ER&L+ProQuest #ideadrop house

Join us for the kick-off of SXSWi and the #ideadrop house!  ER&L and ProQuest hosts will provide an overview of the activities planned at the house – making sure your experience is the best.  Rachel Frick from the Digital Library Federation will also provide tips and insight during her presentation (or lightning talk) “Being Interactive @ Interactive.”  Whether you you’ve been to SXSWi or this is your first year, you won’t want to miss this kick-off gathering.

Make ER&L + ProQuest #ideadrop house one of your first stops to connect with #sxswLAM and others at Interactive. See you there! 

In this house, catch a summary of the #sxswLAM happenings for SXSWi. 

Make ER&L + ProQuest #ideadrop house one of your first stops to connect with #sxswLAM and others at Interactive... and make it on the video stream. See you there! 

Chat with Abhi Nemani, Chief of Staff @ Code for America visits us at the house and on the stream to discuss his SXSW talk: Hacking Cities for a Better, Sustainable Tomorrow

David Lee King joins us to discuss "How to be Human Online"

A baby born in the US today will live an algorithmed life. Her education, healthcare, career, who she dates, the ads she sees, what she reads, eats, buys, will be shaped by a feedback loop of data collected, processed, fed back to her, collected, processed, fed back to her.

We call this the new nature and the new nurture.

In the new nature, we know more about ourselves through data sources that we will have at our disposal. Information streams of personal and genetic data are increasingly available, but this raises psychological and emotional implications on self-awareness.

In the new nurture, retailers, corporations and government bodies use data mining to parse, segment, and sell to human beings. This marks a new moment for humanity: the algorithmed life.

The new nature and nurture create opportunity and peril. The increasing availability of data changes how we are able to know and define ourselves—at the risk of being defined by algorithms that we can’t control.

Join us for an informal gathering to talk about why you're here, what you hope to learn, who you hope to meet... This is open and super informal with drinks and snacks courtesy of the ER&L + Proquest #ideadrop House. 

Join us for the everylibrary brunch to learn about what you can do to support libraries at the ballot box. 

Why everylibrary? EveryLibrary builds financial and tactical support to ensure that local library initiatives pass at the ballot box and much more...

http://everylibrary.org/

Drop in to #ideadrop. Grab some nourishment before heading to sessions... and drop those #sxswLAM ideas and inspirations for the day. Hang around and you'll meet some cool people, too. 

Got something to share? Want to gather a group at the house? Want to preview or rehash your SX success story or awesome project??? Request a 30 minute time slot with the ER&L crew at erl.sponsor@gmail.com. ER&L + ProQuest #ideadrop house is happy to make the space happen for you... and DLF/CLIR is supporting leave streaming of (your) events at the house, too!

See you there! 

Questions? erl.sponsor@gmail.com

Your ISP is spying on your network traffic, Zuck pwn'd your social graph. Even darling Twitter has thrown indie developers under the bus for the sake of "consistency." You probably know all this, and you still go on using these networks because there are no workable alternatives. Except there are alternatives, and we're actively building them out! This panel will demonstrate running code and working prototypes, but it will also make a case for networks as a central component of human freedom. Come help us frame the problem, consider existing solutions, and spec out more responsible networks that you and your friends will actually use.

Paul Vinelli comes to #ideadrop on Audio Communities before his SX talk Poetry in Motion: Sound Culture & Data Mining: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_IAP1379

Communities like Anonymous and 4chan's /b/ create Internet culture, change politics and make news. But how do they build trust, share work and intervene in the world? How can new groups and movements use anonymity and pseudonymity? While Facebook and Google push for an Internet of real names and persistent identities, we will present an alternate universe of thriving, chaotic, bizarre and effective cultures created by nobody in particular - and their implications for activism, politics and creativity online.

Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University, is the go-to authority on Anonymous for TEDGlobal, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Fast Company and NPR. Quinn Norton is Wired's Anonymous correspondent, and has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Maximum PC. Moderating is Finn Brunton, Assistant Professor of Information at the University of Michigan's School of Information and author of Spam: A Flood, A Theory, A History.

Panelists from Culture Hack: Libraries & Museums Open for Making #ideadrop with us.

Andy, Anne and Donald #ideadrop their SX talk Big Heritage, Big Quilts & Big Canvases

Butch Lazorchak #ideadrops his SX talks Citizen Archivists and Use of Open Source Tools for Cultural Heritage --> http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_IAP1149 & Citizen Archivists and Cultural Memory --> http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_MP4948

Human activity – good and bad, legal and criminal, ethical and unethical – has become increasingly bound up in data-driven systems. For organizations of all kinds – government, non-profit, businesses – discovering bad behavior when it first occurs, and stopping it in its tracks, is becoming vital to global reputations. In this panel, we’ll look at the practical use of data extraction, ontologies, and the semantic web to detect patterns of misconduct early. We’ll see live examples of how historical and transactional data can be scanned in its native format and language to uncover patterns that provide true predictive analytics and artificial intelligence.

Fair use is a complex area of copyright law. Publishers have a love/hate relationship with fair use because on one hand, it lets them legally repurpose existing copyrighted material. On the other hand, publishers want to prevent others from stealing their content and republishing it illegally. People exercise caution when using work created by someone else, which is good because they are aware of the content creator's rights. However, an underlying principle of fair use is to promote and build upon the existing work of others to further develop innovative ideas. Publishers and those in the legal community vary widely in their opinions of fair use and these perspectives should be explored in a thoughtful and productive way through this session.

Henry and Sam #ideadrop Spreadable Media: Value, Meaning & Network Culture

Join us for the everylibrary brunch to learn about what you can do to support libraries at the ballot box. 

Why everylibrary? EveryLibrary builds financial and tactical support to ensure that local library initiatives pass at the ballot box and much more...

http://everylibrary.org/

Poetry, stories, and speeches aren’t just what we read or what we hear - they're how we make meaning and celebrate history. Hundreds of thousands of spoken text audio files - including poetry readings, American Indian stories, and presidential speeches - remain untapped in archives throughout the world. These digital artifacts hold our oral traditions, and projects like High Performance Sound Technologies for Analysis and Scholarship (HiPSTAS) out of the University of Texas’s School of Information feature original high performance data mining tools that help us visualize sound culture in ways we never imagined. How will these new audio technologies reshape the way we understand our words and ourselves?

Drop in to #ideadrop. Grab some nourishment before heading to sessions... and drop those #sxswLAM ideas and inspirations for the day. Hang around and you'll meet some cool people, too. 

Got something to share? Want to gather a group at the house? Want to preview or rehash your SX success story or awesome project??? Request a 30 minute time slot with the ER&L crew at erl.sponsor@gmail.com. ER&L + ProQuest #ideadrop house is happy to make the space happen for you... and DLF/CLIR is supporting leave streaming of (your) events at the house, too!

See you there! 

Questions? erl.sponsor@gmail.com

The presenters of Creativity & Mayhem: Anonymous Communities at Work join us to #ideadrop the SX session.

Communities like Anonymous and 4chan's /b/ create Internet culture, change politics and make news. But how do they build trust, share work and intervene in the world? How can new groups and movements use anonymity and pseudonymity? While Facebook and Google push for an Internet of real names and persistent identities, we will present an alternate universe of thriving, chaotic, bizarre and effective cultures created by nobody in particular - and their implications for activism, politics and creativity online.

Information Literacy is the ability identify an information need and to locate and evaluate appropriate resources to satisfy this need. As more and more information and communication has moved online information literacy has become closely tied to computer literacy. Individuals who find themselves on the bottom of the digital divide often lack skills necessary to compete and thrive in today's society. These individual may lack the ability to find work, stay informed of laws and rights, obtain social and financial services, and are at an increased risk for online scams and identity theft. The level and quality of general public discourse is also affected by information literacy rates. This presentation will take a look at how age and economics are tied to information literacy, provide insights gleaned through library reference work in public, academic, and legal libraries, and discuss on how design can promote information literacy and computer literacy.

Presenter, Dan Phiffer of occupy.here will #ideadrop his SX talk.

Stop asking the question: “What are the chances my crowdfunding campaign will be successful?” You are not at the Kentucky Derby or Las Vegas. Crowdfunding is not a lottery — it’s a platform for anyone, anywhere, to raise money for any idea — and successful campaigns are more often than not the result of careful planning and deliberate action.

Over five years and hundreds of thousands of campaigns have left CEO Slava Rubin and the rest of his Indiegogo team with mountains of real data from which to draw real conclusions and advice — what works and what doesn’t for crowdfunding. For example: Campaigns with videos, raise 114% more money. 93% of campaigns that reach their target goal offer perks. That’s the tip of the iceberg. 
Whether you’re a bootstrapped startup, a filmmaker, a musician, philanthropist, or a recent amputee, Slava will provide you with the tools to get your crowdfunding campaign over its goal line.

Black Twitter Activism, Bigger Than Hip Hop

Presenters from New Knowledge Ecosystems: How & What Do We Know? come to #ideadrop with us.

This panel will discuss copyright in the wake of SOPA/PIPA: how law gets made, how it impacts innovation, and how it interacts with civil liberties, particularly free speech & privacy. It consists of Andrew Bridges, Margot Kaminski, Wendy Seltzer, & a surprise industry guest.

Bridges has successfully argued numerous copyright cases on the behalf of innovative technologies. Recently, he represented Dajaz1, the music site seized by DHS for over a year that galvanized SOPA/PIPA opposition.

Kaminski is Executive Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She identified substantive civil liberty problems with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which was rejected by the European Parliament after widespread protest by European citizens.

Seltzer founded and developed the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, which studies legal threats to online speech and activity. She is on the board of Tor, and served on the ICANN board.

Libraries have grown far beyond the nostalgic scent of books on shelves (though we still have that too). There is an explosive realm of content-wrangling that occurs on the library frontier making life-changing impacts in literacy, health, and education. There is also exists a quagmire of metadata messes, licensing loops, and lack-luster technology that is overdue for an innovative shakeup.

This is a unique setting to bring to the table the wide cast of SXSW tech & entrepreneurial attendees with some of the most grassroots, forward-thinking librarians & information professionals thinking outside-the-box today. Together we can build castles in the sandbox to connect new ideas with immediate impacts. Let's get this collaborative conversation started!

Digital maps dot the landscape of the Internet and our mobile devices. And for the most part, these maps live in a perpetual NOW. But one thing often overlooked in the rush for geo-currency is the amazing ability of maps and their associated location information to tell compelling stories about our shared history.

The panelists, operating in the design, marketing, cultural heritage and not-for-profit sectors, are expert in bringing historic digital geospatial data to bear to create useful contemporary tools and services.

The panelists will share their insight on building contemporary, cutting-edge tools and projects that leverage open source technologies such as Omeka, GeoServer, OpenLayers and many others, while bringing attention to the importance of preserving our digital geographic cultural heritage for the long-term benefit of commerce, entertainment and history.

Carson and Andrea just presented... Let's break it down on the stream.

Libraries have grown far beyond the nostalgic scent of books on shelves (though we still have that too). There is an explosive realm of content-wrangling that occurs on the library frontier making life-changing impacts in literacy, health, and education. There is also exists a quagmire of metadata messes, licensing loops, and lack-luster technology that is overdue for an innovative shakeup.

This is a unique setting to bring to the table the wide cast of SXSW tech & entrepreneurial attendees with some of the most grassroots, forward-thinking librarians & information professionals thinking outside-the-box today. Together we can build castles in the sandbox to connect new ideas with immediate impacts. Let's get this collaborative conversation started!

The term “literacy” usually refers to the ability to read and write functionally. The emphasis is on interaction with the written word - taken for granted as the cornerstone of education. But momentum may be building in the direction of a more visual and auditory literacy. With greater numbers gaining access to more diverse formats and sharing them across social networks, there’s an ever-increasing amount of “live” documentation of personal experiences. If this form of storytelling is experienced in a way fundamentally different from strictly textual reading, it may also require a different understanding of literacy. 
In this session, Razorfish Healthware's Erin Abler explores the concept of "interaction literacy," a potential framework for clarifying the elements of multi-mediated, participatory forms of experience. Presenting a model for further development, she explores how insights into the elements of human experience can be used to create new design processes.

RSVP Required - Organizing digital content not only makes it easier to find and use — it creates new opportunities. Our thriving media environment would not be feasible without standardized formats such as MP3, CD Audio, WAV, and JPEG. But the data that describes media is not standardized at all. To foster collaboration and reuse, metadata needs to be consistent and sharable. 
So, let’s archive. In this workshop we invite media creators to join us as we take archives from the shelf (or hard drive) to the web. We encourage workshoppers to consider archiving not only produced work, but also raw footage and ancillary media to make the most of their collections. We’ll teach you how to install free software for archives, create or import records, organize collections, and seamlessly upload files to services like the Internet Archive and SoundCloud. We’ll also teach you how to use the simple web-based Pop Up Archive system to find hidden gems and archive without your own server.

Prerequisites: 
Particular experience and/or knowledge is not required, but this workshop will be of the most use to those who a) create audio/visual content in the course of their work or b) seek better access to archival material for their work — whether in public media or the library/archive/museum ecosystem(s).

What to Bring: 
Bring your archival material: we suggest that each participant come armed with at least a USB key or two (or a terabyte's worth, if you're feeling ambitious) of files. If you have any descriptive information about the files, bring that too — whether a spreadsheet tracking fields like "date" and "location" or even just a list of interviews jotted down in a notebook. Sorry, we can't help digitize analog content this year, though we can certainly point you toward relevant resources.

To RSVP your seat for this workshop, please click on "Sign in to RSVP" in the upper right location of this page. You'll need to sign in using your SXsocial login information.

Drop in to #ideadrop. Grab some nourishment before heading to sessions... and drop those #sxswLAM ideas and inspirations for the day. Hang around and you'll meet some cool people, too. 

Got something to share? Want to gather a group at the house? Want to preview or rehash your SX success story or awesome project??? Request a 30 minute time slot with the ER&L crew at erl.sponsor@gmail.com. ER&L + ProQuest #ideadrop house is happy to make the space happen for you... and DLF/CLIR is supporting leave streaming of (your) events at the house, too!

See you there! 

Questions? erl.sponsor@gmail.com

Use of Social Media in Libraries, Museums and Archives
–What does a social library look like?
–What expectations do we hold for our libraries to weave into the fabric of a community’s life? the field of academia? the general public?

Around the world, libraries, archives and museums are opening their doors to hackers, makers, enthusiasts and creatives of all kinds. By publishing Open Data, cultural heritage institutions are finding new ways to open access to their collections for remix and reuse, and promote new uses and interpretations of the works they hold. These international panelists will explore the many ways in which cultural heritage institutions are sharing content, what people are doing with this content, as well as exploring some of the thornier issues of open access across borders and institutions.

3D experiences are pushing their way into the classroom as media-savvy students move from textbooks to digital experiences and the technologies they’ve grown up with. As the ultimate time machine, 3D environments can literally transport students to any point in time to make history come to life. Using Egyptology classes at Harvard University as an example, this presentation will explore how 3D experiences transform the way we learn, and how 3D technology is applied to cultural awareness, virtual archaeology and museum-going. In Harvard’s Visualization Lab, students experience a virtual reconstruction of the Giza Plateau and its ancient necropolis that was painstakingly and realistically created using archaeological data unearthed over the past century. Attendees will see how this innovative approach was initially developed, is now being crowdsourced globally, and welcomed by students as a unique way to better understand ancient Egypt and become actively engaged in the classroom.

Systems of knowledge such as libraries, universities, publishers, and newspapers are centuries old. And the affordances of a print world have embedded specific practices within these systems. But digital technologies have radically changed everything by offering new ways of communicating information, from the paparazzi to research scientists, and everyone in between. This deeper, more structural change is reshaping knowledge institutions and making them more porous, chaotic, energetic, and motile.

How can we retool the pillars of our existing knowledge systems to embrace technological change? How do we think about new institutions of knowledge like Wikipedia? Citizen journalism? Online learning like EdX and Coursera? Self-publishing in repositories like SSRN and arXiv or via Amazon? The knowledge ecosystem is changing although knowledge has always been social. How can we reconcile this with our previous understanding of experts? Who do we listen to?

Margot Kaminski, Executive Director of Information Society Project at Yale Law School #ideadops her SX talk, "Copyright & Disruptive Technologies"

In the late 1980s, Public Enemy rapper and Internet aficionado Chuck D famously remarked that hip hop was like the “black CNN,” speaking on the “lower frequencies” cited in Ralph Ellison’s "Invisible Man" about issues in African-American communities like the War on Drugs, sex and relationships, poverty and police brutality. As social media has become the default medium for gathering and disseminating information, Twitter posts provide the steady bass beat that continues to inform on similar topics, but with more portability and immediacy than ever before. This panel will examine how so-called “Black Twitter” exchanges news (like the Trayvon Martin case as a recent example) and uses it to mobilize political dialogue and direct action, and how information professionals--like librarians, journalists, and educators--can guide users toward responsible practices that respect the unique coding and cultural perspectives of black and other minority communities.

Let's deconstruct & design actionable ideas about why Libraries, Archives, and Museums within the SXSW conversation is important -- beyond rubbing shoulders with meme-enablers and tool creators. You'll leave with new partners to work on realistic goals that will keep us all engaged beyond the final hours of SXSW bandcamp. Members of the library community at large are encouraged to attend. So be like Dian Fossey and find out who are the librarians in the/your mi(d)st."

Judith Siegel, UX Designer, CNN Digital coming to #ideadrop to talk about the UX process and what libraries can learn when designing for users.

The Sketchbook Project is a constantly evolving library of handmade artists’ books, contributed by more than 22,000 people from 130+ countries. The Project encourages creative people from diverse backgrounds — working artists, full-time parents, busy professionals, students — to share their process with each other and the public. Participants sign up online to receive a blank book, fill it with work, and mail it back. The results are cataloged and archived in our storefront library, exhibited on tour in cities around the world and shared online. The Project operates at several points of intersection — online and offline; digital and physical; global and local; small business and arts organization. With one foot in the Web and another on the road, our passion is to inspire a wide-ranging online community to produce meaningful, tactile experiences in the physical world. This is the story of how a DIY approach to business, technology and creative work made a global project possible.

Drop in to #ideadrop. Grab some nourishment before heading to sessions... and drop those #sxswLAM ideas and inspirations for the day. Hang around and you'll meet some cool people, too. 

Got something to share? Want to gather a group at the house? Want to preview or rehash your SX success story or awesome project??? Request a 30 minute time slot with the ER&L crew at erl.sponsor@gmail.com. ER&L + Proquest #ideadrop house is happy to make the space happen for you... and DLF/CLIR is supporting leave streaming of (your) events at the house, too!

See you there! 

Questions? erl.sponsor@gmail.com

In conversation with Leslie Wolke, Jake Barton, founder and principal of Local Projects will walk through the case study of "Change by Us," an open source application with its first project up and running for New York City. In an attempt to translate large-scale government initiatives into concrete and desired improvements for the city's residents, this website solicits ideas -- as seemingly far-fetched as a turtle pond in the Lower East Side of Manhattan (which as been funded, by the way) -- and connects the ideas and their proposers with relevant city agencies to make them happen. This case study will kick off a far-reaching conversation about how the web is best used to instill and sustain community activism and involvement.