Kenn Bicknell
Digital Resources Librarian, Depart of transportation LA library and archive
There was a TON of stuff in his presentation..
Kelaine Note: He would be awesome for an all-staff presentation!!
Prezi: bit.ly/1g0scfn
His department saw a 57% budget cut in 2010.
What he wanted to accomplish with his new endeavors/goals:
Accessibility. Competing for eyeballs and want to be mindful that we can be the experts for something
Embodiment. Becoming trusted source for and protector of resources/archives
Patronage. Keep them coming back for more
3 phases of digitalization
On demand
File size and email restrictions: Externally accessible server. Started flickr collection
Aggregating
the news coverage. daily transportation headlines on daily basis. Email
via reference-cc'd him and he's building knowledge base-mini Wikipedia
Phase 2 scanning whole collections
Adding links to catalog records
Harvesting born digital and grey literature
Initiate document sharing site
Establish self as
Behinds scenes slide
Paper.li. Compartmentalizations your tweets and reposts?
Phase 3
Shelf by shelf inventory
Protocols for OCR, standardized metadata, files structure
Primary resources blog serves as new website
Flickr account getting amazing hits. Nearly 4 million views
Interesting side notes. Fashion and PR exploration
Engage users to enhance metadata about photos they find or are donated
One image a day on tumblr. Exponentially added to flickr traffic
Oac. California digital archives
Groundswell. book by Charlene li
News and information
Blog, twitter, paper.li
Digitalization started with employee newsletters
Anniversary events
Other disseminators picked up their content
Online calendar. This date primary resource calendar that he puts in people's face everyday
Uses Feeddemon - a free RSS feed reader for Windows
Batch emphasis:Quantity over quality
Historypin.com
. Photosharing that accommodates video. Has Chronology data layer too.
Money from google superimposed augmented reality with google
streetview. Passes the 16 year old boy test
Publishing constantly on Facebook but through interaction with other services, not directly?!
Determining mutually beneficial relationships
Create google custom search
Leverage search capability of tool?
Tiki-Toki. Timeline
People plotter spelling?
Got a collaboration gig with the Getty because they found their stuff online
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