Oh...I certainly don't want to make anyone feel old. I am just so  
excited about the current wave of online activities because I see so  
much opportunity for museum/community pedagogy experimentation and I  
am energized to jump in! It certainly seems entirely new but what I  
like are the spaces for history to become more integrated into the  
present.

-my .75 Canadian!

> Chantelle Oliver
> OISE/University of Toronto
> Walrus Magazine Technology Department
> www.chantelleoliver.com

On 22-Jan-08, at 11:48 AM, Cindy Boyer wrote:

> Crowdsourcing.
>
> Meatspace.
>
> I think I feel old.
>
> (Chantelle, that's more than 2 cents - that's more like 75 cents.  
> At current exchange rates, let's keep it in CAD!)
>
> Cindy Boyer
> Director of Museums and Education
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> Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] the Library of Congress on Flickr
>
> It is more than just an opportunity for user access. Crowdsourcing
> the onerous task of tagging/SEO-ing/researching digitized materials
> is, in my research and work, a way to _translate_ collections on line
> in ways that utilize the emerging social and semantic technologies to
> move beyond merely early 90s style emulation of meatspace. Not only
> does your collection get organized/worked on for free but socialized,
> publicized and spread with potential for as-yet undefined pedagocial
> richness.
>
> My two cents.
> Chantelle Oliver
> OISE/University of Toronto
> Walrus Magazine Technology Department
> www.chantelleoliver.com
>
>
> On 21-Jan-08, at 2:33 PM, Tim Atherton wrote:
>
>> Interesting to see the LoC is starting to put parts of it's photo
>> collection up online on Fickr for easy access. reasonable sized
>> files that you can print from (though not as big as many they have
>> online on their database - but which are harder to find)
>>
>> Same, on a smaller scale - with the Wisconsin Historical Society.
>>
>> Good way to make collections accessible.
>>
>> http://www.galleryhopper.org/?p=535
>>
>> http://www.galleryhopper.org/?p=536
>>
>> http://www.photoprogress.org/archives/257/library-of-congess-on-
>> flickr/
>>
>> http://www.galleryhopper.org/?p=540
>>
>>
>>
>> tim a
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim Atherton
>> Assistant Curator
>> Musée Héritage Museum, St. Albert
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