discuss what we learned when we built an online mapping community for Native & non-Native youth, educators and community leaders. Our Pacific Northwest First Nations Totem Poles program teaches community members to collect, create, map, and curate content using mobile devices and an easily configurable content management system. Social curation helps our First Nation participants preserve their culture, language, arts, and writing by engaging participants across generations. Because how content is collected is just as important as the content itself, the program leverages social curation to build communities to harness social media and create “digital repositories” of cultural knowledge. Geographic data is a key social and technical component of the project — participants use GPS-enabled devices to ‘tag’ the locations of totem poles and to associate photographs and histories collected and written by the participants. The data is then assembled into both event-specific private websites accessible only to participants with the ability to push content to a public website – DiscoverTotems.com. The project is designed to be easily is designed to be re-deployed for different semesters in educational settings by non-technical event facilitators. Think “hack-a-thons for totem pole trackers”! In addition to describing the lessons learned, I will also cover issues in Privacy, Copyright, Security of Online Content, and how we leveraged Open Source Geospatial & Cloud technologies to scale and manage our new “digital repositories “.

1. The DiscoverTotems Project
Teaching
Social Curation, Clouds, Maps & Data Privacy
@discovertotems / @pythondj
Diane Mueller, Cloud Evangelist, Red Hat
dmueller@redhat.com
All content & images are Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Licensed unless otherwise noted.

4. Today's Menu
A Conversation about:
Social Media
Technology
Privacy Issues
&
A little bit of DIY

7. Open
Source
Totem Poles
MAPS
CLOUDS
SOCIAL MEDIA
Intersection of 4 Passions focused on an Obsession

12. Image: Library of Congress
“Discovered”
by
Captain
George
Vancouver
in 1792

13. This is where I live

15. at our schools & civic buildings..

16. in our shopping malls

18. even on our money…

23. • 1. Canada Place Totem Pole
49°17’16.42″N 123°6’49.29″W
49.287894,-123.113691
• 2. 5th and Main Totem Pole
49°15’59.65″N 123° 5’57.01″W
• 3. 3 Vets 7th and Yukon
• 4. Capilano Suspension Bridge Totem Poles
49°20’37.35″N,123° 6’46.43″W
• 5. Cates Park Deep Cove Totem Pole
49°18.112′N 122°57.308′W
49.331111,-123.035556
• 6. East Hastings Totem Poles
• 7. Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal Kwakiutl Bear Pole
49°22’26.22″N,123°16’22.73″W
• 8. Horseshoe Bay Park Totem Pole
49°22’30.38″N,123°16’30.96″W
• 9. Museum of Anthropology at UBC Totem Poles
49°16’9.62″N 123°15’38.48″W
• 10. Squamish Nation Totem Poles, North Vancouver
49°19’11.58″N,123° 7’34.32″W
• School
• 11. Stanley Park Totem Poles
49°17’57.67″N,123° 7’15.76″W
• 12. Thunderbird Marina Totem Poles
49°21’30.06″N, 123°16’1.20″W
• 17. West Vancouver Yacht Club Totem Pole
49°21’27.18″N,123°16’17.57″W
• 18. Re-patriated: Totem pole at CBC at Hamilton
& Georgia removed as of July, 2006
49.2796508054,-123.114234861
• 19. Canadian Tire Totem Pole on Cambie
49°15’54.18″N,123° 6’52.15″W
• 20. Haida Eagle and Frog Totem on Seymour Street
49°16’42.86″N, 123° 7’15.21″W
• 21. Capilano Mall Totem Poles by Norman Tait
• 22. Tomahawk Cafe Totem Poles
• 23. 1545 E Broadway (Native Housing Society
Series)
• 24. 1330 East 8th Avenue (Native Housing Society
Series)
• 25. 1333 East 7th Avenue (Native Housing Society
Series)
• 26. 1575 East 5th Avenue (Native Housing Society
Series)
• 27. 1560 East 4th Avenue (Native Housing Society
Series)
• 28. 1339 Graveley Street (Native Housing Society
Series)
• 29. 1856 East Georgia (Native Housing Society
Series)
LOTS OF DATA
AND
NO WAY TO SHARE IT

27. ● Privacy
● Attribution
● Sharing
● Accuracy
● Ownership
● Respect

28. `
So what do we do about this?
Hint: It involves some “Clouds”
&
some technology

33. Public Site
www.discovertotem.com
All content is CC
with attributions license
unless otherwise noted
Only PUBLICLY-ACCESSIBLE Totem
Poles are “Published”
Only if permission is granted by the
“Contributor”

38. Epiphany
The iPhone is Mightier
than the Sword

40. Two Steps to Internet Fame
● Step One
– OpenShift.Com
● Add account
● Check your email
● Step Two
– Log in to your new account
– Click on New Application
– Select WordPress
– Click on Create Application
– Create Word Press
– Install Totem-Map Plugin
–
–
– Add Content
Goal: Learn how to create & theme a WordPress Site

42. ● What's Your Passion?
● Share it with the World
● Create your own Blog
● Own your own Content
– Launch WordPress
– Add a Theme
– Add Some Content
– Tweet About it!

44. DiscoverTotems/Roy Henry Vickers
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

47. Next Up?
● Android App
● Layers with Other
Data Sets
● WP Multisite
● One Click Install for
Teachers
● Curriculum Guides