zwaard, kate: technology and community: why we need partners, collaborators and friends

Dodging the Memory HoleOctober 14, 2016

Technology and CommunityWhy we need partners, collaborators, and friends

National Digital Initiatives

Kate Zwaard

Abbey Potter

Mike Ashenfelder

Jaime Mears

When I speak of and refer to it as ‘the Great Library,’ I do so with sincerity and appreciation for everything that I learned within those walls.

-- Henriette Avram

I am not a librarian by training but a brainwashed computer systems analyst.

–Avram

Maximize the benefit of the digital collection

Incubate, encourage, and promote digital innovation

From Crawl to Call & Pull: Engaging with Communitiesand API driven Accessioning of Digital Folklife (iPres 2016)David Brunton, LC ♦ Trevor Owens, IMLS ♦ Abigail Potter, LC ♦ Nicole Saylor, LC ♦ Kate Zwaard, LC

Thank youKate Zwaard

kzwa@loc.gov

Henriette Avram. Photo by Reid Baker, https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9708/ala.htmlWoman at Main Reading Room card catalog in the Library of Congress. Photo by Jack Delano https://lccn.loc.gov/90712184Library of Congress, Jefferson Buildling, bookstacks area. Photo. https://www.loc.gov/item/91719273/William T. Sherman Papers: Certificate of thanks signed by Abraham Lincoln, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms009309.mss39800.0155Needlework display at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Photo by Jonas Dovydenas. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004.018/Walt Whitman Papers: Photograph of Whitman. Photo by Frank Pearsall, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms005001.mss77909.019How to dance A complete ball-room and party guide. Published by Tousey & Small. https://www.loc.gov/item/musdi.098/Walt Whitman Papers: Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, https://www.loc.gov/item/mss454430216/Nathan W. Daniels Diary: Diary; Vol. I, 1861 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms014083.mss84934.01Rosa Parks being fingerprinted Photo. https://lccn.loc.gov/2015649584Too Busy To Improve. Cartoon by Alan O’Rourke https://www.flickr.com/photos/toddle_email_newsletters/15412982829Great Mustaches of the LOC. https://www.flickr.com/commons/tags/greatmustachesoftheloc/Rosa Parks Papers: Accounts of her arrest, https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85943.001810 Rosa Parks Papers: Recipe for featherlite pancakes, https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss85943.002606/Ekstasis, No. 2. Library of Congress, Music Division. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200154181Lowering the Activation Energy of a Reaction by a Catalyst http://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/principles-of-general-chemistry-v1.0/s18-08-catalysis.htmlOperating a hand drill at the North American Aviation, Inc., Photo by Alfred T. Palmer, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

DPLAfest 2016. Photo by Jason Dixon https://www.flickr.com/photos/dpla/26587463152/

Archives Unleashed Hackathon. Photo by Jaime Mears https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2016/07/co-hosting-a-datathon-at-the-library-of-congress/

Scientific Laboratory. Photo by Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich, https://www.loc.gov/item/prk2000002511/

About North American. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086342/

Hill Now. https://www.hillnow.com/

Printers' marks of William Caxton and Richard Grafton in North Corridor. Thomas Jefferson Building, photo by Carol Highsmith https://www.loc.gov/resource/highsm.02131/

How Champagne is Made. The San Francisco call., October 12, 1902, Image 15

Chapters in the Bible most frequently quoted together. America’s Public Bible. http://americaspublicbible.org/quoted-together.html

Paris, France, ca. 1920. Photo. https://www.loc.gov/item/2001705736/

Image Delivery API . Everything you ever wanted to know about IIIF but were too afraid to ask http://www.slideshare.net/Cogapp/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-iiif-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask

Images from the StoryCorps.me app. https://storycorps.me/

Archives Unleashed 2.0 slides from Project Mojitos http://archivesunleashed.com/final-projects/

How to use Snapchat. Wired. https://www.wired.com/2016/04/how-to-use-snapchat-guide-millennials/

Modernizing the New York Times Archive. http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/the-future-of-the-past-modernizing-the-new-york-times-archive/?_r=1

Charles Babbage’s Calculating Machine. https://www.loc.gov/item/2006691797/

Interesting Clouds over Inks Lake. Photo by Carol Highsmith. https://www.loc.gov/resource/highsm.28097/

Friendship love and truth. Hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives https://www.loc.gov/item/2001699760/

Theodore Roosevelt Island. Photo by Carol Highsmith, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010630948/