Volunteers for 1890s' Scrapbook Transcription Project
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Volunteers for 1890s Scrapbook Transcription Project
Hi folks - I'm looking for participants for an web-based crowd sourced data project called the Naturalist's Scrapbook. Volunteers will be able to log in to the project, look at the pages of a beautiful scrapbook collected by a female lighthouse keeper and naturalist in the 1890s, and answer questions about the clippings they see. The data collected will help enhance current understandings of the life of this incredible woman, whose personal collection of artifacts, specimens, and curios is the foundational collection of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.
I'm doing this project for one of my current employers, and as part of my final coursework in UW's Master of Library and Information Science Program. So, while this is technically an ask, I'm also happy to talk to anyone about working in libraries/archives/museums, UW, MLIS programs or being an online grad student.
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Thanks, great and interesting.
I'm replying in the context of developing online World University and School - worlduniversityandschool.org - which is like Wikipedia in 299 languages with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in 5 languages.
5 possible articulations:
1. Please keep in mind how your work on "the Naturalist's Scrapbook," at Univ of Washington/ Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, as it progresses would articulate within a realistic virtual earth - think adding "Naturalist's Scrapbook" images and volunteers additions, to Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth, and then eventually patching these images together to create an interpretation of the natural world of 1890s' Santa Cruz, for example. As an overview, in the Google Street View image here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/lions-in-trees-all-libraries-all.html - of a Swiss library, imagine pulling any of the books you see off the shelf in a realistic virtual earth and reading in online - as an organizing principle for all libraries from all times in all languages. (To see what I mean further with Google Street View with time slider, visit the Harbin Hot Springs front gate ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg and "walk" down the road 4 miles to Middletown; this is part of a large actual-virtual ethnographic book I've recently written about Harbin ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook).
2. Since this "Naturalist's Scrapbook" predates copyright of the 1920s, please keep in mind Creative Commons' licensing, and articulating with related open Wikimedia projects re licensing, and subsequent accessibility of images, beyond thesis and book forms. What licensing are you engaging? And how open and accessible will these resources be? (WUaS is very CC-4 MIT OCW-centric on our planned free online degree side).
3. World University and School, of which I'm the founder and president, seeks to create online Libraries & Museums in each of all 7,097 living languages +. (Again WUaS is like Wikipedia in 299 languages with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare in 5 languages). Wiki-add resources to https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources& https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Museums - and eventually in all countries' languages. This will also happen in a realistic virtual earth. (Think Google Street View with time slider). How would someone eventually add "the Naturalist's Scrapbook" and your UW thesis, for example to WUaS - brainstorming-wise, and such that you could find volunteers to work further on your great project from within WUaS?
4. Please keep in mind further degree and museum and library employment possibilities at WUaS in the future, as well as WUaS articulations with UW and the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, and other museums (worldwide).
5. Lastly I wonder how your project could inform a new method in the social sciences I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - as a kind of open-ended Reedie and theoretical question.
Will you be at Reed Reunions on June 9? I hope to be.
Cheers,
Scott
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Hi Kathleen,
As a followup, I blogged about this - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/04/zalophus-reed-college-volunteers-for.html - and perhaps this will bring you some volunteers.
I also live in the East Bay Hills of the SF Bay Area, where it looks like you have some roots.
By the way, I saw this Tweet about your project - https://twitter.com/ReedSwitchboard/status/985265547066527744 - and retweeted it here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch?lang=en .
Cheers, Scott
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Lions in trees: ALL Libraries & ALL Museums in ALL 7,097 Living Languages in Realistic Virtual Earth from UNDERSTAND Google Street View, "Library Resources" and "Museums" at WUaS (in ALL Languages) ... and as "place" and "field sites" too, Open a book in any library in any language and read it then and there ... Visit a piece of art in storage in any museum in any language ... and with a WUaS universal translator including developing machine learning ...
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2015/11/lions-in-trees-all-libraries-all.html*
Reed College Reunions' Marketplace 2018?
Hi M,
How are you today?
I think I'm going to head to Reed College reunions around Sat. June 9 ... partly with my second book "Haiku~ish" in hand for sale at Reed Marketplace (and my first book Naked Harbin Ethnography) ... and as Academic Press at World University and School representative ... and maybe even to explore setting up a beginning online bookstore to build from ... as well as a traveling WUaS bookshop possibly (no van with robotics yet:)
... and partly as kind of outreach for World University and School to Reedies re online Law School, for example ...
L, Scott
- - WUaS Press at Reed College Reunions' Marketplace 2017 (see Harbin book here) - https://web.archive.org/web/20170510035319/https://reunions.reed.edu/marketplace.html
Scott MacLeod ’85: World University and School
Author of Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
Author of Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
See Reed College Renunions' Marketplace here too - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
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