Creating Communities of Interest Around Museum Collections Intro

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Creating “Communities of Interest”

with Library, Archive, and Museum

Collections

Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian LibrariesEffie Kapsalis, Smithsonian ArchivesDarren Milligan, Smithsonian Center for Education & Museum Studies

Museum Computer Network 2010

The Competition

Neil Young Archive

• 2.9 million emails/second• 50 million tweets/day• 700 billion Facebook minutes/month •13 hours/minute video added to YouTube• 2.5 billion photos/month added to Flickr

Heartbeat getting recorded at Christian Boltanski's exhibition, by C-Monster

We have our unique qualities

• Quantity• Authenticity• Curation/Archiving/Cataloging

Agenda

• Brief case studies from the Smithsonian

• Small group workshop

Martin Kalfatovickalfatovicm@si.edu, twitter: UDCMRK

Effie Kapsaliskapsalise@si.edu, twitter: digitaleffie

Darren Milliganmilliganm@si.edu

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