Theory and Practice of Building Digital Public Spaces
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This presentation introduces the concept of digital public spaces and how it has been taken up at Edmonton Public Library, with examples from EPL's first digital public space project, Capital City Records: Edmonton Local Music
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Theory and Practice of Building Digital Public Spaces
- 1. The Theory and Practice of Digital Public Spaces Alex Carruthers 2/10/2015 Info-Nexus February 6, 2015
- 2. Outline • Digital public spaces in the context of Edmonton Public Library (EPL) • Digital public spaces for other cultural organizations • Building EPL’s first digital public space 2
- 4. Digital Public Spaces Intern 4 • Engage in research and community consultation to define Digital Public Spaces • Determine potential roles for EPL • Investigate, recommend, and help plan EPL’s next steps in developing digital projects that meet community-defined needs • Investigate the role of EPL in supporting Open Data initiatives
- 7. Goals of the Report: • To meaningfully define the term “digital public space” for EPL • To identify trends in the development or improvement of digital public spaces in libraries or other cultural institutions • To investigate specific digital public space projects in more detail, learning about their successes, challenges and technical and administrative infrastructure • To recommend service directions for EPL 7
- 8. Who else is talking about digital public spaces? • BBC Archives • The Creative Exchange • Future Everything 2013 • Legal and technological implications • Why and how do libraries, museums, archives collect, store and make accessible cultural history? 8
- 9. What is a digital public space? 9
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- 11. Digital public spaces • Are open and interoperable in as many ways as possible “Open means anyone can freely access, use, modify, and share for any purpose (subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness).” – Open Definition 11
- 12. Who’s working on it? 12
- 13. Digital Public Library of America 13 http://dp.la/info/developers/
- 15. NYPL Labs – What’s on the Menu 15 ~ 1,327,975 dishes transcribed from 17,541 menus since 2012 Menus are reviewed and mapped http://menus.nypl.org/
- 16. “Far from being an instrument which enables us to ultimately better deliver content to end users, crowdsourcing is the best way to actually engage our users in the fundamental reason that these digital collections exist in the first place.” -Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist, Library of Congress 16
- 17. Digital public spaces • Can be created in collaboration with the public from the very beginning • Can fulfill the goal of facilitating meaningful engagement with collections 17
- 18. Building EPL’s First Digital Public Space Celebrating Local Music 18
- 19. How do we build one? 19 1. Successful projects have tended to be adaptations of experiments with existing collections of digital content 2. Successful projects have tended to appeal to an identifiable community or enthusiast group 3. Trained and dedicated staff are required to maintain the project
- 20. Building a digital collection 20
- 21. 21 • Unconference March 22, 2014 • Invited members of the local music community • 50 participants • Participant- driven meeting
- 22. What is an unconference? 22 SOMETHING NEW! SOMETHING NEW!
- 24. 24 Regularly changing content! Interactive site that reaches out to the community Curated by the community Multimedia content: audio, video, stories, images… Celebrate history AND support the current scene
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- 26. Contemporary Local Music Collection 26 • Edmonton music from the last 5 years in any genre • Selected by small jury of interested local music fans • 100 new contributions a year • One time honorarium for musicians • Music available for download and streaming • Direct traffic to options to purchase content
- 27. Local Music History Archive • Crowdsourced audio, video, images and stories related to local music history • For streaming and download when relevant • Audio content included in playlist tool • History preserved and made accessible 27 gdao.org
- 28. Legal Context 28
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- 33. Accessibility • Web Content Accessibly Standards Archiving • Support from the University of Alberta Digital Initiatives Department Partnerships • Dead Venues Project • Documentaries and Maps 33
- 34. Timeline • Call for submissions – Feb 2 – 23 • Jury review – Feb 23 – Mar 16 • Transcription tool development – March • Usability/beta testing – March/April • Launch Spring 2015 • Concerts in Summer and Fall 2015 • Summer Digitization Events 34
- 35. Digital Publics • Digital public is limited; digital divide exists along lines of race, class and gender • Digital literacy support is key • EPL offers courses for beginners all the way up to game design and robotics • Opportunity to integrate resources like Treehouse and Lynda.com • New publics are emerging and are open to collaboration • Sharing, community engagement and supporting lifelong learning 35
Notas do Editor
- An unconference is very broadly defined as “a participant-driven meeting.” The idea is to organize a gathering of people around a common purpose, but to reject the top-down organization of a typical conference. So rather than attending a conference to absorb the knowledge of the speakers, you attend to create knowledge with other participants. Unconferences are very much about conversation and relationships and our event was no different.
- The second and main activity of the day was Open Space Technology. This is basically where conference sessions were built by our guest. We said, “We are making a digital public space for Edmonton’s local music scene. What will/could/should it do?” We had two different time slots, and the potential for as many sessions as necessary in each time slot. Guests came up to the front, chose their slot and “venue” (a spot around the room that we cleverly named after music venues of Edmonton) and let the entire group know what they wanted to talk about in their session. At each venue we put up paper to help guide them and asked only that they try write down everything they discussed. Each guest was free to attend any of the sessions and contribute their thoughts, and they weren’t tied down – they could wander between sessions as discussions caught their interest. At the end of the day we had a large open discussion where people were free to make comments, add something they hadn’t got a chance to speak of, or ask questions. The day was very fluid and while Alex, Mark and I had an agenda, we didn’t share it with our guests and modified it throughout the day depending on the vibe in the room. It was a really successful day, and the only thing I would change, looking back, would be to have a second round of fresh coffee in the afternoon.
- The truth is, the result is an impressive amount of information. With very little prompting from us, our participants discussed which formats and types of content they’d like to see and what kind of functionality they wanted the site to have. They discussed problems they anticipated and proposed solutions to those problems. Many people suggested website and staffing models for us to follow. There were definitely contradictory recommendations that we had to balance. But we now have a sense of this community’s interests as they relate to many different aspects of the project. I should say that there were enough invitees who were unable to make it, but wanted to participate that we hosted another smaller event, a round table, that gave us additional information that was integrated into my final report.
- We came up with four priority features of the site that we hope to launch with