The Past's Present Future: Emerging Trends in Online Cultural Heritage

The Emerging Trends Past’s in Online Cultural Heritage On The Front Lines Present Illinois State Library March 16, 2010 Future Richard J. Urban 1

Everything old is new again. 2

From the World Wide Web to Web 2.0 WWW -‐ documents with simple rela6onships 3

Web 2.0 4

Here Comes Everybody! 5

Librarians, Archivists & Curators as authorities and gatekeepers. 7

Librarians, Archivists & Curators as community organizers Josh Greenberg, NYPL 8 hFp://www.slideshare.net/epistemographer/

Is this really new? •  Public libraries, historical societies have long served as community centers for local history, historic preservation & family history. •  Rootsweb created in 1987 as a listserv. •  Ancestry.com is now a multi-million dollar business because they were able to provide the online services this community needed. How can libraries, archives and museums translate their deep experience as community organizers into online spaces? 9

Serious Leisure 10

hFp://www.soci.ucalgary.ca/seriousleisure/ 11

Serious Leisure Careers •  Jenna Hartel: Three Temporal Arcs in the Hobby of Gourmet Cooking http://www.jennahartel.com/TemporalArcs/ThreeTemporalArcs.htm 12

Outside the Walls of the Museum Casual/project-based leisure 13

Citizen Science Amateur Science Activity Participation Collecting Volunteering Environmental http://ebird.org/ 14

Makers/Tinkers Project-‐based/serious leisure 15

Getting in the Flow 16

The importance of flow underlines recurrent themes: –  the library needs to be in the user environment and not expect the user to find their way to the library environment –  integration of library resources should not be seen as an end in itself but as a means to better integration with the user environment, with workflow. The message for libraries is clear: be in the flow. -Lorcan Dempsey 17 hFp://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000688.html

FRBR User Tasks Find Identify Select Obtain 18

Find hFp://imlsdcc.grainger.illinois.edu/history 19

Identify & Select 20

Obtain? 21

The Social Life of Artifacts* * Dan Cohen hFp://www.dancohen.org/media/ bard_talk_5feb2010.pdf 22

Follow Me! 23

“Spreadable” Content* 25

Sowing Culture hFp://sowingculture.wordpress.com/

Spread via Twitter •  Connect with us hFp://www.twiFer.com/sowingculture •  hFp://sowingculture.wordpress.com

IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study hFp://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/imlsdcc

Casual User Librarian/ Archivist/ Ar6fact Hobbyist Curator Academic Researcher 31

Local History @Internet Scale 32

IMLS DCC Collections by Hosting Institution State

Emerging Strengths - Local History New trolley tracks, Needham Corner, Main Street, Harôrd, October 2, 1902. Main Street south from Third Street, ca.1890 Los Angeles Downtown Springfield, 1952 Springfield Avia6on Company Main Ave., Durango, CO Oct. 1965 Tombrello Grocery Market 106 Main St. Birmingham, Alabama

Silos of the LAMS 35

Moving the Grain • Federated (Z39.50) • Aggregated (Open Archives Ini6a6ve – Protocol for Metadata Harves6ng 36

Linked Open Data • Linked simple statements with meaningful relationships that connect across the web • Open freely available for use, reference or reuse 37

Linked Open Data 38

Linked Open Data Archive Library Museum 39

The Web of Contexts Archive Library Museum 40

Brooklyn Museum API 41

Museum Pipes hFp://museumpipes.wordpress.com

Transparency 47

Indianapolis Museum of Art Dashboard hFp://dashboard.imamuseum.org 48

Opening History Dashboard hFp://www.richardjurban.net/dashboard 49

Get Started 50

Start Small & Grow Botany Photo of the Day http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/ 51

Participate! hFp://www.vam.ac.uk/collec6ons/tex6les/lawty/world_beach/ 52

Participate! hFp://www.vam.ac.uk/collec6ons/tex6les/lawty/world_beach/ 53

Organize! hFp://is.gd/aJbxf 54

Start Your Own 55

Explore Open Data hFp://usnris.freebase.com/ 56

Make the Connection 57

Next Steps •  Push vendors to make content “spreadable” •  Explore ways to make metadata & vocabularies open and linked. •  It’s not about “one” system, it’s about getting in the flow. 58

Challenges Ahead •  Changes happening outside…fast •  Changes that need to happen inside –  Rethinking what sharing means –  Mapping data across silos & services •  Dealing with abuse of information •  A culture of “permanent beta” –  Managing “brittle” services •  Who pays? –  How to measure public goods. 59

•  Richard J. Urban –  http://www.richardurban.net –  http://www.twitter.com/musebrarian –  rjurban [at] illinois.edu Portions of this work supported by: 60

Photo Credits •  Archival Photographic Files, [apf2-05961], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. •  Telephone Exchange, Anthony Hordern & Sons Department Store. Courtesy State Library of New South Wales http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/4275894278 •  Crowd listenting to Bryan – Union Sq. Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163099447/ •  Taft Speaking in Springfield, Mass. Courtesy Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2516566660/ •  Antal Dorati conducts. Courtesy State Library of New South Wales. http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3809422043/ •  Battle of the Alamo Re-enactors. Courtesy Txphotoblog http://www.flickr.com/photos/ txphotoblog/3766706634/ •  Aerial View of Downtown Springfield. Courtesy Lincoln Library http://www.flickr.com/photos/imlsdcc/4120299798/in/set-72157622842546196 •  Grain Elevators, Caldwell, Idaho. Courtesy Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178285893/ •  C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. Courtesy Library of Congress http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178405119/ •  Wagner Flagging Dawson. Courtesy Library of Congress •  Potted Arabidopsis 3 Courtesy blueridgekitties http://www.flickr.com/photos/blueridgekitties/4123295969/in/pool-botanypotd/ 61

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