collaboration on the lam:   insights into moving image archives collaboration

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Collaboration on the LAM:  Insights into Moving Image Archives Collaboration

Ricky Erway Senior Program OfficerOCLC Research

Future Directions Panel AMIA Annual ConferenceSavannah, GA Nov 13, 2008

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Collaboration – it’s only natural

Collaboration…• Benefits all parties• Provides a compelling compromise• Acknowledges limitations, builds on strengths

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Finding Commonalities

• Cross-community appeal• An outcome addressing a common set of

needs• Common denominator

• A requirement common to all the participants• Currently out-of-reach

• A function is not effectively or economically fulfilled by acting alone

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Possibilities for Moving Image Archives Collaborators

• Work with another MIA that’s done what you need to do.

• Unite with a local museum, library, or archives to save costs

• Partner with an institution with similar subject content

• Work better within your parent organization• Take advantage of professional connections• Join forces with a commercial entity• Join up with an institution that would like to

use your content

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Don’t stop there….social taggingrights user interface

vocabulary-buildingnew audiencesfundraising

shared-expertise content

exposure conservationemerging technologies

advocacy

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The Collaboration Quadrant

Low investment

Low reward

High investmentLow reward

High investmen

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reward

Low investment

High reward

Results are long term, transformative, liberating

Reward

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Generosity of trust, time, resources,

compromise

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Catalysts – We need all the help we can get

• Vision• Mandate• Incentives• Change Agents• Mooring• Resources• Flexibility• External Catalysts• Trust

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Finale

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Resources

• Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration Among Libraries, Archives and Museums http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2008-05.pdf

• Blog http://hangingtogether.org/

• Ricky Erway erwayr@oclc.org