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Title:

Curating Cultural Content - Libraries Save Your Ass & Etchings

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Organizer:
Jessamyn West, MetaFilter.com
Description:
How are libraries responding to the firehose of cultural content when deciding how to curate digital media? What does it mean to be an online archive or library in an age of user-generated content? Librarians, quasi-librarians and techies will share tips ideas and the usual horror stories.
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  1. What is an online library and how is it different from a digital archive, or is it?
  2. How are librarians deciding what to put online?
  3. How are librarians putting stuff online in both hardware and software terms?
  4. What does it mean to be a library online when everyone's content is online?
  5. Why does classification and categorization matter in the age of Google?
  6. What do librarians bring to the table when working with online content?
  7. Who besides libraries is getting into the online archives business?
  8. How are the non-libraries and the libraries working together in these endeavors?
  9. How do you pay for stuff like this?
  10. Nothing could go wrong in these situations, could it?
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Back-End Programming / Databases, Collaborative Filtering, Content, Non-Profits, User Generated Content
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
jessamyn west
on 17/8/09
We don't have the archives thing sorted yet, so it's the Wild West in terms of figuring out what to put online and how to do it. We'll look at people doing it a bunch of different ways. Proposed panelists include

- George Oates formerly of Flickr and now doing awesome stuff with Open Library through the Internet Archive.
- David Lee King, manager of a virtual branch library at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library in Kansas
- Josh Greenberg, head of Digital Strategy at NYPL

Everyone will talk quickly and I will promise to keep them all on topic. Join us!
Kenley Neufeld
on 20/8/09
Go David and jessamyn
Ryan Claringbole
on 21/8/09
A great topic. I remember attending an archivist convention in Milwaukee, WI a couple years ago addressing the needs and concerns of digital archives; the cost and concerns that goes into it. Sounds like an extremely promising presentation! Curious if you plan on addressing the problems/solutions regarding transferring different formats into one general area?
Danielle Plumer
on 25/8/09
Sounds great!
nicky skye
on 3/9/09
Go for it Jessamyn!
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Curious if you plan on addressing the problems/solutions regarding transferring different formats into one general area?
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