A joint presentation by Ernesto Priani and Ernesto Priego for the International Conference on Latin American Cybercultural Studies, oresight Centre, University ofLiverpool, UK 19 May 2011, 3PM http://latamcyber.wordpress.com/ Images on the first and last slide are excerpts from The Infinite Library, an ongoing project by Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda. http://www.theinfinitelibrary.com/ This presentation by Ernesto Priego and Ernesto Priani is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

1. International Conference of Latin American Cybercultural StudiesLiverpool, May 19-20 2011 #latamcyberMapping the Total Library:Surveying WDL & BDMXDr Ernesto PriegoDr Ernesto Priani

3. "The unfiying theme is that information is organized on computers and available over a network, with procedures to select the material in the collections, to organize it, to make it available to users, and to archive it." --William Y. Arms, Digital Libraries (2001:2)

4. "If You Build It, Will They Come?" "There are now many online, digital resources in the humanities, and their creation is funded by various governmental, academic, and philanthropic sources. What happens to these resources after completion is very poorly understood. No systematic survey of digital resource usage in the humanities has ever been undertaken—and the factors for use and non-use of digital resources are unknown." --Claire Warwick, Melissa Terras et al, 2008

5. World Digital Library

6. BDMX

8. Do people know about them?

9. What do they think of them?

10. What can user experience say about these resources?

12. Ten questions each, five demographic

13. Done using free version of Survey Monkey

14. Distributed through Twitter, a HASTAC blog post and by email to followers, students and colleagues over four months

16. WDL: 26 of 39 completed survey

17. In average, 90% of completed responses from users with Mexican IPs, 5% from the UK

18. Age of respondents 21-30 37.8% 31-40 40.5% 41-50 13.5% 51-60 5.4%

19. Had you heard of the World Digital Library before answering this survey? WDL BDMX

22. serendipity

23. interface reflecting different forms of research; allowing simple discovery and sophisticated advanced search, social search methods for collaborative practice, the ability to search within a collection or subcollection.

24. connection with the physical

25. enable other parties to build upon, reframe, and reuse --Dan Cohen "What Scholars Want from the Digital Public Library of America", 1st March 2011

26. ¿Qué falta en el debate?/ What's Missing from the debate?"The Library as Identity" "It may be that, because of its kaleidoscopic quality, any library, however personal, offers to whoever explores it a reflection of what he or she seeks, a tantalizing wisp of intuition of who we are as readers, a glimpse into the secret aspects of the self." --Alberto Manguel (2008:305)

28. Collection

29. Digitisation

30. Digital Preservation

31. Curation

32. Location

33. Interface Design

34. Functional Design

36. Collection, digitisation, curation, digital preservation, technical specifications determining access are not neutral processes. Transparency and good practice need implementation.

38. Promotion and public engagement must be permanent.

39. User studies should be carried before the development of the project and publicised widely.

40. Online resources are not only about technology; they're about people. Resources need to be created with users in mind.

41. National Libraries should have control over their own digital content and promote, educate and empower citizens to engage with them and build upon them once created.

42. Structured, reliable metadata is essential.

43. Affordances for sustainability; digital preservation.

45. Images from The Infinite Library, an ongoing project by Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda. This presentation by Ernesto Priego and Ernesto Priani is shared under aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.