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Blogs, Wikis, & Flickr, Oh My!: Sharing & Collaborating on the Modern Web<br />NGS FAMILY HISTORY CONFERENCE, 2009<br />Raleigh, NC<br />JORDAN JONES<br />E-mail: jordan@genealogymedia.com<br />Web: genealogymedia.com<br />Blog: genealogymedia.com/blog/<br />

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Roadmap<br />Concepts (Social Networking, Tagging, Collaborative Authoring, Syndication) <br />Value for Genealogists (How Genealogists Use Social Networking?)<br />Facebook<br />Wikis (Wikipedia and Genealogy-Specific Wikis) <br />Interactive Maps (Google, Yahoo and Map-Image Integration)<br />Social Networking with Images (Flickr and Footnote) <br />Book and Library Lists … And the Rest <br />Privacy and Copyright<br />2<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />2<br />

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Social Networking<br />On the modern web, people are sharing information and collaborating in new ways …<br />

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Social Networking<br />Social networking is the creation of <br />User-defined online communities<br />Websites containing shared content contributed by the users<br />Social connections among users <br />Key social networking sites include:<br />MySpace<br />Facebook <br />Flickr <br />YouTube <br />4<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />4<br />

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Concept: Tagging<br />Tagging means categorizing content, especially images and video, with user-defined category names, called tags <br />Tags allow me, or anyone I share this image with, to find it using any one of the tags, as well as to find any shared content that someone has described with those tags <br />Collaborative tagging across an online community leads to the creation of what has been called folksonomies<br />5<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />5<br />

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Tagging Example<br />I have tagged a death certificate on Flickr as follows: <br />genealogy <br />birthcertificate <br />delayedbirthcertificate<br />helenjohnson<br />johnson<br />hill<br />6<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />6<br />

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Concept: Collaborative Authoring<br />Weblogs (Blogs) – Simple, powerful publishing tools<br />Wikis or Forums – Content developed and shared by the users <br />Wikipedia<br />Threaded conversations<br />7<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />7<br />

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Concept: Syndication<br />On the web, content can be syndicated similar to the model in periodical publishing<br />Real Simple Syndication (RSS) and Atom– Notification of website or blog changes using content feeds<br />Blog Readers and Aggregators– GoogleReader, Bloglines <br />8<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />8<br />

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How Can Genealogists Use Social Networking?<br />The tools are there; we can determine how we use them<br />

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As Genealogists, Why Should We Care?<br />Archive, organize, and retain your documents, information, and images<br />Share your interests, research, and documents with others, as you choose<br />Contribute to knowledge and dissemination of genealogical information<br />Make and retain contacts among genealogists <br />10<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />10<br />

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Facebook<br />The Uber Social Networking Site <br />or Simply a Time Suck?<br />

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Controlling Privacy Settings in Facebook<br />12<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />12<br />

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Footnote’s “I Remember” Facebook Integration<br />13<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />13<br />

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That Same Page on Footnote<br />14<br />

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Wikis<br />Wikipedia and Genealogy-Specific Wikis<br />

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Wikis<br />Wikis are named after the Hawaiian Pidgin word “wiki” or “quick”; their goal is to provide collaborative authoring portals that are:<br />Quick<br />Easy<br />Scalable<br />Version-managed<br />Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/ is the most complete encyclopedia available, with more than 2.8 million articles<br />16<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />16<br />

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Wikipedia for Genealogists<br />Wikipedia is an excellent source of:<br />Accurate and complete information and links to other sources<br />Wikipedia has been shown to be as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica. (Both have approx. 2 errors per article.)<br />Wikipedia contains a much wider range of articles than standard print encyclopedias<br />New and revised articles are subject to peer review<br />Public access maps and images, with clear Creative Commons copyright notices<br />17<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />17<br />

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Caveat Emptor<br />Critically evaluate the source and its producer for bias and relevance<br />Trust only sourced materials; use others for ideas and leads, but not to establish facts <br />There have been noted cases of authors maliciously inserting incorrect information <br />18<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />18<br />

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Collaboration in Wikipedia<br />Anyone can correct or complete articles about people, places, and events about which you have become an expert<br />Anyone can share images, documents, or documentation with an audience of over 600 million annual visitors<br />19<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />19<br />

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A Wikipedia Example<br />Battle of Guilford Court House<br />

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Wikipedia: Article Tab<br />21<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />21<br />

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Wikipedia: Article Tab<br />22<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />22<br />

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Wikipedia: Article Tab<br />23<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />23<br />

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Wikipedia: Talk Tab<br />Wikipedia entries often contain a Talk Tab to encourage collaboration across whole categories of content, or discuss issues with the entry<br />24<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />24<br />

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Wikipedia: Editing Tab<br />Wikipedia markup can be daunting, but most of the writing is in plain language<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />25<br />

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Wikipedia: History Tab<br />Wikipedia entries contain detailed editorial history, allowing for roll-backs if content is deprecated<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />26<br />

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Wikipedia: Documentation<br />Wikipedia pages often contain detailed sourcing<br />27<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />27<br />

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Wikipedia: Image<br />Wikipedia images often contain detailed licensing information<br />28<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />28<br />

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Genealogy Wikis<br />Geni, FamilyPedia, WeRelate and WikiTree<br />

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Genealogy Wikis<br />WeRelate.org – Developed by the Foundation for On-Line Genealogy (http://www.folg.org/) and hosted in collaboration with the Allen Co. Library. <br />FamilyPedia: http://genealogy.wikia.com/<br />wikitree.org – An attempt to create a tree of everyone <br />Geni: http://www.geni.com/<br />30<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />30<br />

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WeRelate – Family Page<br />31<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />31<br />

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WeRelate – Place Page<br />32<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />32<br />

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FamilyPedia – Surnames Page<br />33<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />33<br />

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Interactive Maps<br />Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and Map-Image Integration<br />

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Interactive Mapping – maps.google.com <br />35<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />35<br />

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Google Maps – Picasa Integration<br />36<br />

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Yahoo Maps – Flickr Integration<br />37<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />37<br />

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Yahoo Maps – Flickr Integration<br />38<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />38<br />

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Social Networking with Images<br />Flickr and Footnote<br />

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Image and Document Sharing<br />Genealogists often have many photographs and document images that they would like to share<br />Flickr.com– A very popular photography site owned by Yahoo<br />Footnote.com– Records and photos site that allows uploads and annotations <br />DeadFred.com– For known and unknown photos taken before 1960 of persons since deceased. They bill themselves as a “genealogy photo archive”<br />FindAGrave.com – Site for tombstone transcriptions and photos <br />40<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />40<br />

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Flickr<br />Free photo storage and sharing, additional features for an annual fee<br />The most used photo sharing site on the web<br />Similar sites include: <br />Picasa (Google) –picasa.google.com<br />Shutterfly –shutterfly.com<br />Snapfish (HP) –snapfish.com<br />Aside from Google Maps integration, which is easier with Google’s Picasa, I prefer Flickr to all the other choices. It’s easier to use, more powerful, and provides Creative Commons licensing<br />41<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />41<br />

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Flickr – Photo Collections (Groups of Sets) <br />42<br />

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Flickr – Set<br />43<br />

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Flickr – Tagging <br />Tagging is part of the folksonomies (classification systems designed by amateurs) movement<br />Users define the taxonomy<br />The taxonomy changes over time<br />Tags can help you organize your images, but also help you find work by others<br />44<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />44<br />

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Flickr – Tagging Example<br />45<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />45<br />

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Flickr – Tags and Clusters<br />46<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />46<br />

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Flickr – Photostream (Tag-Based Sharing)<br />Different photos tagged “genealogy” show up on my website each time the page is loaded <br />47<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />47<br />

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DeadFred – Unknown Subject <br />48<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />48<br />

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DeadFred – Known Subject <br />49<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />49<br />

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Footnote – Annotation of Documents<br />50<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />50<br />

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Footnote – Sharing Your Documents<br />51<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />51<br />

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Book and Library Lists … <br />And the Rest<br />LibraryThing and Others<br />

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Book Lists<br />Share lists of books you own, are reading or would like to own, swap books in real life<br />BookCrossing.com – A sort of catch-and-release program for books<br />BookMooch.com– Share a book, receive a book <br />LibraryThing.com, GoodReads.com andShelfari.com– Share your library, find others with similar books, review books<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />53<br />

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LibraryThing – List <br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />54<br />

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LibraryThing – Shelf <br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />55<br />

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LibraryThing – Tag Cloud<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />56<br />

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And the rest …<br />Contact Sharing, Link Sharing, Print-on-DemandPlus … Contact Sharing, Link Sharing and Print-on-Demand <br />

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Contacts<br />Especially handy to keep in touch with or find distant family members or other researchers<br />Plaxo.com– Address book management<br />LinkedIn.com– Address book management, especially used in business <br />Facebook.com– Often a college-age crowd. Becoming more “social” all the time, recently added a family tree plug-in<br />Twitter.com– Site for sharing of brief statements. Becoming a place where people get quick answers.<br />58<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />58<br />

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Link Sharing<br />Sites for link sharing can be set up to focus solely on your genealogy links<br />digg.com<br />delicious.com<br />59<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />59<br />

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Delicious.com – genealogy Tag<br />60<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />60<br />

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Print-on-Demand (PoD) Books<br />Websites and desktop publishing software have come together to make small print-run and virtual (electronic) publishing widely available and easy<br />Genealogy titles often have long-term interest but slow sales, which is perfect for PoD and e-publishing<br />Limitations with “going-it-alone” in PoD include the lack of marketing and distribution, but this might be the way to go with a project intended only for family or research use<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />61<br />

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Print-on-Demand (PoD) <br />62<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />62<br />

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Privacy and Copyright<br />Do your homework<br />

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Privacy<br />Policy – Read your site’s privacy policy <br />Awareness – Be aware of what you are sharing and what you are not sharing <br />Hi-res vs. low-res images<br />Specific images<br />Content Persistence– Investigate your ability to delete content <br />64<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />64<br />

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Copyright<br />Follow the RulesDo not violate the copyrights of others<br />Share and Share AlikeTo learn how to share content appropriately, see creativecommons.org. <br />Respect the Wishes of OthersFollow the attribution and re-use limits set by others on their content. <br />65<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />65<br />

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CreativeCommons Licenses<br />Attribution<br />Attribution Share Alike<br />Attribution No Derivatives<br />Attribution Non-Commercial<br />Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike<br />Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives<br />66<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />66<br />

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Contact<br />Jordan Jones<br />jordan@genealogymedia.com<br />These slides, and the handout, are available at: http://www.genealogymedia.com/talks/<br />

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GoogleReader<br />68<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />68<br />

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Web 1.0<br />“Web 1.0”: The web from 1993 to 2003<br />Simple mainly one-way delivery of information<br />Posting and sharing by contributors was limited<br />Minimal collective volunteer efforts to build sites<br />Where collective efforts did exist, they were not real-time, but required approvals for posts and changes <br />70<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />70<br />

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Collaborative Tagging & Collections<br />Folksonomies – Collaborative tagging, classification, and indexing<br />Taxonomies (classification systems) designed by members of the community<br />Often displayed in tag clouds (for example: LibraryThing, Flickr, Footnote)<br />Mash-ups – Merging content from more than one source or website (for example: images on GoogleMaps)<br />71<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />71<br />

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Link and Blog Sharing<br />Sites for link sharing can be set up to focus solely on your genealogy links<br />digg.com<br />delicious.com<br />You can also create blog and web searches for yourself or others at:<br />google.com/reader<br />bloglines.com<br />72<br />© 2009 GenealogyMedia.com <br />72<br />