Collecting Online Quickly:
Forms, Phones, & APIs
 

Sheila A. Brennan

Director of Strategic Initiatives

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media

@sherah1918

 

Community Participation @RRCHNM

September 11 Digital Archive

911digitalarchive.org

Simple Form

+ phone number to record audio

Continue to Collect

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

hurricanearchive.org

Form & Skype #

Flickr  API -> Import

Occupy Archive

occupyarchive.org

Form

Flickr API -> Import

Zotero API -> Import

Sharing Process

Encourage by building

omeka.org

Data that goes in must come out

Others can respond

http://baltimoreuprising2015.org/

Challenges

  • Need person willing to be tech lead, but not an expert
  • Collecting portal need attention (approvals)
  • Slim or no metadata
  • Plan for more outreach & collaboration time than the online stuff
  • Conflicts between openness, speed, org procedures & structures of collaborating groups

Work Arounds

  • Create workflows & procedures for site.
    • A person must be responsible to care for online project
  • Everyone needs to let go:
    • Raw archives are okay
    • New procedures req'd for new collections.
    • Listen
  • Make time for Face2Face meetings, events.

 

Online Collecting

Thank You!

Sheila A. Brennan

 

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media,
George Mason University

 

@sherah1918

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