Sonet Demonstration LiveMemories 26 11 09

Semantic Enrichment of Memory Archives Case Study on Jurka.net Michela Ferron e Paolo Massa, SoNet - FBK

A case study: Why?
LiveMemories objectives (besides the scientific and technical ones):
To have social and cultural impact
The goal of the case study is to:
assess which web platforms people in Trentino would use for sharing memories, and how
collect memories from the local community and suggest how LiveMemories techniques can enrich them

Identify a specific community of people
Test different ways in which they might share memories, both
Offline: interviews, events, collection of memories in a photo format
Online: providing web tools (Flickr, Facebook, website)
and report how they used them, and what was most successful
Imagine what kind of web services LM could offer to enrich memory archives
Main activities

A case study: What?
We chose to investigate
the collection of memories
the fostering of a community
the potential value of LiveMemories services
In a local community: geographically limited, where the memories refer to a well defined place:
The district of San Bartolomeo

San Bartolomeo: Where?
City district at the south of Trento
Photos and map: Portobeseno and Archivio "Quei de san bortol"

San Bartolomeo: Why?
History:
built in the 50s at the periphery of Trento with the public housing law Fanfani (1949)
the first 13 buildings called “Le Palafitte”: more than 100 families
Photos: and audio Portobeseno and Archivio "Quei de san bortol"

Recent years:
progressive depopulation that concerned the home-born inhabitants
Photo: Dino Panato - Archivio "Quei de san bortol" Trentino Viale dei Tigli, palafitte vuote per Natale 5 novembre 2005 Trentino Viale dei Tigli, le vecchie palafitte si svuotano 23 marzo 2004

Recent years:
Photo: Dino Panato - Archivio "Quei de san bortol" L'Adige Trento, parte la demolizione delle «palafitte» 03 Nov 2006 L'Adige Palafitte di viale dei Tigli, cominciata la demolizione 03 Nov 2006

Recent years:
Photo: Dino Panato - Archivio "Quei de san bortol" Trentino Viale dei Tigli, cadono altre tre «palafitte» 23 agosto 2007 Trentino Viale dei Tigli, ecco il nuovo quartiere 01 ottobre 2008

Recent years:
populated by the students of the University of Trento, who live in the students residence of the Opera Universitaria.
Photos: Portobeseno and Opera Universitaria

50s
60 years of memories First buildings “ le palafitte” Source: Opera Universitaria and Trentino New students residence 2007 2006 demolition starts 2008 Aida Ruffini (Itea) presents the first draft of the project for the new district

Bring together two different perspectives on the same district memories to meet and to confront each other
Bring up to life the historical origins of the district
Localized around the district (management and control)
Photos: Portobeseno , ACLI and "Quei de san bortol“ Archive

San Bartolomeo: Who?
A joint work with:

San Bartolomeo: How?
How to involve people and students in the collections of memories about San Bartolomeo?
We reached:
the people who lived in the San Bartolomeo district in the 50s
students who live in the San Bartolomeo students residence
Photos: Portobeseno , "Quei de san bortol“ and Opera Universitaria Archive

San Bartolomeo: How?
And involved them in the collection of memories:
Online
Offline
Interviews
Events in the students residence
Photos collection

San Bartolomeo: Offline activities
Audio and video interviews to 20 people among students and people who lived in the district
Events in the students residence
19th of May : public event at the students residence with students and home-born inhabitants with photos exhibition (by the photo association TrentoAsa)
9th of June : public presentation of Jurka.net in the occasion of the 500 issues of the magazine "Studiare a Trento"
Historical photo-archives collection

San Bartolomeo: Online activities
l'Opera group:
driven by students collaborating with Opera Universitaria to communicate activities related to the university life
born in April 2009
63 messages, 6 discussions (20 messages between May and June)
344 members
33 photos

Facebook page Jurka.net :
driven by Jurka.net administrators
born the 2nd of November 2009
11 messages and 18 feedbacks
389 fans

Opera Futura 2007 (139 photos): on the students residence opening days
Historical photos (150 photos): from people living in the district in the 50s
Quei de san Bortol archive by “quei de san Bortol group” (49)
San Bortol rock archive by “quei de san Bortol group” (40)
Le palafitte di San Bartolomeo by “quei de san Bortol group” (32)
ACLI archive by “ACLI association” (28 photos)

San Bartolomeo group on Flickr:
23 members
86 photos of the district (group members went in the district and took photos)
Photos: tagged and with comments
Photo: Portobeseno

San Bartolomeo: Online activities www.jurka.net
A website (started in June)
to promote the students participation in the university life
to provide a different tool for the collection of memories about the San Bartolomeo district

The websites collects:
Appuntamenti : news, events, grants and other opportunities for students
Voci : web radio in streaming with radio programmes and other news
Punto Net : aggregator of social network activities
Micromondi : literary blog for students
LiveMemories : photos, audio & video files, newspaper articles, and stories of both students and home-born inhabitants of the district

San Bartolomeo: www.livememories.jurka.net
LiveMemories :
Login
Share memories

LiveMemories services on Jurka.net
What could LiveMemories do for online communities, or websites related to memories?
2 examples:
On video files :
RTTR video
PerVoice transcription
LiveMemories enriched transcriptions
On blog-posts :
studiare … e vivere a Trento - Veronica's story
LiveMemories enriched Veronica's story

Conclusions: Lessons learned
Little participation on Jurka.net
Difficult to start an online community from scratch
Even if home-born inhabitants are very motivated!
Motivation alone is not enough
They need to learn a new language, new forms of communication and interaction, new tools
Even if students participated in offline events, they didn’t post memories on jurka.net

Conclusions: Lessons learned
Easier to exploit already existing online communities (Facebook, Flickr, …)
people already online and connected
they just need the right trigger to start collecting memories
Is this the future direction?

Thank you! Photos: Portobeseno , "Quei de san bortol“ Archive

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