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Curating Cultural Content - Libraries Save Your Ass & Etchings

Event Interactive 2010
Format Panel
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.
Questions
Answered
  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