Yours Truly transformed thousands of pieces of Vizcaya correspondence into an interactive storytelling experience built around human-centered design. Rather than simply digitizing archival material, the project asked visitors to explore James Deering’s personality and choices through letters, multimedia, QR-triggered interpretation, and a responsive content system. The result connected archival access, visitor experience, infrastructure, and storytelling in a single platform that also created a foundation for future digital interpretation at Vizcaya.
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Social Media brings connections, lessons in ‘User Studies for Digital Library Development’
Lessons from contributing to User Studies for Digital Library Development and why audience research should shape digital collections, services and platforms before technology choices are made.
#DigitalHeritage 1-2-3: APIs, Apps & Social Media Preservation
A compact digital-heritage briefing on APIs, mobile apps and the challenge of preserving social-media content while keeping digital collections accessible.
Philip Graham on partnering research with social media outreach at a national level
Philip Graham of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland describes an unusually coordinated approach to digital heritage: research institutions working across organizational boundaries to connect collections, public engagement, open technologies, and user contributions. The conversation examines Scotland’s Digital Futures work, the Canmore database, cross-institutional partnerships, and the difficult but essential work of building internal support for digital outreach.
Voices TV: Featuring the Library of Congress’ Flickr Strategy
This Voices TV episode examines the Library of Congress’s pioneering use of Flickr to open historic photographic collections to public participation. Interviews with Michelle Springer and Helena Zinkham explore one of the earliest large-scale social-media experiments by a U.S. federal cultural institution and the possibilities created when collections move into spaces where audiences can discover, comment on, share, and contribute knowledge about them.
Audio Podcast: Library of Congress on partnering with Flickr and finding its voice in social media
Welcome to Voices of the Past, The podcast that helps you advocate for cultural heritage through the web, I’m Jeff Guin. Today we have kind of a special show for you. Traditionally we try to promote independent bloggers who are talking about heritage online but…
Meet the Blogger: Lynne Thomas of “Confessions of a Curator”
Rare-books curator Lynne Thomas discusses blogging from inside special collections and the emerging possibilities of “Special Collections 2.0.” Her work connected traditional stewardship with new forms of public access and professional exchange, asking how libraries could use participatory web tools without losing the context and expertise that give collections meaning. The conversation captures a period when curators were actively redefining what access to rare and distinctive materials could mean online.
Best in Heritage: Social Participation; E-mail Saves Tree; Blogging Productivity
A 2010 snapshot of emerging heritage practice: Nina Simon on social participation, digital advocacy saving a historic tree, open archaeology media, National Archives photo sharing, and museum new-media experiments. The individual platforms have aged unevenly, but the larger themes—participation, open access, public advocacy, and digital interpretation—became lasting parts of cultural heritage practice.