lift every voice forum, online collecting
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Presentation I gave at the Lift Every Voice National Forum, Columbia, SC, May 16, 2013TRANSCRIPT
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People are Sharing
http://www.pewinternet.org/
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Why not use SM platform to collect?
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http://www.connectsc.org/
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Good Reasons to Collect Online
1. Collections can be large and more diverse in perspective and voices (in aggregate & individually).
2. Opportunity to collect greater variety of evidence beyond a narrated story through web interface: text, images + audio, video, other files.
3. Individuals decide what they want to share online.
4. Collected materials are discoverable & available to the public very quickly (immediately or soon after w/vetting).
5. Building community by building a new archive together, based on by shared experiences.
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Get Started
http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory
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Digital Memory Banking since the late-1990s
Outgrowth of oral projects
http://blackout.gmu.edu
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http://echo.gmu.edu
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http://911digitalarchive.org
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar
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http://hurricanearchive.org
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http://hurricanearchive.org/contribution
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http://braceroarchive.org
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http://omeka.org
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http://historypin.org
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Online collecting by Museums
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http://americanhistory.si.edu/agheritage
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Assessing a PlatformTo ensure sustainability, consider:• Metadata: Standardized schema (Ex: Dublin Core)• Scalability: large collections and broadly for multiple
file formats (text, images, video, audio)• Data portability: export in multiple data output
formats• Interoperability: communicates with archival, library
systems, w/ability to share content in other spaces• Usability: Intuitive user interface, simple & easy to
use• Accessibility: sight-impaired, & Mobile accessible• Open access: freely available for research, while also
giving contributors rights over their own contributions
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Challenges• Online submissions can contain less descriptive
metadata.
• Submissions vary in quality—and you can’t tamper with the original—because the variety of contributors building your new collection. You have to be comfortable with that variety.
• Use: will be wide and unpredictable.
• Project don’t run on their own:• Requires a dedicated institution w/a person who
maintains the site, vets contributions. • Requires dedicated outreach.
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Online Collecting as Web 1.5
“for all the potentialities of online collecting and democratizing the past, remember that any project still requires a great deal of analog hands-on history work.”
Why Collecting Online is Web 1.5: http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=47
• Even with these challenges, it is still a good approach.
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Many Civil Rights Projects, not collecting from public
• Lots!
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What is Next?• Any new collecting projects must be designed
mobile-first
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Design Mobile First: Responsive Design
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Distributed Collecting Approach
http://braceroarchive.org
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Community Resources
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Involving Students
http://historyharvest.unl.edu
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Lift Every Voice Can Share Every Voice