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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
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
We have our unique qualities
• Quantity• Authenticity• Curation/Archiving/Cataloging
Agenda
• Brief case studies from the Smithsonian
• Small group workshop
Martin [email protected], twitter: UDCMRK
Effie [email protected], twitter: digitaleffie
Darren [email protected]