9. Is this really new?
• Public libraries, historical
societies have long served
as community centers for
local history, historic
preservation & family
history.
• Rootsweb created in 1987
as a listserv.
• Ancestry.com is now a
multi-million dollar
business because they were
able to provide the online
services this community
needed.
How can libraries, archives and museums
translate their deep experience as community
organizers into online spaces?
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12. Serious Leisure Careers
• Jenna Hartel: Three Temporal Arcs in the Hobby of Gourmet Cooking
http://www.jennahartel.com/TemporalArcs/ThreeTemporalArcs.htm
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17. The importance of flow underlines recurrent themes:
– the library needs to be in the user environment and not
expect the user to find their way to the library
environment
– integration of library resources should not be seen as an
end in itself but as a means to better integration with
the user environment, with workflow.
The message for libraries is clear:
be in the flow.
-Lorcan Dempsey
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34. Emerging Strengths - Local History
New
trolley
tracks,
Needham
Corner,
Main
Street,
Har^ord,
October
2,
1902.
Main
Street
south
from
Third
Street,
ca.1890
Los
Angeles
Downtown
Springfield,
1952
Springfield
Avia6on
Company
Main
Ave.,
Durango,
CO
Oct.
1965
Tombrello
Grocery
Market
106
Main
St.
Birmingham,
Alabama
37. Linked Open Data
• Linked
simple statements with meaningful relationships that
connect across the web
• Open
freely available for use, reference or reuse 37
58. Next Steps
• Push vendors to
make content
“spreadable”
• Explore ways to
make metadata &
vocabularies open
and linked.
• It’s not about “one”
system, it’s about
getting in the
flow.
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59. Challenges Ahead
• Changes happening outside…fast
• Changes that need to happen inside
– Rethinking what sharing means
– Mapping data across silos & services
• Dealing with abuse of information
• A culture of “permanent beta”
– Managing “brittle” services
• Who pays?
– How to measure public goods.
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60. • Richard J. Urban
– http://www.richardurban.net
– http://www.twitter.com/musebrarian
– rjurban [at] illinois.edu
Portions of this work supported by:
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61. Photo Credits
• Archival Photographic Files, [apf2-05961], Special Collections Research Center,
University of Chicago Library.
• Telephone Exchange, Anthony Hordern & Sons Department Store. Courtesy State
Library of New South Wales
http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/4275894278
• Crowd listenting to Bryan – Union Sq. Library of Congress
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163099447/
• Taft Speaking in Springfield, Mass. Courtesy Library of Congress
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2516566660/
• Antal Dorati conducts. Courtesy State Library of New South Wales.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3809422043/
• Battle of the Alamo Re-enactors. Courtesy Txphotoblog http://www.flickr.com/photos/
txphotoblog/3766706634/
• Aerial View of Downtown Springfield. Courtesy Lincoln Library
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imlsdcc/4120299798/in/set-72157622842546196
• Grain Elevators, Caldwell, Idaho. Courtesy Library of Congress
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178285893/
• C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill.
Courtesy Library of Congress
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178405119/
• Wagner Flagging Dawson. Courtesy Library of Congress
• Potted Arabidopsis 3 Courtesy blueridgekitties
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blueridgekitties/4123295969/in/pool-botanypotd/
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Jenna Hartel: Three Temporal Arcs in the Hobby of Gourmet Cooking http://www.jennahartel.com/TemporalArcs/ThreeTemporalArcs.htm
http://ebird.org/
http://imlsdcc.grainger.illinois.edu
Artifacts that tweet, historic people who tweet, historic people who blog “peeps” Pepys pepysdiary.com
*Seb Chan. “Spreadable collection: gaining insights from educational cut & paste” http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/abstracts/prg_335002199.html
"Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums" Report www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2008/2008-05.pdf
A simple example? Museum Pipes example.
* The Context Web http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002063.html
Linked Open Data as Serious Leisure “cooking your data”
Deaccessioning process. Good effects of making stuff public. Donations to allow the museum to keep art.
How to think about more than one way to spread content. Not ContentDM or Flickr but ContetnDM & Flickr and.. Etc. etc.