A presentation on how museums, libraries and archives (memory organizations) deliver public history using Interactive Communications Technologies in a world of always connected Internet users.

1. HistoryConnected Content Engagement Stories “In the late 1960s Dad became a key player in the U.S. Space program… “ Rose Sherman, rose.sherman@mnhs.org December 2009

2. HistoryConnected Rose Sherman, rose.sherman@mnhs.org Director of Enterprise Technology, Minnesota Historical Society Still Do Online Exhibits and Collections Search What’s Next? Everyone’s a Historian More Digitization User Generated Content Collaborative History Content Mashups Probing the Deep Web Virtual Past Always Connected Institutional Voice, Reliability, Radical Trust

3. Poll: Who’s Here? How Comfortable / Familiar With Web 2.0 Are You? Tag Clouds Wikis Social Networking Geo- Coded Folksonomy RSS Blogs Podcasts

4. Who’s Here? RSS http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanislands/3978081022/ Geo- Coded

5. HistoryConnected part 1 … Content Digitize content and make it accessible online

6. Content Digitization by Museum & Libraries Images, Maps, Audio, Video, Documents, Newspapers … Using the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine to archive today’ online newspapers. mnhs.org/collections/kstp National Digital Newspaper Program a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress to build a national digital resource of newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. mnhs.org/truenorth

7. Research Databases

8. Research Databases

9. Online Encyclopedias

11. HistoryConnected Stories part 2 … Stories Tell stories elaborated with objects from the collections

12. Tell Stories via Interpretative Web Sites

13. Tell Stories via Podcast

14. Virtual Past Virtual World: What is Second Life? A 3D online virtual world imagined created and owned by its residents. It has islands, buildings, objects and avatars that interact with each other. http://www.slideshare.net/ialja/virtual-worlds-introduction-second-life-and-beyond?src=related_normal&rel=80946

15. Virtual Past Virtual Reality Enriched WithCollections and Interpretation Monticello Explorer http://explorer.monticello.org Fort Snelling Perspectives prototype http://romereborn.virginia.edu Digital model of Rome in 320 ADUniversity of Virginia IATH Goal: Expand to Bronze Age and Medieval Period using data from community of archeologists.

16. Future: Always Connected Ubiquitous History Location Aware (GPS) Smart Phones – iPhones, Android phones enable history to be engaged where it happened … photos, interpretation and gather visitor stories. http://city.slicker.com/charleston-tours/

17. HistoryConnected Engagement “In the late 1960s Dad became a key player in the U.S. Space program…” part 3 … Engagement Crowdsourcing Personal Connections User Generated Content Stories, Video, Comments, Mashups

18. Everyone’s a historian now “Online gathering spots like these represent a potentially radical change to historical research, a craft that has changed little for decades, if not centuries. By aggregating the grass-roots knowledge and recollections of hundreds, even thousands of people, "crowdsourcing," as it's increasingly called, may transform a discipline that has long been defined and limited by the labors of a single historiantoiling in the dusty archives ” http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/25/everyones_a_historian_now

19. Self Publishing Blogs Juhan suku-uutiset Genealogy and history from Finland, sometimes even in English. Documented sources. http://juhansuku.blogspot.com See also: http://blogfinder.genealogue.com

20. Social TechnographicsTM Creators Critics Collectors Joiners Spectator

21. Public Documentation User Generated Content http://youtube.com/results?search_query=hugo+tornado&search_type= http://flickr.com/photos/chadwho1ders/2523836732

23. Release history to the people

24. Enriches collection information

25. More descriptive info

26. Geo-tag

27. “Collective Intelligence”http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2515741495

28. Incorporate Visitor Photos on Our Site

29. User Generated Content Storytelling http://people.mnhs.org/mgg/story.cfm?storyid=1003

30. User Generated Content Storytelling Hurricane Digital Memory Bank http://hurricanearchive.org/object/2797

31. Video Produced by the Public

32. Collaborative History Placeography A wiki about any place anywhere that anyone can edit. Geo-coded data Architectural info History Chronology Memories & Stories Citations Related Content Photos http://placeography.org

33. “pay tribute by adding photos, comments and stories of those who lost their lives during the Vietnam conflict. “ Collaborative History Footnote Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial Footnote partnered with NARA to link the service records and casualty reports to each name on the Wall. http://go.footnote.com/thewall?xid=159 http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-77.html

34. Collaborative Historywotr Record Annotation Tool

36. Content Mashups USGS Seismology Data + Yahoo Maps Google Maps + Wikipedia Articles Real Time, World Wide Earthquake List A mashup is a web application that uses content from more than one source to create a new service. http://lerdorf.com/php/ymap/yquakes.php http://www.placeopedia.com

37. Probing the Deep Web Finding Information Inside Databases and Across Collections A Bush Foundation funded project to provide access to cultural heritage information across MN, ND and SD. find mnhs.org/peoplefinder mnhs.org/keywordfinder

38. Always Connected to Internet Digital History Content is Ubiquitous

39. What About Reliability? Institutional Voice? “We can only build emergent systems if we have radical trust. With an emergent system, we build something without setting in stone what it will be or trying to control all that it will be. We allow and encourage participants to shape and sculpt and be co-creators of the system. We don't have a million customers/users/patrons ... we have a million participants and co-creators.“ Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan Libraries, 2 April 2006, “Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Radical Trust: A First Take”

42. Audiences

43. Opportunity : Ask question related to current events …

45. Questions? Brilliant Ideas? Rose Sherman, Director Of Enterprise Technology Minnesota Historical Society Rose.sherman@mnhs.org Twitter.com/rasherman Twitter.com/mnhs Twitter.com/1968_project http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/125421