ISIS TechTuesdays Talk for January 23
From Jomc490
Announcement of the talk on the ISIS site
ibiblio.org is the Public's Library and Digital Archive
http://ibiblio.org/images/oct2006/oct2006banner.jpg
"We help people who want to share information freely and legally"
- Created in 1992 as sunsite.unc.edu
- In 1998 we became metalab.unc.edu
- In 2000 we became ibiblio.org
"We are now enjoying our 15th year of service to the Net."
About ibiblio.org
What I said in 1992
Archives look for interesting collections; we look for interesting people creating interesting collections in interesting ways. We collect the collectors and empower them.
What I said in 2001
Open (source)ing the doors for contributor-run digital libraries Communications of the ACM. Volume 44, Issue 5 (May 2001). Pages: 45 - 46.
By adopting not only the open-source tools, but also the open-source philosophy encouraging community interaction and contributor involvement, digital libraries can open new horizons to new communities as well as greatly improve traditional services.
Duke Purchases Public Domain - April 1 2004
2006 of ibiblio
Four Communities
- Degree Confluence Project - covering the earth
- Linux Documentation Project - Free documentation in every language
- Groklaw - Law and Technology from a FreeSoftware point of view
- eTree - legal music trading of live concerts
Some Selected Archives
- Folkstreams.net - A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures
- Open Video Project - A shared digital video collection
- Project Gutenberg - the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks)
- Roger McGuinn's Folk Den - over 10 years of music in the folk tradition
Four Big Ideas
Power of Contributors
- Craigslist
- Wikipedia
- YouTube
- Red Hat Linux
- FYI - ibiblio.org receives about 4 requests for hosting a week.
Good for Contributors, Tough for Archives
- Wikis - good versioning, multi-author, often database driven
- Blogs - good archiving, poor versioning, comments (and articles) multi-author, often database driven
- BBoards, Forums, etc - okay archiving, poor if any versioning, always multi-author, always database driven
Lyceum -- the Open Source Blogsphere
Gotta Talk about Tagging
- Is everything miscellaneous?
- Or can it be made orderly by some Core values?
What happened with ranking?
What new materials?
- Databases - how to preserve?
Bad for All?
- Spam - should it be archived?
- Exploits - can they been removed effectively?
- Who maintains the archives?
- Should sensitive information be edited or removed from the archive?
