These are from first hour session only:
Historical/narrative mapping
Google Map APIs
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html
Crowd Mapping
Example: http://familyfriendlywindsor.crowdmap.com/
Open Source
These are from first hour session only:
Historical/narrative mapping
Google Map APIs
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html
Crowd Mapping
Example: http://familyfriendlywindsor.crowdmap.com/
Open Source
“Instead of collecting from the vast information world for our patron base, we will collect unique materials from our patron base to preserve and present to the world” – Dorothea Salo.
I’m in the small (but mighty) camp of librarians who hold that the future of librarianship is dependent on turning our collections work inside out. While we deal with this profound re-understanding of our collecting and preservation work, libraries must also, as Dave Lankes has recently put it, facilitate knowledge creation in our communities. In other words, we need to re-consider and re-imagine how the library can act as a platform for research, scholarship, teaching, and conversation.
At my place of work, we have an open source library catalogue (Evergreen), an open source learning management system (Sakai), and an open source course reserves system (Syrup). We are in the process of rebuilding the library website in Drupal 7 and developing our own discovery layer called jamun. Creating and strengthening the bibliographic connective tissue between these systems so works can be readily found, read, used and re-used is what is consuming me at the moment (…that, and games and maps).