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Beyond Browse: Mobilizing Digital Collections and Engaging Users
- 1. Beyond Browse Mobilizing Digital Collections and Engaging Users Sharon M. Leon Director, Public Projects Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media @sleonchnm | sleon@gmu.edu
- 6. Putting Collections to Work 1. Where are your users? 2. Who do you want to play with? 3. What will your next experiment be?
- 7. Meet users where they are
- 9. scripto.org
- 17. Mobile First ❖ 90% of American adults have a cell phone ❖ 58% of American adults have a smartphone ❖ 32% of American adults have an e-reader ❖ 42% of American adults own a tablet computer (January 2014) “Mobile Technology Fact Sheet,” Pew Research Internet Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/mobile-technology-fact-sheet/.
- 18. Responsive Design ❖ 63% of cell phone owners user their phone to go online ❖ 34% mostly use their phone to go online (September 2013) Maeve Duggan and Aaron Smith, “Cell Internet Use 2013,” Pew Research Internet Project, (September 16, 2013) http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/09/16/cell-internet-use-2013/.
- 19. mallhistory.org
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- 23. Play nicely with others
- 26. curatescape.org
- 29. europeana.eu
- 30. dp.la
- 31. Embrace and support experimentation
- 38. Putting Collections to Work 1. Meet users where they are 2. Play nicely with others 3. Embrace and support experimentation
- 39. Putting Collections to Work 1. Where are your users? 2. Who do you want to play with? 3. What will your next experiment be?
- 40. Beyond Browse Mobilizing Digital Collections and Engaging Users Sharon M. Leon Director, Public Projects Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media @sleonchnm | sleon@gmu.edu
Editor's Notes
- Since 1994 under the founding direction of Roy Rosenzweig, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.
- For nearly twenty years, libraries, museums, and archives have been diligently working to digitize their collections. (Remember the launch of American Memory with the LC Civil War Photographs Collection in 1995?) Now we must put those collections to work.
- IMLS Strategic Plan for 2012-2016, “Creating a Nation of Learners” (3 of 5 are about users): IMLS places the learner at the center and supports engaging experiences in libraries and museums that prepare people to be full participants in their local communities and our global society. IMLS promotes museums and libraries as strong community anchors that enhance civic engagement, cultural opportunities, and economic vitality. IMLS supports exemplary stewardship of museum and library collections and promotes the use of technologies to facilitate discovery of knowledge and cultural heritage.
- Here is a snapshot of transcription activity for September (almost 3.5 years): As of this morning, we have 1,953 users, with approximately 41 new transcribers registered since the last update. Those volunteer transcribers have made 13,332 saves to War Department documents, which is about 96 additional edits since the last update. The average number of edits before a document is saved continues to be three. We have had 205,244 total page views.
- Analysis of the first three years of transcribers.
- Standardized rights statements
- Structured Metadata and Standardized feed = extensible work; flexible; shareable
- Aggregators — access, exposure
- API
- Why Build the DPLA API? The Digital Public Library of America built and maintains an open API to encourage the independent development of applications, tools, and resources that make use of data contained in the DPLA platform in new and innovative ways, from anywhere, at any time.