Mapping a Tornado Tragedy: A Crowdsourcing Case Study
This presentation refined the lessons learned about managing a crowdsourcing project in a public library. It was presented on April 17, 2018, at the Computers in Libraries conference in Arlington, Virginia. 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 ICPL 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 provides 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 in advance at history.icpl.org/tornado.
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- 1. Mapping a Tornado Tragedy A Crowdsourcing Case Study Computers in Libraries, April 17, 2018 Melody Dworak Iowa City Public Library history.icpl.org
- 2. The Project Managing Librarian
- 3. The Perfect Project Storm • Heart of Iowa City • Social hour • Historic houses • Population density
- 6. Digital Collections Omeka customization by Brent Palmer, ICPL IT Coordinator
- 8. Program
- 9. Display
- 13. • Selection is as important as inclusion • Control that Scope of Work • Offer models to guide projects Lessons Learned
- 14. Resources & Project Tools • 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
- 15. • Sood, Kiran. “Photos from 2006 tornado sought by Iowa City Public Library.” Published 2016-01-26. • Thanks to the Noun Project for the Creative Commons Icons • Librarian by Gan Khoon Lay • Folder icons by Linseed Studio • Tornado by Bart Laubsch • Card Game by XOXO • Design by rivercon References & Illustration Credits Melody Dworak, 319-877-6006, melody-dworak@icpl.org