloging 7.1, 2005 DOI:10.1300/J141v07n01_07 pages 103-115 - Ensuring Confidentiality of Geocoded Health Data: Assessing Geographic Masking Strategies for Individual-Level Data <http://www.hindawi.com/journals/amed/2014/567049/> Optional reading: - About CollectionSpace <http://www.collectionspace.org/> - Use and Fair Use of images by art museums: - Association of Art Museum Directors. 2011. Policy on the Use of "Thumbnail" Digital Images in Museum Online Initiatives <https://aamd.org/sites/default/files/document/Thumbnail%20Images%20Policy.pdf>. January 19, 2011. - "The DAM copyright conundrum" (Henry Stewart Publications 2047-1300 (2015) Vol. 3, 3 207–221 Journal of Digital Media Management). Abstract only at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hsp/jdmm/2014/00000003/00000003/art00004 - Media derivatives in CollectionSpace - https://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Media+Service+RESTful+API - https://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Blob+Service+RESTful+API - Protection of infomation about Native American archeological sites - The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) <http://www.nps.gov/archeology/tools/Laws/NAGPRA.htm>, Reproduced from Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia, edited by Linda Ellis, Garland Publishing Co., New York and London, 2000. Francis P. McManamon - Valuation Information on and insurance of museum objects: - http://www.gallerysystems.com/bridging-the-object-component-divide/ - http://americanhistory.si.edu/press/fact-sheets/ruby-slippers
