Academic Library 2.0: Learning From Flickr

academic library 2.0 interface or learning from flick r steve lawson, humanities librarian colorado college, colorado springs <slawson@coloradocollege.edu> <http://stevelawson.name/seealso/>

hello

there is no such thing as academic library 2.0 and this is a preconference about it apologies to Steven Shapin

the world wide web experience

the digital library experience

images are for use

flickr.com

disclaimer: porn happens

tags URLs comments & notes feeds API

tags

sunset, blooms, ocean, beach, tide pools, plage, oc éan Half Moon Bay, HMB, Earth Day Into the Sun, HDR, wide angle, 24mm 500plus20, top-f25 Earth Day Embrace by jurvetson on Flickr

the del.icio.us lesson: “ personal value precedes network value” -Joshua Porter

useless?

social software is stuff that gets spammed Clay Shirky

URLs

Flickr URL: http://flickr.com/photos/theparadigmshifter/436729333/ (54 characters)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theparadigmshifter/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theparadigmshifter/tags/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theparadigmshifter/tags/denver/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/denver/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/

American Memory URL: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hawp:2:./temp/~ammem_iw2d::@@@mdb=mcc,gottscho,detr,nfor,wpa,aap,cwar,bbpix,cowellbib,calbkbib,consrvbib,bdsbib,dag,fsaall,gmd,pan,vv,presp,varstg,suffrg,nawbib,horyd,wtc,toddbib,mgw,ncr,ngp,musdibib,hlaw,papr,lhbumbib,rbpebib,lbcoll,alad,hh,aaodyssey,magbell,bbcards,dcm,raelbib,runyon,dukesm,lomaxbib,mtj,gottlieb,aep,qlt,coolbib,fpnas,aasm,scsm,denn,relpet,amss,aaeo,mffbib,afc911bib,mjm,mnwp,rbcmillerbib,molden,ww2map,hawp,omhbib,rbaapcbib,mal,ncpsbib,ncpm,lhbprbib,ftvbib,afcreed,aipn,cwband,flwpabib,wpapos,cmns,psbib,pin,coplandbib,svybib,mmorse,afcwwgbib,mymhiwebib,uncall,mfd,afcwip,mtaft,manz,llstbib,fawbib,berl,fmuever,cdn,upboverbib,mussm,cic,afcpearl,awh,awhbib,sgp,wright,lhbtnbib,afcesnbib,hurstonbib,mreynoldsbib,spaldingbib,sgproto,cola,tccc,curt,mharendt,lhbcbbib,eaa,haybib,mesnbib,fine,cwnyhs (852 characters)

ContentDM URL: http://contentdm.nitle.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/soc&CISOPTR=88&REC=140 (79 characters)

comments & notes

feeds

feeds Surround and penetrate social software and bind the World Wide Web together -Jason Griffey / Obi-Wan Kenobi

every page its feed

API

if it doesn’t have an API, it’s not worth having – Roy Tennant

doing things with flickr

Library of Congress on Flickr

doing things like flickr

NYPL Digital Gallery

Omeka (example: Hurricane Digital Memory Bank)

what do we lack?

single-minded devotion

programmers

critical mass screenshot: 12 Nov. 2006

critical mass screenshot: 22 May 2007

critical mass screenshot: 16 Oct 2008

tagging ≠ panacea Ann Arbor District Library LibraryThing

understanding our users

“ the end” created using spell with flickr

image credits

“ cloudythinking” by Flickr user joblesslibrarian http://flickr.com/photos/68149505@N00/374076098/ license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0

“ Rote Flora” by Flickr user aemkei http://flickr.com/photos/aemkei/238401109/ license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0

“ at least things seemed normal” by Flickr user gadjoboy http://flickr.com/photos/gadjoboy/265044816/ license: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

Ranganathan trading card by Jessamyn West http://flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/66817517/ license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 (used with permission)

“ Ranganathan has a posse” by Aaron Schmidt, http://walkingpaper.org/128

image credits

“ www.dirtydomains.com” by Laura Croton http://www.universes-in-universe.de/columna/col52/img/img-01-b.jpg

“ Earth Day Embrace” by Flickr user jurvetson http://flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/134466058/ license: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

“ grafitti NY” by Flickr user peterkellystudios http://flickr.com/photos/peterkellystudios/186867144/ license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0

“ garden of the gods VII” by Flickr user theparadigmshifter http://flickr.com/photos/theparadigmshifter/436729333/ license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0

“ Gateway, Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak” photo by L.C. McClure, Denver, http://memory.loc.gov [no permalink]

image credits

“ Fresh Well Water” by Flickr user Eileen Delhi http://flickr.com/photos/eileendelhi/46652648/ license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0

“ Arena Chapel Satan” uploaded by Rebecca Tucker http://www.flickr.com/photos/70979005@N00/103151479/ (viewable only by Flickr friends)

“ All-Night Coding with TabascoEye” by Flickr user phil_fry http://flickr.com/photos/phil_fry/24491181/ license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 (used with permission)

“ 240 cobalt contacts: Flickr Tour 21” by Flickr user cobalt123, http://flickr.com/photos/cobalt/47205258/ license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0