Expanding on Web 2.0 concepts, this presentation applies them to the impact on public history delivery. May 2008

2. Poll: Who’s Here? How Comfortable / Familiar With Web 2.0 Are You? Tag Clouds Social Networking Folksonomy Podcasts Blogs Wikis RSS Geo- Coded

3. “ Online gathering spots like these represent a potentially radical change to historical research, a craft that has changed little for decades, if not centuries. By aggregating the grass-roots knowledge and recollections of hundreds, even thousands of people, " crowdsourcing ," as it's increasingly called, may transform a discipline that has long been defined and limited by the labors of a single historian toiling in the dusty archives ” Everyone’s a historian now http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/25/everyones_a_historian_now

4. More Digitization by Institutions Images, Maps, Audio, Video, Documents, Newspapers … National Digital Newspaper Program a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress to build a national digital resource of newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. mnhs.org/collections/kstp mnhs.org/truenorth

5. http://flickr.com/photos/chadwho1ders/2523836732 More Digitization by General Public User Generated Content http://youtube.com/results?search_query=hugo+tornado&search_type=

6. http://juhansuku.blogspot.com Juhan suku-uutiset Genealogy and history from Finland, sometimes even in English. Documented sources. Self Publishing Blogs See also: http://blogfinder.genealogue.com

7. User Generated Content Storytelling http://people.mnhs.org/mgg/story.cfm?storyid=1003

8. User Generated Content Storytelling Hurricane Digital Memory Bank http://hurricanearchive.org/object/2797

9. http://placeography.org Collaborative History Placeography A wiki about any place anywhere that anyone can edit. Geo-coded data Architectural info History Chronology Memories & Stories Citations Related Content Photos

11. http://go.footnote.com/thewall?xid=159 “pay tribute by adding photos, comments and stories of those who lost their lives during the Vietnam conflict. “ Footnote partnered with NARA to link the service records and casualty reports to each name on the Wall. http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2008/nr08-77.html Collaborative History Footnote Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial

12. Collaborative History MHS Record Annotation Tool

13. http://lerdorf.com/php/ymap/yquakes.php A mashup is a web application that uses content from more than one source to create a new service. Real Time, World Wide Earthquake List http://www.placeopedia.com Content Mashups USGS Seismology Data + Yahoo Maps Google Maps + Wikipedia Articles

14. Within 5 years GPS devices will be able to find digitized content from government agencies, cultural heritage institutions, universities, libraries and other web sites that pertain to my current location. click click Location-Aware Data Access Content Mashups

15. Finding Information Inside Databases and Across Collections A Bush Foundation funded project to provide access to cultural heritage information across MN, ND and SD. mnhs.org/peoplefinder mnhs.org/keywordfinder find Probing the Deep Web

16. Virtual Reality Enriched With Collections and Interpretation Monticello Explorer Fort Snelling Perspectives prototype http://explorer.monticello.org Digital model of Rome in 320 AD University of Virginia IATH Goal: Expand to Bronze Age and Medieval Period using data from community of archeologists. http://romereborn.virginia.edu Virtual Past

17. Virtual World: http://www.slideshare.net/ialja/virtual-worlds-introduction-second-life-and-beyond?src=related_normal&rel=80946 What is Second Life? A 3D online virtual world imagined created and owned by its residents. It has islands, buildings, objects and avatars that interact with each other. Virtual Past

18. Digital History Content is Ubiquitous Always Connected to Internet

19. What About Reliability? Institutional Voice? “ We can only build emergent systems if we have radical trust . With an emergent system, we build something without setting in stone what it will be or trying to control all that it will be. We allow and encourage participants to shape and sculpt and be co-creators of the system. We don't have a million customers/users/patrons ... we have a million participants and co-creators .“ Darlene Fichter, University of Saskatchewan Libraries, 2 April 2006, “ Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Radical Trust: A First Take”

21. Still bewildered? Watch the Plain English videos at Commoncraft.com/show