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Saturday 10th March 2012

• Making Stories: Libraries & Community Publishing

  by Amy Buckland, Char Booth, Michael Porter, Nate Hill and Amy Buckland

  Good libraries are community-minded, technologically-aware, devoted to increasing access to information, and interested in preserving the local cultural heritage. Good newspapers aggregate and curate information for their readers, prioritize the local population, and are the record of a place, a time, a citizenry. Both believe they must tell stories for everyone, not just themselves.
  Libraries have experience with media production, and are already a known community resource. Supporting communication within their community falls within the library’s mandate to increase access to information. Building on the “maker” ethic, how can libraries help their communities make their own news, write their own stories, publish their own histories?

  • Community
  • Libraries
  • Publishing
  • sxswLAM

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Room 6AB, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage slide deck slide deck slide deck slide deck audio clip

Sunday 11th March 2012

• Libros digitales para todos/eBooks for Everybody

  by Martin Kalfatovic and Alvin Hutchinson

  12% of U.S. adults currently own an e-reader; Hispanics are the largest demographic in that group with 15% owning an e-reader. Though there are many Spanish-language options available for this reading community, mainstream offerings still cater to a largely English language community. Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL), as part of its efforts to move beyond page image presentation of library content, is making a focused effort to bring quality, scholarly and other materials in Spanish to the e-reading community. With a grass-roots effort to identify appropriate materials, SIL hopes to build a space where there are "Libros digitales para todos".

  • eBooks
  • Language
  • Libraries
  • Smithsonian
  • Spanish
  • sxswLAM

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Room 5ABC, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip

Tuesday 13th March 2012

• Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web

  by Adrian Stevenson, Jon Voss, Julie Allinson and Rachel Frick

  What happens when tens of thousands of archival photos are shared with open licenses, then mashed up with geolocation data and current photos? Or when app developers can freely utilize information and images from millions of books? On this panel, we'll explore the fundamental elements of Linked Open Data and discover how rapidly growing access to metadata within the world's libraries, archives and museums is opening exciting new possibilities for understanding our past, and may help in predicting our future. Our panelists will look into the technological underpinnings of Linked Open Data, demonstrate use cases and applications, and consider the possibilities of such data for scholarly research, preservation, commercial interests, and the future of cultural heritage data.

  • Libraries
  • Linked Data
  • Linked Open Data
  • Museums
  • Open Data
  • sxswLAM

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Room 10AB, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip slide deck slide deck