How to destroy special collections with social media
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How to destroy special collections with social media
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#2Good talk. I enjoyed the fact that she put up both a voice recording and a text version with images. I listened and followed along.
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#3Note: "library" here refers to actual libraries with books, not the programming kind, and "collections" as in "museum collection".
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#4Host Gator? Really? Let me guess, the domain is purchased and controlled through GoDaddy too
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#5I like the Merriweather font on her blog, very easy to read. This is now my fav serif font. The #444444 color helps too. I suppose she's a book historian - she knows what she's doing in that regard. I wish more bloggers knew the value of not making text completely black on white.
On the topic, what more can be said? She's spot on with "don’t confuse popularity with engagement." It's not just special collections that end up as entertaining "wink wink nudge nudge nudge" content currency, but pretty much anything. Social media eats it, processes it, and spits it out as trivialised "what's new" click-bait. On the flip side, maybe that's exactly what social media users want/expect/enjoy. A sort of intellectual breakfast pic, anything more serious doesn't belong.
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#6Google cache mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TDYdhcB...
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#7I bemoan the disaster that is happening with the BBC archive of radio and TV (about 1,000,000 hours of content!) - they didn't manage to place it online completely, thus, it is not shared, commented upon, put in collections, and integrated into this living fabric that is the social media.
In the meantime cat videos, art videos and all sorts oddities flood youtube, FB and reddit, and get the lion share of attention.
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#8Note: "library" here refers to actual libraries with books, not the programming kind, and "collections" as in "museum collection".
And here's the Wikipedia article on "Special collections", for anyone else unfamiliar with the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_collections
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#9I bemoan the disaster that is happening with the BBC archive of radio and TV (about 1,000,000 hours of content!) - they didn't manage to place it online completely, thus, it is not shared, commented upon, put in collections, and integrated into this living fabric that is the social media. In the meantime cat videos, art videos and all sorts oddities flood youtube, FB and reddit, and get the lion share of attention.
That's a little different - isn't the problem there that the copyright for each individual programme is unclear and may not be wholly owned by the BBC? As a result, it is difficult and time consuming to track down the owner of each programme to secure the online archival permissions.
With the book collections in the original article, copyright is very clear. Their books are out of copyright and the collections own the photographs that they took of them. So, they are able to make them freely available if they choose to.
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#10I like the Merriweather font on her blog, very easy to read. This is now my fav serif font. The #444444 color helps too. I suppose she's a book historian - she knows what she's doing in that regard. I wish more bloggers knew the value of not making text completely black on white. On the topic, what more can be said? She's spot on with "don’t confuse popularity with engagement." It's not just special collections that…
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