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Creating “Communities of Interest” with Library, Archive, and Museum Collections Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Libraries Effie Kapsalis, Smithsonian Archives Darren Milligan, Smithsonian Center for Education & Museum Studies Museum Computer Network 2010

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Page 1: Creating Communities of Interest Around Museum Collections Intro

Creating “Communities of Interest”

with Library, Archive, and Museum

Collections

Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian LibrariesEffie Kapsalis, Smithsonian ArchivesDarren Milligan, Smithsonian Center for Education & Museum Studies

Museum Computer Network 2010

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The Competition

Neil Young Archive

• 2.9 million emails/second• 50 million tweets/day• 700 billion Facebook minutes/month •13 hours/minute video added to YouTube• 2.5 billion photos/month added to Flickr

Heartbeat getting recorded at Christian Boltanski's exhibition, by C-Monster

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We have our unique qualities

• Quantity• Authenticity• Curation/Archiving/Cataloging

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Agenda

• Brief case studies from the Smithsonian

• Small group workshop