From Audience to Avatar? Transforming the cultural experience towards 2012 Dr Liz Lyon Director, UKOLN MLA Digital Futures Strategy Workshop, September 2007 UKOLN is supported by: This.
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From Audience to Avatar? Transforming the cultural experience towards 2012 Dr Liz Lyon Director, UKOLN MLA Digital Futures Strategy Workshop, September 2007 UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 www.ukoln.ac.uk A centre of expertise in digital information management Working assumptions, position statements 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Digital Strategy goes beyond “digitisation” Cultural assets scope is learning and scholarly research The Web is “sector-agnostic” User-driven Culture2.0 is here now The Google Generation are tomorrow’s “curators” “Always beta” & agile development cycles impact service delivery Visitors move in, between and through, physical and virtual worlds We can learn from business and media….. 19th May 2006 …in cultural spaces??? 6th September 2007 Microsoft Research SenseCam : Digital memories, digital lives lifelogging Today’s events = tomorrow’s memories for mlas Assisting recall? Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research, MyLifeBits Project Flickr & YouTube : community memory? JISC CREW project : recording events & human discourse Sustainable preservation models? UK, regional, local authority, institutional, commercial data warehouse? Liberating collections Institutional: legacy digital surrogates, born digital media, massive digitisation projects, OA Personal archives 2012 Reference data: sensor-nets, environmental, geospatial, demographic, genomic Community content An understanding of “trust”? Repository audit & certification Use toolkits like DRAMBORA? Enriching the cultural record: digital curation • Tagging, annotation & (micro) comments • Reviews, ratings, authority & recommendations • Identifiers, links, usage, PIs & targets • Mash-ups, mixes & cut ‘n paste culture • Mining Understanding Web behaviours Community curatorial role? Leveraging cross-sectoral partnerships > 200 blogs Transforming the experience: cultural second lives • Second Life >50,000 concurrent users Sep 07, data visualisation, 3D objects & structures • Build simulations and/or mimic Real Life • Link objects & travel in-world & between worlds • Visitor avatars : new experiences Avon Gallery “Audience” metaphor is too passive SL challenges citizen concepts of “identity” “What if?” learning Collaborations with education & media? University of Sheffield Centre for Information Literacy SL office Strategic approaches & policy UKOLN Liz Lyon June 2007 35 Recs for JISC Roles, Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships: scientist, institution, data centre, user, funder, publisher 2012 Cultural Olympiad RIN April 2007 5 Principles: Roles & responsibilities, standards & QA, access, usage & credit, benefits & cost-effectiveness, preservation & sustainability Digital divide raises social policy issues But…. Unique opportunity to engage millennials…. Questions? Slides will be available on Slideshare and at : http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/presentations.html www.ukoln.ac.uk A centre of expertise in digital information management