Slides from a presentation at the 2009 American Association for History and Computing (AAHC) an affiliate at the American Historical Association (AHA) meeting by Jean Root Green, Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Mark Matienzo, and Amy Schindler.

1. Old Stuff, New Tricks:
How Archivists Are Making Special
Collections Even More Special Using Web
2.0 Technologies
Jessica Lacher-Feldman, The University of Alabama
Mark A. Matienzo, The New York Public Library
Jean L. Root Green, Binghamton University
Amy C. Schindler, College of William and Mary
AAHC/AHA 2009

2. Web 2.0 Defined
The network as platform, spanning all
connected devices.
--Tim O'Reilly, 2004
(founder of O'Reilly Media)

3. Web 2.0 Defined
...describes the changing trends in the
use of World Wide Web technology
and web design that
aim to enhance creativity,
communication, secure and
powerful information sharing,
collaboration and functionality
of the web...

4. Web 2.0 Defined
"Web 2.0 applications are those that make the
most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform:
delivering software as a continually-updated
service that gets better the more people use it,
consuming and remixing data from multiple
sources, including individual users, while providing
their own data and services in a form that allows
remixing by others, creating network effects
through an "architecture of participation," and
going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to
deliver rich user experiences."

7. 2.0 and Archives and Special Collections
Connecting
People
to
Stuff

8. Blogs

9. Blogs
"A blog (a contraction of the term
"Web log") is a Web site, usually
maintained by an individual with
regular entries of commentary,
descriptions of events, or other
material such as graphics or
video. Entries are commonly
displayed in reverse-chronological
order. "Blog" can also be used as
a verb, meaning to maintain or
add content to a blog."
Blog Defined

10. Cool @ Hoole: http://coolathoole.blogspot.com/

11. Cool @ Hoole: http://coolathoole.blogspot.com/

12. 2.0x2: Building on the Blog with other people's
YouTube Contributions

13. Synergy and Cross-Promotion

14. Special Collections Blog:
http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/mt/specialcoll/

15. Inside the BU SC blog

16. BU Libraries' International Studies blog

17. Promoting Special Collections on other blogs

18. Blogging@NYPL: http://nypl.org/blog

19. NYPL Labs: http://labs.nypl.org/

20. ArchivesBlogs: http://archivesblogs.com/

21. http://womenatwilliamandmary.blogspot.com/

23. http://womenatwilliamandmary.blogspot.com/

24. Photo & Video Sharing

25. Photo Sharing Defined
Photo sharing is the publishing or
transfer of a user's digital photos
online, thus enabling the user to share
them with others (whether publicly or
privately). This functionality is provided
through both websites and applications
that facilitate the upload and display of
images. The term can also be loosely
applied to the use of online photo
galleries that are setup and managed
by individual users, including
photoblogs.

26. Flickr Commons

27. Flickr @ Hoole = As a quick and dirty instruction tool

28. Flickr @ Hoole = as a quick and dirty online exhibit

29. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scrc

30. Flickr @ WM = to share material
with special interest groups

31. Flickr @ WM to keep in touch with grad students

32. Always cross promoting

33. http://www.youtube.com/SwemSCRC

34. Tour the Binghamton University Libraries
http://www.flickr.com/photos/binglib/collections/
72157604275706095

36. NYPL on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/nypl/

37. NYPL on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NewYorkPublicLibrary

38. NYPL on iTunes U

39. Kaltura: http://kaltura.com/

40. NYPL on Kaltura
Technical Info: http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/dalton

41. Social Networking Sites

42. Social Networking Sites
A social network service focuses
on building online communities of
people who share interests and/or
activities, or who are interested in
exploring the interests and
activities of others. Most social
network services are web based
and provide a variety of ways for
users to interact, such as e-mail
and instant messaging services.
Social Networking Defined

43. Creating Fans and Friends Facebook
Hoole Library

44. Promoting Events via Facebook
Hoole Library

45. Promoting (Digital) Projects via Facebook

46. Swem Library on Facebook

47. BU Special Collections on Facebook

48. NYPL on Facebook

49. NYPL on Facebook

50. NYPL on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NYPLMilstein

51. Archivists Without A Cause on Facebook

52. Wikis
The term wiki is a shortened
form of wiki wiki, which is
from Hawaiian, and is
commonly used as an
adjective to describe
something quick or fast.

53. Wiki Defined
A wiki is a page or collection of Web
pages designed to enable anyone
who accesses it to contribute or modify
content, using a simplified markup
language. Wikis are often used to
create collaborative websites and to
power community websites. The
collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia
is one of the best-known wikis. Wikis
are used in business to provide
intranet and Knowledge Management
systems.

54. http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/

55. Classes in the SCRC Wiki

56. SCRC Wiki for FAQs

57. Questions answered added to SCRC Wiki

58. More Cross Promotion

59. BU Library internal wiki

60. Inside the BU Libraries' wiki

61. NYPL Digital Experience Group wiki

62. NYPL Internal Wiki

63. AHA's Archives Wiki

64. Virtual Collaboration and Building Digital Collections

65. Virtual Collaboration and Building Digital Collections

66. Digital Collections

67. CONTENTdm at Binghamton University
The Link Digital Archives

68. The Edwin A. Link, Jr. Archives

69. Edwin A. Link, Jr. speaks

70. ContentPro at Binghamton University Libraries

71. ContentPro in Encore

72. Binghamton Banks in ContentPro

73. Content DM at UA Libraries

74. Content DM at UA Libraries

75. NYPL Digital Collections: http://nypl.org/digital/

76. NYPL Digital Gallery: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

77. NYPL Online Exhibitions: Yaddo
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/exhibits/yaddo/

78. NYPL Online Exhibitions: Treasures
(Coming Soon)

79. Thoughts, Comments, Conclusions....
footnote: all the work for this
presentation was done via google
docs, google chat and via email

80. Thank you!