Defining Digital Public Spaces
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Defining Digital Public Spaces
Pam Ryan & Alex Carruthers
10/16/2014
Netspeed
October 16, 2014
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Outline
• What is a digital public space?
• How’d we get here and where are we
going
• EPL Local Music Project with examples
from other sites
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The Challenge
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Digital Public Spaces Intern
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• Engage in research and community consultation
to define Digital Public Spaces
• Determine potential roles for EPL
• Investigate, recommend, and help plan EPL’s
next steps in developing digital projects that
meet community-defined needs
• Investigate the role of EPL in supporting Open
Data initiatives
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Business Plan Goals
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Business Plan Goals
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Digital Public Spaces
Trendspotting Report
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Goals of the Report:
• To meaningfully define the term “digital public space”
for EPL
• To identify trends in the development or improvement
of digital public spaces in libraries or other cultural
institutions
• To investigate specific digital public space projects in
more detail, learning about their successes,
challenges and technical and administrative
infrastructure
• To recommend service directions for EPL
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Research Methods
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76%
10%
14%
Library Websites Reviewed (n=81)
Urban American Libraries
Non-urban American Libraries
Canadian Libraries
23Interviews with
librarians
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Libraries
Programs and
services discussed
26Additional
projects profiled
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Who’s talking about digital public spaces?
• BBC Archives with their new digital platform, The Space
• The Creative Exchange, public/private research institute for civic innovation
• FutureEverything publications
“A digital public space is a wholly collaborative web through which anyone, anywhere, anytime can
access, explore and create with digital content.”
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Trends
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Crowdsourcing
NYPL Labs What’s On the Menu?
• ~ 1,304,533 dishes transcribed from
17,389 menus since 2012
• Menus arereviewed
and mapped
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CrowdsourcingSeattle Band Map
Maps the
relationships
between over
2000 bands
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Livestreaming Video
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Online Book Discussions
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Local History Apps & Civic Hacking
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Civic Hacking and Open Data
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The Helsinki Metropolitan Library System
Most Wanted Books
Ari Hamara
Data visualization
installation at the Seattle
Public Library George
Legrady
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EPL’s Digital Public Space
Demonstration Project
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Local Music Project
• Crowdsourcing project
• Appeals to an identifiable but non-exclusive community
• Other libraries are experimenting with similar ideas
• Other Edmonton groups and institutions have expressed interest in projects on the same theme
• How will we find out what the community is interested in?
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• Unconference
• Planned with Populus Community Planning
• March 22, 2014
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What is an unconference?
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SOMETHING
NEW!
SOMETHING
NEW!
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Why did we choose to host one?
EVOLVE OUR DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT
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OBJECTIVE 1:
EPL HAS DEFINED AND CREATED A DIGITAL
PUBLIC SPACE IN COLLABORATION WITH
COMMUNITY AND PARTNERS. DIGITAL
ONLINE SPACES ARE INTENDED TO
PROVIDE A VENUE FOR SHARING THE BEST
THAT EDMONTON HAS TO OFFER.
• Host a major event to engage Edmontonians in
developing digital public spaces and to inspire
demonstration projects
(2014)
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How did we plan one?
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The day itself:
World Cafe
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The day itself:
Open Space Technology
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What information were we able to draw from YEG BandCamp?
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Celebrity
playlists – what
does Don Iveson
listen to?
Encourage
feedback,
but avoid
just being a
forum
Multigenerational
collaboration
Lots of tags – bands can tag
and users can too
Representation
of diversity
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Contemporary Local Music Collection
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• Edmonton music from the last
5 years
• Selected by small committee
of interested local music fans
• 100 new contributions a year
• Music available for download
and streaming
• Create playlists to stream,
save and share
• Direct traffic to options to
purchase content
• yaharamusic.org
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Local Music History Archive• Crowdsourced
audio, video, images and stories related to local music history
• For streaming and download when relevant
• Audio content included in playlist tool
• History preserved and made accessible
• gdao.org
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Transcription Tool• Digitized local
concert posters
• Posters contain info on who performed where, when and with who can – they show us local music history through time and space
• Posters offered to us from Union Events, Steve Derpak, Parker Thiessen, ‘Fat Dave’ Johnston and Beverley Jackson
• menus.nypl.org
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Database
• Metadata from all three tools in one spot
• Accessible via API for the public to create visualizations, tools and games
• dp.la/apps
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What We’re Working On Now
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Questions
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