YouTube video of this talk: http://youtu.be/VlHC0uPqdRY.
This is a transcript of a short introductory video recorded for Europeana’s European Cultural Commons workshop in Limassol Cyprus on October 30, 2012.
Into The Wild: Breathing New Life Into CollectionsGeorge Oates
Delivered at the Society of Archivists meeting in Bristol, UK, this is a revised version of the "Into The Wild" talk I gave last year a bit, about the Commons on Flickr. Also mentioned a bit about Open Library, with a sneak peek at the planned redesign.
Slides from a talk given by Stacy Allison-Cassin and William Denton, of York University, at the Ontario Library Association 2009 Super Conference, 29 January 2009.
Available under a Creative Commons license.
http://hdl.handle.net/10315/2501
The opening day's slides and exercises to the two week summer course at IED in Barcelona I'm running. Our project topic this year is the future of food. More details on the course can be found here - http://iedbarcelona.es/en/cursos-info/summer-course-in-innovation-and-future-thinking/
Into The Wild: Breathing New Life Into CollectionsGeorge Oates
Delivered at the Society of Archivists meeting in Bristol, UK, this is a revised version of the "Into The Wild" talk I gave last year a bit, about the Commons on Flickr. Also mentioned a bit about Open Library, with a sneak peek at the planned redesign.
Slides from a talk given by Stacy Allison-Cassin and William Denton, of York University, at the Ontario Library Association 2009 Super Conference, 29 January 2009.
Available under a Creative Commons license.
http://hdl.handle.net/10315/2501
The opening day's slides and exercises to the two week summer course at IED in Barcelona I'm running. Our project topic this year is the future of food. More details on the course can be found here - http://iedbarcelona.es/en/cursos-info/summer-course-in-innovation-and-future-thinking/
21st Century Catechesis Sharing the Faith in a Digital WorldCaroline Cerveny
What does it mean to be a pioneer today to share faith in a Digital World? Come to share your story of what you may be pioneering. Or come to learn how others are beginning to pioneer with digital tools to share faith with children, youth, young adults, and RCIA. This will give you an opportunity to hear what is beginning to emerge in today's Digital World.
Presentation I give in a class by the same name in the Horry County SC library, Socastee Branch. Shows newish web users the range of activities available on the web. Many hyperlinks are active on the slides.
Version 2, links fixed
Why the social web is here to stay (and what to do about it)Mike Ellis
The social web (was "Web2.0"...) calls to human experience and emotion in a way which transcends the hype often associated with it. While the phrase "Web2.0" does a good job of associating certain services and approaches together, it also has a down-side, suggesting that any day now, a "Web3.0" will be along to replace this transient, fickle technology with something new.
This talk argues that the "social web" has a momentum which should be taken seriously -- more seriously than "just mere hype", particularly by content-rich organisations such as those involved with cultural content. It also examines some of the issues -- particularly around the perceived challenges to authority and "value" of cultural institutions and assets -- and asks how these can be overcome.
Keynote given at ELAG2016 (European Library Automation Group) EXIT conference
7 June 2016, The Royal Library, Copenhagen
http://elag2016.org/
#elag2016
Making and the Commons, for Europeana's "European Cultural Commons" conferenc...Michael Edson
Keynote given at Europeana's European Cultural Commons conference in Warsaw Poland, October 12, 2011.
A video of this talk from Warsaw is at http://youtu.be/RSaLnHlN4gQ
A full text version of the talk (with footnotes and hyperlinks) is at http://www.slideshare.net/edsonm/museums-and-the-commons-helping-makers-get-stuff-done-6779050
Sharing is Caring. Societal impact of open collections? Merete Sanderhoff
Presentation for the seminar Open Collections, arranged by the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, on the occasion of the launh of their Public Domain policy, 7 October 2016
Beyond Open Access: Creating Culture By, With, and For the PublicMerete Sanderhoff
Presentation for Professional Session with Andrea Wallace, Liz Neely, and Simon Tanner
Museum Computer Network, 3 November 2016, The Sheraton, New Orleans
Presentation on how to maintain a multi-annual partnership with a private foundation centered around digital development in museums.
Museum Computer Network, 2 November 2016, The Sheraton, New Orleans.
All artworks by Jamie Seaboch / EyeQ Innovations CC BY-SA 4.0 - unless otherwise stated.
Slides for a remote presentation/session for http://conference2009.e-uni.ee/index.php?n=en
SCHOOL - FROM TEACHING INSTITUTION TO LEARNING SPACE which takes place April 02 - 03, 2009 at the Estonian University of Life Sciences conference centre (Kreutzwaldi 1A, Tartu), Estonia (but I'll be in Seattle and it will be 4:30 am my time!)
These are the slides from a teaching session I ran to get our doctoral students thinking a bit more critically about the nature of technology in Higher Education. (Note, it's deliberately controversial in places)
Open Digital Heritage: Doing Hard Things Easily, at Scale (text version) :: M...Michael Edson
The text of a brief keynote for the 2012 Open Digital Heritage symposium at the National Heritage Board of Sweden, organized with the Swedish National Archives and National Library as part of the Almedalen Week events.
Abstract: Heritage organizations need to adopt new tools and new ways of thinking to achieve meaningful outcomes in the 21st century. Open content and participatory knowledge creation are vital to the success of knowledge institutions.
A video of this and other talks from the conference are available at http://oppnakulturarvet.se/
This revision of the presentation contains the original content plus a draft model of Web 2.0 and social media within a broader social spaces construct.
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21st Century Catechesis Sharing the Faith in a Digital WorldCaroline Cerveny
What does it mean to be a pioneer today to share faith in a Digital World? Come to share your story of what you may be pioneering. Or come to learn how others are beginning to pioneer with digital tools to share faith with children, youth, young adults, and RCIA. This will give you an opportunity to hear what is beginning to emerge in today's Digital World.
Presentation I give in a class by the same name in the Horry County SC library, Socastee Branch. Shows newish web users the range of activities available on the web. Many hyperlinks are active on the slides.
Version 2, links fixed
Why the social web is here to stay (and what to do about it)Mike Ellis
The social web (was "Web2.0"...) calls to human experience and emotion in a way which transcends the hype often associated with it. While the phrase "Web2.0" does a good job of associating certain services and approaches together, it also has a down-side, suggesting that any day now, a "Web3.0" will be along to replace this transient, fickle technology with something new.
This talk argues that the "social web" has a momentum which should be taken seriously -- more seriously than "just mere hype", particularly by content-rich organisations such as those involved with cultural content. It also examines some of the issues -- particularly around the perceived challenges to authority and "value" of cultural institutions and assets -- and asks how these can be overcome.
Keynote given at ELAG2016 (European Library Automation Group) EXIT conference
7 June 2016, The Royal Library, Copenhagen
http://elag2016.org/
#elag2016
Making and the Commons, for Europeana's "European Cultural Commons" conferenc...Michael Edson
Keynote given at Europeana's European Cultural Commons conference in Warsaw Poland, October 12, 2011.
A video of this talk from Warsaw is at http://youtu.be/RSaLnHlN4gQ
A full text version of the talk (with footnotes and hyperlinks) is at http://www.slideshare.net/edsonm/museums-and-the-commons-helping-makers-get-stuff-done-6779050
Sharing is Caring. Societal impact of open collections? Merete Sanderhoff
Presentation for the seminar Open Collections, arranged by the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, on the occasion of the launh of their Public Domain policy, 7 October 2016
Beyond Open Access: Creating Culture By, With, and For the PublicMerete Sanderhoff
Presentation for Professional Session with Andrea Wallace, Liz Neely, and Simon Tanner
Museum Computer Network, 3 November 2016, The Sheraton, New Orleans
Presentation on how to maintain a multi-annual partnership with a private foundation centered around digital development in museums.
Museum Computer Network, 2 November 2016, The Sheraton, New Orleans.
All artworks by Jamie Seaboch / EyeQ Innovations CC BY-SA 4.0 - unless otherwise stated.
Slides for a remote presentation/session for http://conference2009.e-uni.ee/index.php?n=en
SCHOOL - FROM TEACHING INSTITUTION TO LEARNING SPACE which takes place April 02 - 03, 2009 at the Estonian University of Life Sciences conference centre (Kreutzwaldi 1A, Tartu), Estonia (but I'll be in Seattle and it will be 4:30 am my time!)
These are the slides from a teaching session I ran to get our doctoral students thinking a bit more critically about the nature of technology in Higher Education. (Note, it's deliberately controversial in places)
Open Digital Heritage: Doing Hard Things Easily, at Scale (text version) :: M...Michael Edson
The text of a brief keynote for the 2012 Open Digital Heritage symposium at the National Heritage Board of Sweden, organized with the Swedish National Archives and National Library as part of the Almedalen Week events.
Abstract: Heritage organizations need to adopt new tools and new ways of thinking to achieve meaningful outcomes in the 21st century. Open content and participatory knowledge creation are vital to the success of knowledge institutions.
A video of this and other talks from the conference are available at http://oppnakulturarvet.se/
This revision of the presentation contains the original content plus a draft model of Web 2.0 and social media within a broader social spaces construct.
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An invited speaker presentation for the MLGSCA Meeting in Cerritos California. Looks at the evolving roles of librarianship and how social media and healthcare community support fit within a model of Collaborative Librarianship.
Example Of A Narrative Essay About Yourself.pdfLory Holets
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Exploring the multimodal methodology developed on the Energy Biographies project at Cardiff University for investigating how the stories people tell about their everyday energy use can help us understand the opportunities for and obstacles to transforming energy systems.
A parallel universe? – Blogs, wikis, web 2.0 and a complicated future for sch...David Smith
A talk on web2.0 given at two events:
ALPSP Seminar: Publishing and the Library of the Future (http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id=335&did=47&aid=877&st=&oaid=-1)
and
UKSG event:Caught up in Web 2.0? Practical implementations and creative solutions for librarians and publishers (http://www.uksg.org/event/web20)
Michael Edson @ Walker Art Center: What is a CommonsMichael Edson
annotated/footnoted talk given at the Walker Art Center's "Opening the Field" celebration in Minneapolis, MN, 6/2/2010. The talk goes through some of the reasons why the Smithsonian Commons project is important to accomplishing the Smithsonian's mission, and what the characteristics of a commons are or might be...
Life in Techtopia - The Direction and Destination of the 21st Century Technol...Harish Shah
A free eBook by Harish Shah, endearingly known as "The Singapore Futurist", presenting scenarios of life in the future, where the emerging technologies of the early 21st Century reach their full potential and converge to effect optimal synergies.
Shaking Hands with the Future: Culture and Heritage at a Moment Full of ChangeMichael Edson
Keynote for the congress of the Network Oorlogsbronnen (Netherlands WWII data network), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 November 2021.
Note that some of the text/callouts seem hard to read w. SlideShare's new compression scheme — sorry about that! Probably best to download the show and view it in PowerPoint, or, I've put a link to a PDF version on slide 2 (and the links work on the PDF version too!)
(This is the second version of these slides. The previous version was for some reason flagged as suspicious by SlideShare and made irrevocably un-shareable.)
Digital Culture and the Shaking Hand of ChangeMichael Edson
The presentation shows how to create and use a "problem space" to organize complex challenges. The central metaphor for the talk is the "civic handshake" — a process by which different parts of society cooperate through the informal exchange of information and the sharing of responsibilities.
Ignite talk for the Museum Computer Network 2019 conference.
Annotated script with links and references.
A video of the talk: https://youtu.be/Psf-1C3ocDA
A blog post with some context and links: https://www.usingdata.com/usingdata/2019/11/5/the-web-we-want
Keynote for the Prague Platform on the Future of Cultural Heritage, convened by the European Commission, October 7-8, 2019. The Prague Platform talks about
“Enhanced digitally enabled cultural heritage participation for all citizens.”
But what do these words mean? And how might we approach them — as practitioners, communities, governments and institutions, and citizens?
Michael Peter Edson — Robot vs. Human: Who Will Win?Michael Edson
Presentation for the VIII St. Petersburg International Cultural Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia. 16 November 2019. See https://usingdata.com for updates and new versions.
Conference: https://culturalforum.ru.
Panel: https://culturalforum.ru/event/1565208895246-robot-vs-chelovek-kakie-navyki-pobedyat
An overview of how change works, and what can be done to accelerate transformational change in an industry. Created for the Openlab Workshop, December 1-2, 2015 in Washington, DC.
Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast: Digital Strategy in a Changing WorldMichael Edson
Keynote for MMEx digital strategy symposium, Randers, Denmark, August 2015. This presentation discusses the shortcomings of traditional strategy processes and suggests alternatives that emphasize speed, iteration, and a bias for action.
Dark Matter - - the dark matter of the internet is open, social, peer-to-peer...Michael Edson
Keynote for Europeana Creative, Kulturstyrelsen - Danish Agency for Culture, Internet Librarian International (London), Southeastern Museum Conference (USA), Library of Congress Reference Forum, St. John's University Library Forum, University of Oklahoma Digital Humanities Presidential Lecture, Smith Leadership Symposium (Balboa Park, USA)...
The Dark Matter of the Internet - - the dark matter of the internet is open, social, peer-to-peer and read write...and it's the future of libraries, museums, archives, and institutions of all kinds.
Also see the essay on which this talk is based: Dark Matter - - https://medium.com/@mpedson/dark-matter-a6c7430d84d1
And a video of me presenting these slides at the 2014 Southeastern Museums Conference (USA): http://youtu.be/-tdLD5rdRTQ
Boom: Openness and Sharing in the Cultural Heritage SectorMichael Edson
My essay for the book Sharing is Caring: Openness and sharing in the cultural sector, Merete Sanderhoff, editor, published by the National Gallery of Denmark, 2014.
Free download at http://sharingiscaring.smk.dk/en
"Michael opens this anthology by establishing why it is crucial for the cultural heritage sector to seize the opportunity offered by the Internet and digitization to reach global populations and make a difference in their lives. Through many years of pioneering efforts within the field of digital technologies, and generous sharing of expertise and advice, Michael has inspired institutions worldwide to dare working more openly and inclusively with the users’ knowledge and creativity."
Try Not: Do (New Zealand National Digital Forum, Closing Remarks)Michael Edson
Text from a short video for the closing plenary of the 2013 New Zealand National Digital Forum. This was cooked up - - improvised - - with no advanced planning a few hours before Andy Fenton's conference wrap-up.
Many thanks to Andy and everyone at the #ndfnz for allowing me to be there with you, if only for a few minutes, virtually.
The Tortoise and the Hare, Netherlands Museum CongresMichael Edson
Remarks to the Netherlands Museum Congress, October 3, 2013 plenary session keynote. Footnotes and citations are coming later, in an edited version, but let me know if you need sources/links. - - Mike
"Scope, Scale, Speed" -- for the Journal of the American Association of Schoo...Michael Edson
Text (and a few, adapted/simplified graphics) of an article in the May/June 2013 issue (Volume 41, No. 5) of Knowledge Quest, the journal of the American Association of School Librarians. I have included a few adapted /simplified graphics from the article, and I have added hyperlinks and an update/note or two. The original publication was sent to 7,000 school libraries and members of the American Association of School Librarians, and it is also available via several research databases.
The article is published in Knowledge Quest as CC-BY
Keynote for Wikimedia UK GLAM-WIKI conference, British Library, London, April 12, 2013.
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2013
Also presented at the National Museum, Denmark; Danish Broadcasting; Danskkulturarv.dk; the FIAT/IFTA conference; National Museum Congress, the Netherlands; Arts Council Norway annual conference; J. Boye, Copenhagen
Scope, scale, and speed are the focus of most of my work this year.
"Click to Add Title"/ Thoughts on PresentingMichael Edson
Short presentation for the Museums and the Web Speaker Training webinar.
The session was lead by Loic Tallon and Nancy Proctor, and Peter Samis, Dana Mitroff-Silvers, Amy Heibel and Susan Chun all gave short talks that are well worth looking at ;)
http://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2013-speaker-training-free-webinars/
Are museums a dial that only goes to 5? Michael Edson
For Social Media Week, Washington, D.C., "Defining and measuring social media success in museums and arts organizations." http://socialmediaweek.org/blog/event/are-you-remarkable-defining-and-measuring-social-media-success-in-museums-and-arts-organizations/#.US4XyOtARCQ
Super-Successful GLAMs (Text version with notes)Michael Edson
Opening remarks for The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums
Sponsored by the City University of New York Digital Humanities Initiative, November 28, 2012
Organized by Neal Stimler and Matt Gold, with Will Noel and Christina DePaolo.
http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/11/07/wednesday-november-28-the-commons-and-digital-humanities-in-museums/
Jack the Museum (Museums in the Age of Scale) -- Text versionMichael Edson
Ignite talk (text version with footnotes) for the Museum Computer Network 2012 annual conference, November 7, 2012, Seattle, WA.
Slides at Slides at
http://www.slideshare.net/edsonm/jack-the-museum-museums-in-the-age-of-scale-15089314
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
GenAISummit 2024 May 28 Sri Ambati Keynote: AGI Belongs to The Community in O...
European Cultural Commons Workshop, Introductory Remarks (transcript)
1. “A Catalog of Connections”
Intro remarks and greeting for Europeana’s
European
Cultural Commons
Workshop
Limassol, Cyprus | October 30, 2012
Michael Peter Edson
Director, Web and New Media Strategy
Smithsonian Institution
Video: http://youtu.be/VlHC0uPqdRY
2. This is a transcript of a video recorded for
Europeana’s European Cultural Commons
workshop in Limassol Cyprus on October 30,
2012.
The video is online at
http://youtu.be/VlHC0uPqdRY
Table of Contents
A Catalog of Connections ............................................................................................... 2
1. Europeana is one of the most important projects in the world today .. 4
2. Europeana won’t succeed by trying to be great ............................................. 5
3. A commons is like a gumbo ..................................................................................... 7
4. Beware of certain words........................................................................................... 7
“Culture” .......................................................................................................................... 8
“Audience” ...................................................................................................................... 9
“Access” ............................................................................................................................ 9
“Engagement” ............................................................................................................. 10
5. Think like investors ................................................................................................. 11
Some additional notes/references ......................................................................... 13
Helping other people succeed ............................................................................. 13
Hubs and spokes ....................................................................................................... 13
3. Hi everyone.
I’m Michael Edson. I’m the director of web and new media strategy at
the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
But I suspect that many of you know that, and I know many of you in
that room in Cyprus today. I wish I could be there with you. I’m very
proud to know all of you. And I’m very very proud as a member of the
human species, of the work you’re doing today and the work you’ve
done through your whole careers to make culture and scientific
knowledge and the work of museums and libraries and archives
relevant and important and meaningful in society.
I think Europeana is one of the most important initiatives in the world
today. As Harry Verwayen said so persuasively at the Open Knowledge
Festival in Helsinkin last month [September, 2012, see “Open Cultural
Heritage Special Europeana Announcement from Harry
Verwayen” http://bambuser.com/v/2996301 ], what you’re doing
shows the world that Europe can accomplish difficult, meaningful things
if you work together and if you stick to your principles. That means a lot
to us here in the states. It means a lot to people all over the world. So
keep going.
I said that I’m with the Smithsonian Institution, but I’m not an official
spokesperson for the Smithsonian today. I’m speaking as a private
citizen who has been thinking a lot about the cultural commons, and
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4. thinking a lot about how our knowledge institutions can thrive and do
the important work they need to do in society during the digital age.
A Catalog of Connections
About a year ago I read a really interesting article in Quora. Quora is an
online site that’s about asking and answering questions and it’s often
full of surprises. This article was called “What is it like to have an
understanding of very advanced mathematics?”
[ http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-is-it-like-to-have-an-
understanding-of-very-advanced-mathematics , also cited and discussed
a bit on my tumblr at http://usingdata.tumblr.com/page/4]
OK…That’s kind of cool.
The answer, the best answer, the longest answer, was from an
anonymous mathematician who talked about what it is like to think and
work as a mathemetician. Two ideas came out of that writing, that essay,
that really blew me away. And I think they’re relevant for you today.
The first is – and I’m going to read off of a cue card behind the camera –
“You are comfortable with feeling like you have no deep
understanding of the problem you are studying. Indeed, when
you do have a deep understanding, you have solved the problem
and it is time to do something else. This makes the total time
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5. you spend in life reveling in your mastery of something quite
brief. One of the main skills of research scientists of any type is
knowing how to work comfortably and productively in a state of
confusion.”
That’s definitely the way I feel most of the time, grappling with these
issues that you’re working on constructively today. I feel like I’m always
working in a state of confusion and like I never have a complete grasp of
what’s going on. So I would say, allow yourselves to be comfortable in
that state of confusion and allow yourselves to resist the temptation to
feel like you’ve mastered it. Because you haven’t mastered whatever
you’re working on - - things are changing that quickly.
The second paragraph, element, of this article about mathematics that
interested me so much was, and I’ll quote this also,
“You are often confident that something is true long before you
have an airtight proof for it (this happens especially often in
geometry). The main reason is that you have a large catalogue of
connections between concepts, and you can quickly intuit that if
X were to be false, that would create tensions with other things
you know to be true…”
I love that idea of having a catalog of connections. I love that idea of
having a catalog of concepts, and that working through difficult ideas
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6. and unknown ideas is a matter of making connections between that
catalog of concepts.
In the spirit of that idea, I want to give you five concepts to think about -
- I want to assert five concepts that you can think about today. And you
can think about understanding the connections between them in
relation to your job in this workshop.
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1. Europeana is one of the most important projects in the
world today
In the 20th century – in the 19th and 18th and 17th centuries for that
matter - - we made these wonderful institutions, these museums,
libraries, archives, scientific organizations, knowledge institutions. And
nobody told us we had to make these things. We felt compelled to make
them as a human race, as a species. I think these institutions and what
they represent in our genome is a part of our operating system - - part
of the operating system of society.
And we made them out of the tools we had available to us, out of the
materials we had available to us - - bricks and mortar and iron and glass
and big marble columns and magnificent spaces in the middle of our
cities. And also quiet, dark rooms - - filled with shelves and drawers of
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7. magnificent and unrivaled examples of human creativity and insight.
And samples of the natural world, the scientific world.
But we have new tools now. We have very new tools now, available to
us today, that we didn’t have 3 or 4 years ago, let alone 30 or 40 or 300
or 400 years ago. And it’s really important that somebody figure out
how to do the work that society expects us to do - - needs us to do - - in
our institutions, with these new tools. Because the tools are… I won’t
say more powerful, but… powerful and meaningful in a way that our old
tools just are not. And I think this concept of a commons—and what
Europeana is doing and stands for—really paves the way, more strongly
than any other initiative I know of.
So that’s concept 1.
2. Europeana won’t succeed by trying to be great
Concept 2 is that Europeana won’t succeed by trying to be great.
I want you to resist the temptation –the incredible gravitational pull—of
trying to make Europeana the strongest, biggest, bestest, most bad-
assedest portal in the world.
Most of your success will come through making other people great - - by
being a supporter of the passion and enthusiasm and the inquiry and
intelligence and the verve of everyone else in the world.
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8. I’m remembering a conversation I had with an online video portal
company, I think it was SchoolTube. They approached the Smithsonian
wanting us to become involved in creating content for teachers and
students. Our initial reaction was “Oh, we’re going make the best 2-
minute videos that teachers will ever use.” And, I think when the end of
the day came, most of us realized that the most powerful thing that we
could do was “B-roll.” Was footage of George Washington’s (our famous
“founding father”) battle uniform, or of the Washington Monument, or
Dorothy’s slippers [from The Wizard of Oz] - - or resources that other
people could use, teachers and students could use, to do their own work.
So rather than manufacturing a complete vision of the future, or a
complete vision of knowledge, or of creativity, ourselves, and delivering
it through our portal down a one-way pipe to a passive audience…
Maybe the most powerful thing we could do was to provide a very
simple platform that other people could use to be successful.
And I think there’s a lot of wisdom and potential in that direction, for
your thinking: what can you do that will make your citizens, your
countrymen and countrywomen, be more successful? Maybe you take a
humble role. A back seat. Maybe you’re just a simple platform that
people use to come and get the resources that they need to use to weave
the tapestry they’re building their lives with.
…That’s number 2.
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9. 3. A commons is like a gumbo
Number 3 is, there are a lot of ideas on the table. I saw Harry
Verwayen’s excellent briefing paper - - Harry and staff and team’s
excellent briefing paper - - and there are a lot of ideas on the table about
what a commons is. I want to assert that those ideas are not a fixed
formula, they’re more like the recipe for a soup, or a stew, or a Southern
Louisiana gumbo. You can make substitutions. You don’t need all the
ingredients. You can use different ratios of them depending on what job
you’re trying to do today, or who your audience is.
So don’t think too hierarchically or rigidly about “if we don’t do this it
can’t be a commons.”
I’m thinking about Italo Calvino’s book “Invisible Cities”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Cities), imagining many
different kinds of cities, some impossible, some real…Not all commons
have to be the same or follow the same mould.
And that leads me to idea connection catalog number 4…
4. Beware of certain words
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10. There are certain words that you need to think critically about - - you
need to question your use of, because they mean radically different
things to different people.
“Culture”
The first is “culture.”
I’ve noticed when I come to Europe - - and this is true in the states as
well - - when we talk about culture we talk about the opera…we’re
thinking about the opera, we’re thinking about institutions. I learned a
new term: “S.O.B’s” - - Symphonies, Operas, and Ballets - - the “S.O.B’s”!!
You’re talking about institutions, and when you talk about serving
culture, sometimes you’re thinking, without even meaning to, you’re
talking about institutions and governments providing services to other
institutions, that then provide culture for their citizens. That’s not
always the best use of that term, or really what it means.
I’m interested in the person who’s in their living room playing the
harmonica. Or learning to play guitar, or singing in a community choir,
or making art or writing poetry - - those individual makers or creators
or imaginers in your populations that you serve. Sometimes culture is
about what they’re doing.
The institutions of the 20th century had a hard time finding and relating
to those people. But now those people can find each other, and they can
find you, and that redefines that term “culture.”
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11. “Audience”
Another term is “Audience.”
Is Europeana’s audience other institutions?
Is it your 2,200 institutional partners?
Or are they the citizens, that get served?
And then, which sub-audience of those citizens? I think we’re inarguably
in a Long Tail environment where you have hundreds or thousands of
niche audiences. So as you talk today, be exceptionally clear about what
you mean when you say the word “audience.” Who is that?
“Access”
Another danger word is “access.”
As in, “We’re going to provide access.”
Access is not the same as use. It’s not the same as sharing.
Access usually, in the parlance of museums and libraries and archives,
means, “You can come, and ‘access’ our stuff, on our terms, through our
pipe.”
[As a point-of-reference, I had a conversation with the registrar of a
massive natural history collection a few months ago. She stated,
categorically, that her museum provided “free and open access” to their
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12. online collections. In fact, her museum only releases metadata and
digital images of collection items under a full “copyright, all rights
reserved” status, and images are only released in low resolution. But to
her, this constituted “free and open access” because her museum was
not charging a fee to access these materials online.]
And that, maybe, is not the most productive way of thinking about
access in terms of a cultural commons.
Along those lines I think we imagine the future as having us [our
institutions] be a hub, still, but with a lot of spokes: people will have to
come to us to access the things they need. But maybe the best role for us
is not as a hub, surrounded by spokes, but as one of the endpoints. Part
of a network of peers.
“Engagement”
The last term I want you to think about is “engagement.”
Often when we talk about engagement we talk about you, out there, the
public, coming and being engaged with us, with our stuff, on our terms.
That’s not what I think a 20 year old would think “engagement” means
today.
Engagement is a two-way pipe.
Engagement is peer-to-peer (without institutional mediators, hubs).
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13. Engagement is on terms your users are defining on their own, without
you, every day.
So think about the bias of that term, engagement, when it comes up.
5. Think like investors
The last connection I want to bring up is… “pride” is not the word… but
I’m very proud to know that you all are there today, as investors.
You’re investing your own time, your energy, the reputation of your
institutions. You could be doing anything with this time today, but
you’re investing it in helping think through the European Cultural
Commons. Think like investors.
Where are you going to put your resources?
When do you want payoff for that?
When do you want benefits from that?
Where do you want to be a month from now?
Where do you want to be a year from now?
Really press the urgency of that investor thinking. I think there’s so
much you can do now, so much you can do in the short term. Many of
you have heard me repeat something I heard somewhere else,
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14. Think big.
Start small.
Move fast.
…But move. Do what you can, but do it.
***
And on that note, maybe I’ll get back to my hurricane preparation. It’s
Sunday [October 28, 2012], things are starting to get cold here, the
weather is coming from a strange direction. Probably as your workshop
is happening we’ll be hunkered inside my house, without electricity,
hoping that the roof doesn’t blow off.
So enjoy warm and sunny Cyprus and…I’m just thrilled, I’m
overwhelmed and thrilled at the direction you’re headed, and the rest of
us, the rest of the world, is cheering you on.
So go get ‘em.
[Recorded October 28, 2012, in Falls Church, VA]
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15. Some additional notes/references
Helping other people succeed
This meme has been around for a while, and is deeply connected with
the Web 2.0 movement: see Tim O’Reilly’s seminal What is Web 2.0
essay [http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html] , and his
recent, excellent post on LinkedIn, It's Not About You: The Truth About
Social Media Marketing
[http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121002122119-
16553-it-s-not-about-you-the-truth-about-social-media-
marketing?goback=.ptf_]
Kathy Sierra’s ideas about the changing relationship between customers
and brands (and institutions for that matter) deeply resonate with me
and have been a kind of sigil that I’ve used to unlock a lot of new
thinking. I talk about Kathy’s “every user is a hero in their own epic
journey” tweet in nearly ever talk I give, most recently here: Open
Digital Heritage: Doing Hard Things Easily, at Scale (p. 3)
[http://www.slideshare.net/edsonm/michael-edson-open-digital-
heritage-doing-hard-things-easily-at-scale-text-version ]
Hubs and spokes
I was thinking about Clay Shirky’s writing about the newspaper industry
here: Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis
[http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2011/12/institutions-confidence-
and-the-news-crisis/ ],
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16. “All of this seems to offer the grandmotherly option between
Starkman and the FON crew — “You’re both right, dear. We
need institutions and we need experiments.” Even given this
hybridization, though, our views diverge: Plan A assumes that
experiments should be spokes to the newspapers’ hub, their
continued role as the clear center of public interest
journalism assured, and on the terms previously negotiated.
Plan B follows Jonathan Stray’s observations about the digital
public sphere: in a world where Wikipedia is a more popular
source of information than any newspaper, maybe we won’t
have a clear center anymore. Maybe we’ll just have lots of
overlapping, partial, competitive, cooperative attempts to
arm the public to deal with the world we live in.
Some of the experiments going on today, small and tentative
as they are, will eventually harden into institutional form,
and that development will be as surprising as the penny
press subsidizing journalism for seven generations. The old
landscape had institutions and so will the new one, but this
doesn’t imply continuity.”
Also, Brewster Kahle, in Interview: Brewster Kahle on Radio Free Culture
[http://freemusicarchive.org/member/jason/blog/Interview_Brewster
_Kahle_on_Radio_Free_Culture ]
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17. “…we’re really organized toward having many winners.
We want to have many publishers, many libraries, many
authors who make money. And everyone is a reader. So the
idea of having lots of winners and no central points of control
is how we got here on the internet. It’s why Creative
Commons is kind of an interesting approach, why open
source has been working well. The world wide web doesn’t
have central points of control. This is just the way to make a
robust, evolving, environment.”
I’ve unpacked the ideas around hub-and-spoke vs. lots of hubs and lots
of spokes here: Lego Beowulf and the Web of Hands and Hearts, (p. 11)
[http://www.slideshare.net/edsonm/michael-edson-lego-beowulf-and-
the-web-of-hands-and-hearts-for-the-danish-national-museum-awards-
13444266 ]
“And it's important to emphasize that as it's shown, this
network of connections—this learning network—shows us,
the Institution, at the middle. But these are not just one way
connections from us in the middle outward to our audience
on the periphery. These are two-way connections between us
and The People Formerly Known as the Audience (a phrase
widely attributed to NYU professor Jay Rosen)—between us
and everyone else in the world.
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18. To press the point even further, the most important part of
this knowledge network, this new learning model, aren't the
links between the few of us who work at memory institutions.
The really powerful links are those that connect "our"
audience members to each other. Perhaps the most powerful
place for us, as museums, in this diagram is at the side, as
generous and helpful guides, catalysts, and conveners—as co-
participants—rather than as owners or monopolists.”
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