Mapping a Tornado Tragedy: Library Technology Conference 2017
This session focused on the project management angle of building a digital collection for the Iowa City Public Library's Digital History Project at history.icpl.org/tornado. It was presented on March 26, 2017, at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. The session description was as follows: On April 13, 2006, an F2 tornado formed in Southwest Iowa City. Eight minutes and 4.5 miles later, the twister dissipated, leaving more than $12 million in damages. In honor of the 10th anniversary of the tragedy, the Iowa City Public Library collected images and stories from community members who experienced this historic event. Members of the public submitted more than 2,500 images and video to the library for its digital collections on its Omeka website. ICPL plotted many of these images onto a Neatline map where users could tour the destruction digitally. This session shares the project’s "lessons learned": What factors led to successful crowdsourcing? What struggles did crowd-controlled curation invite? It covers the marketing strategies, technology tools, and interactive print and e-sign exhibits that grew from the map. ICPL will provide analytics on the map’s use as well as attendance numbers for the library program produced in tandem with the digital tour. Tour the tornado path in advance at history.icpl.org/tornado.
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Mapping a Tornado Tragedy: Library Technology Conference 2017
- 1. Library Technology Conference, Thursday, March 16, 2017 Mapping a Tornado Tragedy: A Crowdsourcing Case Study Melody Dworak, Librarian, Iowa City Public Library
- 2. Job Description Digital Archive Other Cataloging Reference Selection
- 4. Roles & Responsibilities Collections Manager Reference Manager IT Manager Digital Archive Librarian Outreach Librarian Hourly Assistant Graphics
- 5. One Project: Many Deliverables Build digital collection Curate digital exhibit Engage with print exhibit Connect and host program
- 6. Collecting from the Crowd
- 9. Digital Collection 2006 Iowa City Tornado
- 10. Digital Collection 2006 Iowa City Tornado Coding by Brent Palmer
- 11. Print Exhibit: Tornado Tour
- 12. Print Exhibit: Citizen Stories
- 14. Program
- 15. Program
- 16. Program
- 17. Program
- 18. 2018: Flood Retrospective Can we replicate success?
- 19. What gap exists?
- 20. Takeaways Crowdsourcing = community = inclusion How to give selection as much weight as inclusion? Control that scope of work! Plan for unfulfilled wish list Find a topic that affects a critical mass Make time
- 21. Project Tools & Resources FADGI Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials Project tracking: Trello Website architecture: Omeka Exhibit architecture: Neatline Metadata standard: Dublin Core Metadata wrangling: Excel & CSV spreadsheets Scanner: Epson Expression 10000XL