Summer Education Institute for
Visual Resources and Image Management
Keynote: Hybrid Worlds, Tim Castillo
The Web as a Cultural Archive
Evolving into a layered multidiscipline, multimedia repository.
Online applications such as Youtube, Google Earth and Picassa are become integrated resources for culture, geneaology, history, photographic history, and infrastructure awareness.
Social/New Media
Web 2.0
personal web
customization
organization
user importance
sharing stuff
networking
meaningful connections
collaboration
basic functions
tag
share
collect
KEEPING UP!?!?
We need to keep current with technology in order to serve an ever evolving and changing user base
resources: blogs
The Kept-Up Academic Librarian
ResourceShelf
iLibrarian
Emerging Technology Librarian (UM)
Museum 2.0*
Flickr blog
Google blog
Enhancing Services
Improving Our Visibility
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING!!
(Have a Social Media Policy)
Primary Resources
Facebook
Twitter
Blogs
Optimize these resources by adding apps to ensure they all crossfeed into one another
Augmented Reality
Metadata/Digital Imaging, Jenn Riley/Howard Brainen
The Future of Metadata
Metadata will be embedded in the digtal objects we catalog.
Metadata will be retrievable from more everyday objects.
It will ensure digital objects will endure and be able to evolve with access technoglogies.