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From Audience to Avatar? Transforming the cultural experience towards 2012
Dr Liz Lyon
Director, UKOLN
MLA Digital Futures Strategy Workshop, September 2007
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19th May 2006
6th September 2007
…in cultural spaces???
1. Digital Strategy goes beyond “digitisation”2. Cultural assets scope is learning and scholarly research3. The Web is “sector-agnostic”4. User-driven Culture2.0 is here now5. The Google Generation are tomorrow’s “curators” 6. “Always beta” & agile development cycles impact service delivery7. Visitors move in, between and through, physical and virtual worlds 8. We can learn from business and media…..
Working assumptions, position statements
Digital memories, digital livesToday’s events = tomorrow’s memories for mlas
Flickr & YouTube : community memory?
JISC CREW project : recording events & human discourse
Assisting recall?
Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research, MyLifeBits Project
Microsoft Research SenseCam :
life-logging
Institutional: legacy digital surrogates, born digital media, massive digitisation projects, OA
Personal archives
Liberating collections
Community content
Reference data: sensor-nets, environmental, geospatial, demographic, genomic
Sustainable preservation models? UK, regional, local authority, institutional, commercial data warehouse?
2012
An understanding of “trust”?
Repository audit & certification
Use toolkits like DRAMBORA?
Enriching the cultural record: digital curation
• Tagging, annotation & (micro) comments
• Reviews, ratings, authority & recommendations
• Identifiers, links, usage, PIs & targets
• Mash-ups, mixes & cut ‘n paste culture
• Mining
> 200 blogs
Understanding Web behaviours
Community curatorial role?
Leveraging cross-sectoral partnerships
• Second Life >50,000 concurrent users Sep 07, data visualisation, 3D objects & structures
• Build simulations and/or mimic Real Life
• Link objects & travel in-world & between worlds
• Visitor avatars : new experiences
University of Sheffield Centre for Information Literacy SL office
Avon Gallery
Transforming the experience: cultural second lives
“Audience” metaphor is too passive
SL challenges citizen concepts of “identity”
“What if?” learning
Collaborations with education & media?
UKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007 35 Recs for JISC
Roles, Rights, Responsibilities,
Relationships: scientist, institution, data centre, user, funder, publisher
RIN April 2007
5 Principles: Roles & responsibilities, standards & QA, access, usage & credit, benefits & cost-effectiveness, preservation & sustainability
Strategic approaches & policy
2012 Cultural Olympiad
Digital divide raises social policy issues
But….
Unique opportunity to engage millennials….
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Questions?
Slides will be available on Slideshare and at :
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html