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Strategic Planning For Sustaining User-Generated Content In Digital Collections, Cory K. Lampert, Su Kim Chung
Strategic Planning For Sustaining User-Generated Content In Digital Collections, Cory K. Lampert, Su Kim Chung
Library Faculty Presentations
• Should there be an overarching philosophy for user-generated content in the organization?
• Who in the management or leadership determines this philosophy or guides the organization to come up with a shared vision?
•What technical considerations are there for these projects? Are there staff that need to be consulted for software choices and technical customization?
•Is there are point person for the project and does this person have the authority and appropriate expertise to moderate content and respond to user’s contributions?
•Should there be appropriate guidelines for communicating an institutions’ brand or message in these new venues?
•And ultimately, …
Oral History On The Web, Tom D. Sommer
Oral History On The Web, Tom D. Sommer
Library Faculty Presentations
This session will examine how oral history is increasing its relevance in a changing digital landscape. This session will not only showcase a few oral history collections currently online, but how oral historians can place them there. Further, this session will explain the basic steps to uploading your interviews (audio, video and transcriptions) to the Web with some practical tools. This session will also showcase a new method of access for oral history researchers. This new method is the digital collection. For example, the University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has created the digital collection entitled, “Nevada …