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Links and notes from JOMC 191.8 Virtual Communities

Archivists’ Toolkit

CRADLE Presentation, Friday, February 10, 2006
Location: Room 208, Manning Hall
Time: 12 – 1:00 PM
Title: The Archivist’s Toolkit
Presenter: Bradley Westbrook, UC-San Diego

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $847,000.00 to the UCSD Libraries, the NYU Libraries, and the Five College Libraries to support development and implementation of a software application to support archival processing and the management of archival information. Key objectives of the project are to increase archival processing efficiencies and lower processing costs, including costs for specialized training; reduce the need for locally built tools; and promote standardization. When completed, the application will support collection accessioning and description, location tracking, and provenance registration, as well as outputs for the EAD and METS standards.

Bradley D. Westbrook is the Metadata Librarian and Digital Archivist at the University of California, San Diego. Prior positions include Manuscripts Librarian and University Archivist at UCSD, Exhibits Curator at Columbia University, and Rare Books Librarian at Kent State University. He has an MLS from UCLA and an MA in English from SUNY-Albany. He has been active in RBMS and SAA and is currently a member of the SAA Technical Subcommittee for Descriptive Standards. He has given numerous presentations on archives, special collections themes and has published on virtual collections and the Archivists’ Toolkit (forthcoming).

Bradley talks a lot about why they chose Open Source and community-building as an important part of their approach. Archivists’ Toolkit will be on SourceForge. Hooks to Institutional Repositories (like Fedora and Dspace) are planned. Plan to ship on June 2006 as Alpha, Beta to partners in July, and public release in November 2006.

Blogging 101 with Anton and Brian

Anton Zuiker writes with this alert:

Join us for a technology teach-in. Learn about the history and development of weblogs, how to start your own blog in just 5 minutes, and how to read other blogs through theirnewsfeeds. We’ll also cover podcasts, wikis and other online communication tools. This free event is open to anyone who wants to learn about blogging. UNC staff Anton Zuiker and Brian Russell will lead.

* What: Blogging 101: Everything you need to knowabout weblogs, podcasts & newsfeeds.

* When: Tuesday, February 28, 12 noon – 1 p.m.

* Where: Health Sciences Library, Room 307-Biogen Classroom

* More Info: 919.966.2329 or www.blogtogether.org.

Can’t join us? Find local bloggers at the Chapel Hill Bloggers Meetup on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month at 7 p.m. at 3CUPS coffeebar in the West End Courtyard.

Forecasting the Internet

I love suggesting Ithiel de Sola Pool‘s 1983 research book Forecasting the Telephone to folks interested in New Media and media futures. The beauty of the work is that it looks at what experts and others said that the telephone would do to our lives. With the advent of cell phones, we can say that the telephone is still a work in progress technically, socially and culturally which at least partially puts to question the subtitle of the book “A Retrospective Technology Assessment of the Telephone”. Still there is much the be learned therein.

The folks at Elon University and the Pew Center for Internet and American Life started earlier in the technology cycle with a like study of Internet Predictions with their Imaging the Internet – Predictions Database.

The database project is more than a database; it provides access to a great collection of references to early and mid-1990s books, articles and personalites. I haven’t read the book that came from this project, “Imagining the Internet : Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives” by Janna Quitney Anderson the director of the project which came out in paper this summer, but I plan to.

I also like and dislike Carolyn Marvin’s When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communications in the Late 19th Century for various reasons to complicated to go into here. Interestingly enough the Marvin book is offered as a package with the Anderson book at Amazon.

ibiblio banned in China?

Fred notices that while google.com searches with site:ibiblio.org retrieves over 7.6 million results. The same search on google.cn only returns 1.6 million.

Things do vary. I just got 4,220,000 for site:ibiblio.org on google.com and 1.6 million on google.cn (as Fred did).
But when I add tibet to the search as in site:ibiblio.org tibet
at .com I get only 688 and at .cn I get 1,140!
I do get different result orders.
When I add mongol as in site:ibiblio.org tibet mongol, at .cn I get 63 including one that reads:

Mongol-Tibet.Net is intended to cover things commonly related to the Mongol and Tibetan nations, people who are closely connected to each other, in many ways, along their history . There are some subsites which are on separate topics but are related to the main topic of this site. You will also find information on some other regions and people, especially the ones from Central Asia, who might somehow be related either to Mongolia or to Tibet. We would like to present certain concerns about the situations in Southern/Inner Mongolia and Tibet, whose people are suffering under the colonial rule of the People’s Republic of China. We would also like to provide information on the Uighur region, Burma and others.

Looking for ibiblio sysadmin 2

We just got our opening for the ibiblio sysadmin listed on the UNC Human Resources site. If you qualify and want to work in a great and challenging and rewarding job, go and apply soon!

Job Title: Systems Specialist
Working Title: Systems Specialist
Job Category: Technical, Para-professional
Position Number: 0053597
Salary Grade/Range: BAND III / $45,000 – $95,000
FT/PT: Full Time
Hours Per Week: 40
Permanent/Time Limited: Permanent
Department Name: School Of Info & Libr Science
Department Number: 3701
Date First Posted: 01/25/2006
Closing Date: 02/10/2006
Location: Chapel Hill

Minimum Education and Experience:
The specialist band requires a foundation of knowledge and skills in area of specialization generally obtained from graduating from a four-year college or university with a major in information technology, computer science, or a closely related field and three years of experience in operations analysis and design, systems programming, or a closely related field. Experience in the field of work related to the position’s role may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
PLEASE NOTE: All IT positions have moved to a new Career Banding compensation program. For additional information, please refer to our website for details. Specific competencies are required for the different banded levels and roles. This position is being recruited for at the Journey Competency Level under this Career Banding program.
The hiring range for the Journey Level is $64,167 – $77,000.

Preferred Qualifications:
This position will help run one of the world’s most recognized net-entities! ibiblio.org is completely dedicated to open source and to open information. We are looking for a systems specialist to join our team and to lead in the architecture and administration of the ibiblio technical infrastructure.

Prefer strong experience with Linux, LVS, Advanced Networking, Security, Databases (mySQL), Apache, and large scale server management. Previous ISP or high traffic infrastructure management experience a big plus. This position will also be involved in the management of highly motivated student employees and in interactions with international contributors as well as local groups and research faculty. This position will be a liaison to vendors, a presenter at conferences and occasional co-researcher with faculty.

Special Physical/Mental Requirements:
None Listed.

Position/Work Schedule Requirements: M-F 800 – 500

Fredmania – Facebook and Fred on Carolina Week

I just got back from a great talk by Koleman Strumpf at Duke Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. He’s added movie trading to his file-sharing study so I got to hear a lot of new news. Basically, trading movies is now worse economically than trading music (at the current quality levels at least).
But when I got back, Fred and a guy from Carolina Week had taken over my office. Except for my shabby mess, it looked like a TV studio. Fred’ll be on later in the week talking about FaceBook and social networking.

Let There Be Wifi (and more)

Phil Meyer alerts us to this Washington Monthly article by John Podesta and Robert McChesney, “Let There Be Wifi”.

Let There Be Wi-Fi
Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century—and much of America is being left in the dark.

Two decades ago, the chattering classes fretted about economic upheaval rising from Japan and the Asian Tigers. They feared an invasion of cars, microchips, and Karaoke that would take away American jobs, take over U.S.-dominated industries, and shift cultural norms. In the 1990s, America responded with a boom in high technology and Hollywood exports. But a revolution is again brewing in places like Japan and South Korea. This time it’s about “broadband”—a technology that, in terms of powering economies, could be the 21st century equivalent of electricity. But rather than relive the jingoism of the 1980s, American policy makers would be wise to take a cue from the Asian innovators and implement new policies to close the digital divide at home and with the rest of the world.

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Fredmania – Facebook and Fred on Future Tense

You can’t hear Future Tense on local NPR stations, but you can hear Fred’s interview on the Future Tense website — they even podcast if you’d like to get FT regularly. Here’s what the FT site has to say (but listen too):

Researcher studies Facebook use by college freshmen at UNC

Facebook is an online social networking directory that has become the rage on college campuses since it debuted in 2004. College students have created around six million accounts. Students make personal profiles pages, which typically contain photos. They can exchange messages, and join groups of friends. Profiles often contain a lot of personal information, such as relationship status and sexual preference.

Fred Stutzman, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, has just completed a study of Facebook use by freshman from the class of 2009.

Fred’s Facebook Final Report

Okay, it’s not a final report, but it’s an end of Fall semester analysis. Fred has been reviewing the Facebook usage at UNC in aggregate (not in detail) for the past semester and he has some very interesting findings. Check them all out at his blog. Much insight into UNC students’ political self-identity, ideas and practices of privacy, taste in music, books and film.

Podcastercon on the Air (NBC 17)

Podcastercon organizer Brian Russell and I will be doing an interview with folks from NBC 17 on Thursday morning to be aired later that day or Friday. I hope we’ll be as interesting as the Israeli Owner-Dog Look-a-like contest piece that they ran tonight. A pug and his owner won. (Note: Sally and I and our salukis won a local owner-dog look-a-like contest some years back, but who isn’t glad to be indentified with a saluki!).


Don’t forget that Podcastercon is coming on Saturday!

And, Brian writes, the site is completely wheel chair accessible.

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