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
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Create workflows & procedures for site.
- A person must be responsible to care for online project
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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
