Why Collecting History Online is Web 1.5
April 13, 2010
Article by Sheila Brennan and Mills Kelly on how collecting history online has not quite lived up to their expectations.
Article by Sheila Brennan and Mills Kelly on how collecting history online has not quite lived up to their expectations.
April 13, 2010 at 1:51 PM
Brennan and Kelly are repeating the digital history proposals for sharing “the archive of the future.” this time the shared place is a Katrina site for the collaborated collection of survivers’ and volunteers’ experiences after the hurricane. The Hurricane digital Memory Bank(HDMB) included the geolocation of the contributors on a Google Map to reflect where they came from and where they ended up. (This I would love to learn)They included oral history with voicemail. It was not as successful as the 9/11 project due to difficult interface for photos with notes attached. The site needed a “low barrier for entry.” To get more stories HDMB asked questions which got them as much spam as actual entries. To gain contributors trust, control of their posts were theirs only. Scraping “Flickr” for images sounds a little unscrupulous to get entries. Not enough time was allowed to accomplish the task but when I checked out the site, I found it very maneuverable and loaded with messages and photos that were very thought provoking.