http://www.slideshare.net/ http://www.slideshare.net/images/logo.gif http://www.slideshare.net/ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:49:41 GMT SlideShare feed for All Comments for malbooth /malbooth/miscellaneous-connections/v1?order=1 For a more detailed explanation about this presentation, see my blog: http://frommelbin.blogspot.com/2009/10/miscellaneous-connections.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:49:41 GMT malbooth/miscellaneous-connections/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/twitter-an-introduction-for-uts-teach-learning-committee/v1?order=1 Slideshare never manages to maintain all of the hyperlinks on uploading so here they all are, slide by slide: SLIDE #1 https://twitter.com/signup http://delicious.com/malbooth/twitter www.slideshare.net/malbooth SLIDE #3 http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/stephenfry http://search.twitter.com/ SLIDE #4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar’s_number SLIDE #5 http://tweetdeck.com/beta/download/ http://echofon.com/ http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/ http://bit.ly/ http://cotweet.com/ SLIDE #7 http://twitter.com/KevinRuddPM http://twitter.com/BarackObama http://twitter.com/SAlexander_UTS http://twitter.com/AnneBB http://twitter.com/search/users?q=UTS&category=people&source=find_on_twitter http://twitter.com/Twitter_Tips http://twitter.com/timoreilly Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:36:53 GMT malbooth/twitter-an-introduction-for-uts-teach-learning-committee/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/v1?order=1 You can now listen to the presentation here: http://www.information-online.com.au/sb_clients/iog/bin/iog_programme_video.cfm?video=malbooth Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:49:49 GMT malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /librarianidol/web-20-and-australian-libraries-presentation/v1?order=1 Cool presentation Andrew! Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:03:35 GMT librarianidol/web-20-and-australian-libraries-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/v1?order=1 And, you can now add Twitter to Slide #10. All done in 5 mins on my third last day with the assistance of our clever web developer. Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:28:38 GMT malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/v1?order=1 Thanks heaps, that is wonderful feedback! Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:18:40 GMT malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/v1?order=1 Heard good things about your presentation at our team meeting today... wish I could have been there. :) Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:24:31 GMT malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/1 librarianidol http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/v1?order=1 Yes! Totally agree on slide 9. It is great to see this attitude coming from an institution like the AWM. Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:38:46 GMT malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/1 pfctdayelise http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/v1?order=1 If only people had joined in on Slide #4! Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:26:01 GMT malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/v1?order=1 Slide 4: Look out, he's behind you! Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:28:12 GMT malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/1 paulhagon http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/v1?order=1 Thanks Jo, you are too kind! I like 'Imagine & Create' as additional librarian responsibilities in the digital age. We have to have advanced a bit beyond what librarians did 600 years ago by now. Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:53:16 GMT malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/v1?order=1 thanks so much for sharing your PP and vision. very impressive and encouraging, especially loved slide 9 fully intergrating digital dimension Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:09:14 GMT malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/1 jobeaz http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/v1?order=1 Unfortunately Slideshare still cannot get all hyperlinks to work in the presentations we upload. I've put in a help request about this ages ago and all they say is they are working on it. So, some of the hyperlinks used in this presentation do not work. Too bad, so sad. Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:52:14 GMT malbooth/digital-convergence-at-the-awm-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/presentation-for-vala-august-2008-presentation/v1?order=1 Link for Internet Archive: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/multimedia/2008/03/gallery_internet_archive Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:31:09 GMT malbooth/presentation-for-vala-august-2008-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/presentation-for-vala-august-2008-presentation/v1?order=1 Links used: http://www.awm.gov.au/diaries/ww1/ http://www.awm.gov.au/database/collection.asp Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:26:34 GMT malbooth/presentation-for-vala-august-2008-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/presentation-for-vala-august-2008-presentation/v1?order=1 Here are a few examples of the ways we’ve started using Web2.0 features to tour the web and put our content out well beyond our home website, reaching bigger social networks and engaging new audiences at the curatorial level. http://www.awm.gov.au/podcast/index.asp RSS underpins much of Web2.0, by allowing the public to select their subscriptions and then have them delivered to them on a regular basis. The links takes you to our podcasts page. This was our first foray with Web2.0 and RSS. http://apps.new.facebook.com/artshare/ We have just gone live with ArtShare - a program developed by Brooklyn Museum to allow for selected art works to be featured on Facebook profile pages. http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/2008/03/19/hmas-sydney/ http://frommelbin.blogspot.com/ The blogs have been the simplest, easiest to use model that has allowed our curators there own voice on the web about our collections and their work. WordPress is used by the Memorial and some of our staff use Blogger (externally). http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canberra-Australia/Australian-War-Memorial/7244252524 Facebook plunges us into growing social networks with more reach than we have and allows us to communicate with those more comfortable in that space. http://www.flickr.com/groups/awm/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/australianwarmemorial/ Flickr is also a two-way process allowing us to share images with everyone and to learn from the public’s visual pointers to their interests in us. http://www.youtube.com/user/AustWarMemorial YouTube is another vital way to engage a large audience interested in the moving image. We think it is important to re-use our content and provide interpretation of it on that large network. http://www.pictureaustralia.org/ We’ve long been a major contributor to Picture Australia, a fantastic portal to cultural images from NLA. It is a great model for further collaborative projects along the same lines. http://www.ning.com/ We use Ning internally as a social network platform to share ideas, learn about social media, discuss proposals and to help move projects forward. http://www.awm.gov.au/research/browse.asp And we’ve started using del.icio.us social bookmarking to leave muddy footprint trails across our large website for content that isn’t well exposed or that easy to find. We are still learning what del.icio.us can do for us. Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:25:03 GMT malbooth/presentation-for-vala-august-2008-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/presentation-for-vala-august-2008-presentation/v1?order=1 OK, some notes on this slide as not everything will be self-evident from the links or words (kinda clockwise from Commons): http://www.flickr.com/commons We have sent a list of our images to Flickr Commons and our institution is likely to be added on 11/11/08. http://creativecommons.org/international/au/ We are seriously looking at CreativeCommons attributions to cover content that we’ve developed for our presence on the web, so as to enable its appropriate re-use. http://buddypress.org/ As we use WordPress as our blogging platform, we will probably take a good look at BuddyPress when it goes live later in 2008. It may extend our blogs to become more of a hosted social network. http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Home_page Your Archives (from TNA in the UK) might offer us a good model to facilitate public contributions and a bit of personalisation relating to our archival collections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code PR codes might be used by us in several ways to facilitate the provision of packets of information to mobile devices with cameras in and the required software. We are looking at this now. http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/index.asp Currently we maintain our own military history encyclopedia and it is a pretty big drain on our own resources to keep adding new content, so maybe migrating the content to Wikipedia.org (and helping to manage it) or hosing a wiki where the community could contribute will work for us. http://go.footnote.com/thewall/ We really like the mash-up (linked) to the US Vietnam Veterans Memorial and we are trying to trial much the same thing with our Roll of Honour. Our trial will probably focus on the Korean War panels. Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:17:54 GMT malbooth/presentation-for-vala-august-2008-presentation/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/web20-digitisation-museums-and-chamber-orchestras/v1?order=1 Brilliant idea for collaboration for historians in Australia and across the world, I am keen to follow your work. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:17:02 GMT malbooth/web20-digitisation-museums-and-chamber-orchestras/1 etalbert http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /museumscomputergroup/catch-the-wind-digital-preservation-and-the-real-world/v1?order=1 Yes, to the first question and we are working towards a yes on the second. The implementation of a new Enterprise Content Management System at the AWM will give us (amongst other things) an integrated DAMS and a web content management system, facilitating both preservation and access to our digitised collections. We intend to head towards trusted digital repository certification and also intend to use preservation metadata within file formats that are based on recognised international standards. Having said that, much of this is still a moving target and frankly, I doubt anyone anywhere will ever meet all of the requirements. It is a worthy aim, but extremely difficult to attain given the scope and nature of our museum's collection which comprises everything from relics, art work, film and audio files to all of the formats found in library and archival collections. I think that this is where practitioners and participants differ from those engaged in theory and setting so-called "best-practice" standards. Thanks for sharing a great presentation. Thu, 01 May 2008 09:46:07 GMT museumscomputergroup/catch-the-wind-digital-preservation-and-the-real-world/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /museumscomputergroup/catch-the-wind-digital-preservation-and-the-real-world/v1?order=1 I agree whole-heartedly, but why is it that a lot of digitised cultural material in the UK seems only to be available to certain member institutions or universities or those who pay subscriptions? We provide our digitised content for free on www.awm.gov.au as a nationally funded cultural institution in Australia. We are also working hard right now to preserve it (see comments on slides #6, I think). I think the message of this slide and the rest of your presentation is spot on and consistent with what I have been saying in Australia for some years now. Digitisation programs in cultural institutions must be about BOTH access and preservation. Thu, 01 May 2008 09:37:45 GMT museumscomputergroup/catch-the-wind-digital-preservation-and-the-real-world/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /hblowers/from-avatars-to-advocacy/v1?order=1 thanks for sharing, it is a really useful slide show! loved the eight steps towards the end. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:33:05 GMT hblowers/from-avatars-to-advocacy/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/digitisation-workshop-pres-2008v1/v1?order=1 Some of the links used in this presentation haven't been picked up at all by slideshare, so you'll need to read the notes at the bottom of the screen as well. Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:25:54 GMT malbooth/digitisation-workshop-pres-2008v1/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-km-pres-2007/v1?order=1 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/information/#about http://dlib.anu.edu.au/ http://www.firstmonday.org/ http://orweblog.oclc.org/ http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/ http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:00:38 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-km-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 http://www.slideshare.net/slgavin/meet-charlie-what-is-enterprise20 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:13:29 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 Can openness to broader user involvement in things like folksonomies and wikis allow you to provide levels of description and context you’d only ever dreamed of? Is malicious intent really that big a risk and how do we know before we try it? Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:13:11 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 Digitisation of personal manuscripts and ephemera and certain old published records and histories – that challenge some issue such as orphaned and unpublished works & formatting considerations ECM – integrated management, findability and usability of all our digital content online – implementation will take at least two years and continue to evolve with our needs & technology Collaboration – beyond Picture Australia – NAA? NLA? ADB? Google? Museums Oz? Broadening your potential audience by tapping into larger networks available through links, partnerships, belonging If you put a few websites in here you may get the message: http://touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html Do you have to play by the (old) rules? Did we ever ask the public how they wanted us to catalogue things? Can openness to broader user involvement in things like folksonomies and wikis allow you to provide levels of description and context you’d only ever dreamed of? Is malicious intent really that big a risk and how do we know before we try it? Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:12:49 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 When we looked at our need for a DAMS, we quickly realised that it must facilitate access to its assets to the web and it therefore would need to talk to a web content management system (WCM) that will also facilitate distributed publishing for the web. As far as our museum is concerned, preserving things digitally and putting them into a management system is not the end of the story. In addition, people use web content, digital assets and other resources in many different forms of communication, publication and presentation. These outputs and other corporate records need to be managed by a central electronic document and records management system (EDRMS - which we do not have currently). Implementing those three integrated systems (DAMS, WCM & EDRMS ) meant that we were now looking at an ECM. Any DAMS must be easily able to service and operate with a number of other major corporate systems. We knew from the outset that in addition to the above basic system needs, we needed an automated Workflow, so that also became part of the ECM. And for many years here we have sought one central or 'federated' search application that would be able to allow users of our website to search for digitised content and catalogue records across our entire website. We currently provide our users with online access to a lot of content, but it is via several different repositories: tens of thousands of static pages; a museum content management system; a library management system; our National Archives catalogue ('RecordSearch'); and sundry digitised databases that provide biographical data as well as access to digitised unit diaries and (Australian) official histories from the major 20th century conflicts. Our federated search application will assist users to discover, browse and use what they want across our entire collection and all catalogues. Given all the work we've put into this and the challenges that we have identified but are still to confront I am now convinced we have done the right thing in terms of our future. It does seem that no one system was fully able to account comprehensively for our digital preservation needs in terms of off-the-shelf systems or software, but we have outlined what we need (in terms of a 'Trusted Digital Repository') and our implementation partners are now scoping a system accordingly. Dealing with preservation metadata will also prove to be a major challenge, but at least we will make a start in the right direction. Of course, the ECM just provides some system tools and I believe that we will still need human intervention from digital curators and conservators to manage these collections just as the more established professions manage our physical assets. Compromise is something we always wanted to limit, but it is going to be an issue we will need to deal with sensibly and practically if we are to make progress. Now, the products we have selected to use for this are as follows: The Interwoven ECM product suite we will use includes: WorkSite NT and Interwoven Records Manager (EDRMS), MediaBin (DAM), TeamSite (WCM), and Autonomy (Federated Search). Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:12:28 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 A couple of years ago, my colleagues in the National Collections branch were advocates for just getting a new DAMS up and running as we were almost frustrated by the lack of workflow and a permanent functioning DAMS that could store and manage what to us at least are large digital preservation programs in which we've invested relatively large amounts of time and resources. If you look through our website you'll probably find about 1.5 million pages of digitised records available through various databases as well as around 230,000 digital images of various collection objects from planes to photos and art images. Another complicating factor for us is that we must deal with three different management systems as we are a museum, a library and an archive and for various reasons there is no existing single system that can manage all of those collections. We were convinced by some wise IT colleagues here of the worth of looking at these challenges in a more strategic and holistic perspective. Consequently, we have opted to be a little more patient and head towards a full ECM. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:12:11 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 Use of blogs & why (decreasing institutional voice & revealing the people who work here; providing readable context; revealing hidden collection treasures; revealing and promoting our exhibitions and other activities)‏ Trusting staff and our curators to author, manage and administer blogs – is it THAT radical? Distributed authoring/generation of content as opposed to centralised control – those responsible writing the context! Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:11:54 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 RefTracker (ReQuest) ask-a-librarian and knowledge base application Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:11:36 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 Learning from what we use regularly or enjoy on the web Shopping – Amazon, CD Universe, LastMinute.com, dendy.com.au News – Google, abc.net.au, Nine MSN, blogs Free stuff – open source software – Quicktime, Firefox, OpenOffice, webmail (Yahoo, Gmail, etc.)‏ Search – Google, All Homes, drive.com.au, IMDB Services – banking, BPay, White Pages, Pay Pal Web 2.0 – Wikipedia, wikis, blogs, SlideShare, del.icio.us, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube Hobby sites & Family history Work-related journals – DLib, OCLC/RLG Digi News, Ariadne, First Monday Broaden your potential audience by tapping into larger networks available through links, partnerships, belonging & Collaboration I agree with Lynne Brindley that debating the definition and utility of various Web 2.0 technologies isn’t at all useful. Just find something you think you can use and start. I am very sceptical of the need for risk assessment with this cheap, friendly and easy to use technology. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:10:36 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 We don’t advertise this, but our copying service used to only provide paper copies. We phased out the old photocopiers and replaced them with ‘multi-function devices’ that can scan and copy and set out to provide digital copies where convenient to both the client and ourselves. Now 90% of on demand copying from our archives is digital and therefore requires no re-scanning. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:10:10 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 Ready to go context Provided in its original visual form – why re-invent the wheel or force someone to look at ugly HTML pages? Original indexes have proved adequate User tagging of content being considered Good example of a cheap project that delivered an ongoing popular service without being even 95% accurate from an OCR perspective Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:09:52 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 Digitisation of personal manuscripts and ephemera and certain old published records and histories – that present challenges such as orphaned and unpublished works & special format considerations (eg. bound documents). Shown here a 48th Battalion Patrol Book from WW1. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:09:33 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 Shown here a 10th Light Horse Regiment diary page from 1 October 1918 recording the entry of this unit into Damascus. These were very enthusiastically greeted when they went online earlier in 2007. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:09:01 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 TIFF or JPEG; 300 or 600 dpi; metadata (nobody is perfect)‏ In-house or outsource – experiment & learn The preservation principle (use-neutral scanning) – there are always exceptions/compromises (eg. captured Japanese documents)‏ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:08:16 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 Delivering! (leading by example)‏ Users just want the stuff, so give it to them and make sure they can find it and use it. Participating in new solutions (ECM, wikis, blogs, podcasts)‏ Avoiding missed opportunities Learning to compromise – adjust targets and use good enough when appropriate (the 80:20 principle)‏ Not everything can happen at once, so prioritise and be patient The rest of the world won’t wait and it isn’t appropriate for us to make them wait for our content (nobody is really that unique)‏ Positioning yourself to be able to take advantage of advances in IT – getting over the initial sea-sickness and becoming used to the dynamism of info technology and the opportunities in economies of scale and ‘commoditisation’ Embracing Openness Searchability & findability Sharing & cooperating with others (nobody has everything)‏ Creative Commons? Free content Innovate or die! Experiment & make a few mistakes – learn from them Don’t just be restricted to what others have done with new technologies – digitised content, podcasts, blogs, wikis, search, SlideShare, Del.icio.us, Google, etc. Surprise your users! Anticipate their needs and give them something they don’t even know they want yet. Don’t ask users what they want – it is like driving in the rear view mirror. Keep in touch with them and understand their needs. People never do what they say they will do, so don’t ask them, prototype solutions as early as possible. Don't be a slave to all the old rules – some are now irrelevant or obsolescent. Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:07:19 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/v1?order=1 Links used in this presentation: **AWM home page http://www.awm.gov.au/ **Units diaries online http://www.awm.gov.au/diaries/ **Private records currently online (eg) http://www.awm.gov.au/findingaids/process.asp?collection=... **Official Histories online http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/index.asp **ReQuest http://www.altarama.com.au/awm/reft000.aspx **Blogs: **http://blog.awm.gov.au/1917/ **http://blog.awm.gov.au/lambert/ **http://blog.awm.gov.au/focus/ **http://blog.awm.gov.au/lawrence/ **http://blog.awm.gov.au/lawrence/ **Encyclopedia http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/index.htm **War Memorials Australia http://www.skp.com.au/memorials2/default.htm **Podcasts feed (RSS) http://www.awm.gov.au/podcast/index.asp Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:05:17 GMT malbooth/info-services-conference-pres-2007/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 When we looked at our need for a DAMS, we quickly realised that it must facilitate access to its assets to the web and it therefore would need to talk to a web content management system (WCM) that will also facilitate distributed publishing for the web. As far as our museum is concerned, preserving things digitally and putting them into a management system is not the end of the story. In addition, people use web content, digital assets and other resources in many different forms of communication, publication and presentation. These outputs and other corporate records need to be managed by a central electronic document and records management system (EDRMS - which we do not have currently). Implementing those three integrated systems (DAMS, WCM & EDRMS ) meant that we were now looking at an ECM. Any DAMS must be easily able to service and operate with a number of other major corporate systems. We knew from the outset that in addition to the above basic system needs, we needed an automated Workflow, so that also became part of the ECM. And for many years here we have sought one central or 'federated' search application that would be able to allow users of our website to search for digitised content and catalogue records across our entire website. We currently provide our users with online access to a lot of content, but it is via several different repositories: tens of thousands of static pages; a museum content management system; a library management system; our National Archives catalogue ('RecordSearch'); and sundry digitised databases that provide biographical data as well as access to digitised unit diaries and (Australian) official histories from the major 20th century conflicts. Our federated search application will assist users to discover, browse and use what they want across our entire collection and all catalogues. Given all the work we've put into this and the challenges that we have identified but are still to confront I am now convinced we have done the right thing in terms of our future. It does seem that no one system was fully able to account comprehensively for our digital preservation needs in terms of off-the-shelf systems or software, but we have outlined what we need (in terms of a 'Trusted Digital Repository') and our implementation partners are now scoping a system accordingly. Dealing with preservation metadata will also prove to be a major challenge, but at least we will make a start in the right direction. Of course, the ECM just provides some system tools and I believe that we will still need human intervention from digital curators and conservators to manage these collections just as the more established professions manage our physical assets. Compromise is something we always wanted to limit, but it is going to be an issue we will need to deal with sensibly and practically if we are to make progress. Now, the products we have selected to use for this are as follows: The Interwoven ECM product suite we will use includes: WorkSite NT and Interwoven Records Manager (EDRMS), MediaBin (DAM), TeamSite (WCM), and Autonomy (Federated Search). Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:28:29 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 A couple of years ago, my colleagues in the National Collections branch were advocates for just getting a new DAMS up and running as we were almost frustrated by the lack of workflow and a permanent functioning DAMS that could store and manage what to us at least are large digital preservation programs in which we've invested relatively large amounts of time and resources. If you look through our website you'll probably find about 1.5 million pages of digitised records available through various databases as well as around 230,000 digital images of various collection objects from planes to photos and art images. Another complicating factor for us is that we must deal with three different management systems as we are a museum, a library and an archive and for various reasons there is no existing single system that can manage all of those collections. We were convinced by some wise IT colleagues here of the worth of looking at these challenges in a more strategic and holistic perspective. Consequently, we have opted to be a little more patient and head towards a full ECM. Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:25:45 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 Links used in this presentation: AWM home page http://www.awm.gov.au/ Units diaries online http://www.awm.gov.au/diaries/ Private records currently online (eg) http://www.awm.gov.au/findingaids/process.asp?collection=private&item=100days Official Histories online http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/index.asp ReQuest http://www.altarama.com.au/awm/reft000.aspx Blogs http://blog.awm.gov.au/1917/ http://blog.awm.gov.au/lambert/ http://blog.awm.gov.au/focus/ http://blog.awm.gov.au/lawrence/ http://blog.awm.gov.au/lawrence/ Encyclopedia http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/index.htm War Memorials Australia http://www.skp.com.au/memorials2/default.htm Podcasts feed (RSS) http://www.awm.gov.au/podcast/index.asp Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:25:41 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 Avoiding missed opportunities •Learning to compromise – adjust targets and use good enough when appropriate (the 80:20 principle) •The rest of the world won’t wait and it isn’t appropriate for us to make them wait for our content (nobody is really that unique) •Positioning yourself to be able to take advantage of advances in IT – getting over the initial sea-sickness and becoming used to the dynamism of info technology and the opportunities in economies of scale and ‘commoditisation’ •Mapping out a thousand issues or reasons not to digitise, eg. the scale of the problem, lack of standards, storage needs, broadband speeds, inequality of access, expense, technological challenges isn’t helpful at all. It just delays the inevitable and prevents you from learning and gaining useful experience with this technology. Is IT your weakest link? •Do they say yes before no? •Do they always have at least six great reasons not to do anything? •Will they respond with ‘What a great idea! How can we help?’ •Are they partners/allies in your quest or running interference? •How can you help turn them around? •Remember: Technologists care about technology — users care about content Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:57:13 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 Ready to go context Provided in its original visual form – why re-invent the wheel or force someone to look at ugly HTML pages? Original indexes have proved adequate User tagging of content being considered Good example of a cheap project that delivered an ongoing popular service without being even 95% accurate from an OCR perspective Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:16:00 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 Can openness to broader user involvement in things like folksonomies and wikis allow you to provide levels of description and context you’d only ever dreamed of? Is malicious intent really that big a risk and how do we know before we try it? Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:15:20 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 Our use of blogs & reasons why (promoting activities and informing people about exhibitions; decreasing institutional voice & revealing the people who work here; providing readable context; revealing hidden collection treasures; revealing and promoting our exhibitions and other activities) Trusting staff and our curators to author, manage and administer blogs – is it THAT radical? Distributed authoring/generation of content as opposed to centralised control – those responsible writing the context! Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:14:56 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 We also have extensive image digitisation programs covering our photographs collection and to provide digital images of our art and military heraldry and technology collections, but in this presentation I have concentrated on the paper based library and archival collections and innovative services on our website. We have made a decent start on digitising our sound collection and are currently considering the digitisation of our film collection Shown here clockwise from the left: new professional visual editing workstations; high resolution scanners; high resolution large format digital printers Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:14:52 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 RefTracker (ReQuest) ask-a-librarian and knowledge base application Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:14:26 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 TIFF or JPEG; 300 or 600 dpi; metadata (nobody is perfect) In-house or outsource – experiment & learn The preservation principle (use-neutral scanning) – there are always exceptions/compromises (eg. captured Japanese documents - scanned at a lower resolution for speed of delivery) Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:14:13 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 We don’t really advertise this, but our copying service used to only provide paper copies. We phased out the old photocopiers and replaced them with ‘multi-function devices’ that can scan and copy and set out to provide digital copies where convenient to both the client and ourselves. Now 90% of on demand copying from our archives is digital and therefore requires no re-scanning. Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:12:32 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 Learning from what we use regularly or enjoy on the web: . Shopping – Amazon, CD Universe, LastMinute.com, dendy.com.au . News – Google, abc.net.au, Nine MSN, blogs . Free stuff – open source software – Quicktime, Firefox, OpenOffice, webmail (Yahoo, Gmail, etc.) . Search – Google, All Homes, drive.com.au, IMDB . Services – banking, BPay, White Pages, Pay Pal . Web 2.0 – Wikipedia, wikis, blogs, SlideShare, del.icio.us, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube . Hobby sites & Family history . Work-related journals – DLib, RLG Digi News, Ariadne, First Monday Innovate or die! . Experiment & make a few mistakes – learn from them . Don’t just be restricted to what others have done with new technologies – digitised content, podcasts, blogs, wikis, search, SlideShare, Del.icio.us, Google, etc. . Surprise your users! Give them something they don’t even know they want yet. . Don’t ask users what they want – it is like driving in the rear view mirror. Keep in touch with them and understand their needs. . People never do what they say they will do, so don’t ask them, prototype solutions as early as possible. . Broadening your potential audience by tapping into larger networks available through links, partnerships, belonging I agree with Lynne Brindley that debating the definition and utility of various Web 2.0 technologies isn’t at all useful. Just find something you think you can use and start. I am very sceptical of the need for risk assessment with this cheap, friendly and easy to use technology. Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:12:05 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 Digitisation of personal manuscripts and ephemera and certain old published records and histories – that present challenges such as orphaned and unpublished works & special format considerations (eg. bound documents). Shown here a 48th Battalion Patrol Book from WW1. Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:06:22 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment /malbooth/apla-conference-pres/v1?order=1 Shown here a 10th Light Horse Regiment diary page from 1 October 1918 recording the entry of this unit into Damascus. These were very enthusiastically greeted when they went online earlier in 2007. Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:05:44 GMT malbooth/apla-conference-pres/1 malbooth http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/comment