notes & links

Archivists in a Web 2.0 World: How Can We Make Social Software Tools Work for Us?
University of Idaho
19 May 2007

Here are the links to the resources I presented at the 2007 NWA conference. At the bottom of this post, I’ve included some places you can go if you want to find more like this:

Tools and Applications

Google Documents and Spreadsheets

Zoho Writer

Flickr

PennTags

Projects and Collections

OurOntario

OurOntario is part of the larger Knowledge Ontario project. This piece of the project collects digital cultural content about Ontario from: libraries, archives, museums, cultural heritage institutions, community groups, and individuals.

It is also a wonderful example of the openness, user focus and interoperability of the Read/Write web.

OurOntario: Yours to Recover
A presentation by Walter Lewis and Art Rhyno at the 2007 Access Conference. They discuss the technology behind the project, and the collaborative, social aspects of it.

BBC History: The Abolition of the Slave Trade

This interactive narrative of the abolition of the British slave trade is built on Google Maps, but integrates text and images from a wide variety of archives, libraries and other sources.

To explore further

Google Maps Mania
This blog provides an almost-comprehensive list of mashups based on Google Maps - an impressive feat.

Digital History Hacks
This blog by William Turkel at the University of Western Ontario discusses the use of the emerging web in the history classroom, as well as larger issues related to technology and education.

Research Instruction in a Web 2.0 World
Library Instruction 2.0:Empowering the Learner
CCLI Spring Workshop
California State University, Sacramento
11 May 2007

All of the resources presented in this talk are available via this Trailfire trail. Each webpage has a Trailfire note attached to it.

Click on the navigation arrows in the top corner of this note to move to the next resource:

http://trailfire.com/amlibrarian/trailview/36996

Or, use the links below to go directly where you want to go.

Tools to try

Google Docs and Spreadsheets

Zoho Writer

Picnik

del.icio.us network explorer

Blackboard Scholar

Google Maps

TagCrowd

LibraryThing

Sample projects

Soweto Uprisings

Beth H: Art History with Flickr Notes

Globalization Resources (Trailfire)
A trail of 14 pages, marked with comments, by KenSteinNYCDOE

Using Wikipedia to Explore a Topic. Oregon State University Libraries & WR 121

PrezTags

Young Adult Literature Ning

Information literacy and knowledge production

The Social Life Of Books: Write, read, blog, rip, share any good books lately? A conversation with Ben Vershbow
Andrew Richard Albanese
Library Journal
5/15/2006
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6332156.html

if:book blog
http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/

Information literacy, discovery and community

A cognitive analysis of tagging
Rashmi Sinha
Everyday Cognition on the Web
http://www.rashmisinha.com/archives/05_09/tagging%20cognitive.html#000143

Information literacy as a liberal art
Shelley K. Hughes & Jeremy J. Shapiro
Educom Review (Volume 31, Number 2)
March/April 1996
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewarticles/31231.html

If everything is information, how is information literacy possible?
Selley K. Hughes & Jeremy J. Shapiro
Plenary address presented at the 2006 WILU Conference
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
http://library.acadiau.ca/wilu/programme/OpeningPlenary.ppt (opens in PowerPoint)

Infotangle (Elyssa Kroski)
This might just be the best blog there is for deep, researched, insightful analysis of emerging technologies and librarianship. She doesn’t update often, but don’t worry, you’ll need the time between posts to read and absorb. You should put this blog into your feeds and follow it regularly, but for now, see these posts on online community:
*Community 2.0
*Online community and libraries, parts 1 & 2 and parts 3 & 4

Information literacy and openness

Social software: E-learning beyong learning management systems
Christian Dalsgaard
European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
2006
http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2006/Christian_Dalsgaard.htm

Read, Write, Share: Emerging Technologies in the WIC Classroom

Google Documents (http://docs.google.com)

Flickr (http://flickr.com)

Picnik (http://picnik.com)

Flickr notes - art history example (http://flickr.com/photos/ha112/234233755/)

Soweto Uprisings (Google Maps Mashup) (http://sowetouprisings.com/site/)

PrezTags (http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/)

TagCrowd (http://tagcrowd.com)

Google+Craigslist housing mashup (http://www.housingmaps.com/)

Rentometer mashup (http://www.rentometer.com/)

Find By Click - Starbucks mashup (http://www.findbyclick.com/starbucks/)

Pubwalk mashup (http://www.pubwalk.com/)

The Machine is Us/ing Us (Youtube video) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g)

To find more:

Google Maps Mashups: Google Maps Mania (http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com)

Mashups: Programmable Web (http://programmableweb.com)

Information Visualizations:

• Information Aesthetics (http://infosthetics.com/)
• Visual Complexity (http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/)