Ethical Exchange, Collaborative Curation, and Sustained Support: Mukurtu

[http://www.mukurtu.org] Kim Christen Withey, Mukurtu, Washington State University I’m going to talk about three best practices: ethical exchange, collaborative curation, and sustained support. I like alliterations obviously. These grow out of my role as project director of Mukurtu, which is a free and open source content management system built with the needs of indigenous communities in mind, but I think these are just [...]

By |2017-05-18T22:48:38-04:00October 20th, 2015|Case Study, Diversity, Heritage, Human Rights|Comments Off on Ethical Exchange, Collaborative Curation, and Sustained Support: Mukurtu

Learning to Trust the Crowd: Smithsonian Transcription Center Case Study

[https://transcription.si.edu] Meghan Ferriter, Smithsonian Transcription Center I continue to hear issues related to sharing information and that is the one that stands out the most to me, whether that is sharing information on how to do what we are doing already really well, or how to improve, how to accept and receive feedback from our peer community here and elsewhere: “You’re doing that [...]

By |2017-05-18T22:48:38-04:00October 19th, 2015|Case Study, Heritage, Libraries|Comments Off on Learning to Trust the Crowd: Smithsonian Transcription Center Case Study

Creating Compelling Narratives with Data: NYPL Labs, New York Public Library Case Study

[http://www.nypl.org/collections/labs] Ben Vershbow, New York Public Library I had trouble distilling this. My challenges have kind of churned and mixed into the conversations we had earlier. I have tried to group them into a few categories and the challenges are around the why. Why are we doing this? There are many answers to that question depending on the project, on the [...]

By |2015-11-17T17:37:13-05:00October 9th, 2015|Case Study, Heritage, Libraries|Comments Off on Creating Compelling Narratives with Data: NYPL Labs, New York Public Library Case Study

Case Study: Shelley-Godwin Archive

[http://shelleygodwinarchive.org] Neil Fraistat, MITH, University of Maryland I’m here because of a project I direct called the Shelley-Godwin Archive, which consists of the digitized manuscripts of Percy and Mary Shelley, and Mary Shelley’s parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. We received a grant from the NEH to start the project up and the project partners are the New York Public Library, the [...]

By |2017-05-18T22:48:38-04:00September 28th, 2015|Case Study, Heritage, Libraries|Comments Off on Case Study: Shelley-Godwin Archive
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