Leveraging History With Social Technologies

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Leveraging History With Social Technologies

• Oakdale, NY

The Long Island South Shore History Project
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Why did we do it?

• Proposal for physical space
• Lack of area historical society
• Generating historical interest for the campus
• Address gaps in physical holdings
• The notion of virtual archives

Remember, the day after you photograph something
it potentially becomes an historical archive
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LISSH Wiki Applications _at_ Dowling

• Supplements Archives Special collections
• Tie-Ins to Dowling Courses
• Natural Environment
• Genealogy
• Gilded Age
• Special Events Coincides with 40th Anniversary

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Examples of Web 2.0 Technologies

• Blogs
• Mashups (Maps and Podcasts)
• Video
• Open OCLC
• Deep Web Links

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Blog Example LI Genealogy
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Blog Example Question of the Week
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Map Mashup 1 Vanderbilt Estates
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Map Mashup 2 LI Estates
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Mashup 2 Oheka Example
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Map Mashup 3 Idle Hour Map
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Mashup 3 Stables- Artist Colony
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Mashup 3 Idle Hour Mansion From Above
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Map Mashup 4 Listening Tour
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Mashup 4 Podcast Link
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Podcasts More Info Link
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Video Example 1 Screencast
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Video Example 2 Fives Court
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Video Example 2 Eton Fives
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Video Example 3 PBS
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Video Example 3 Grand Central on PBS
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Open OCLC
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Open OCLC Link Example
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Deep Web Links
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Deep Web Link Example 1
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Deep Web Link Example 2
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Deep Web Link 2 Met Museum
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Photo Archive Example 1 Library Flickr Site
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Flickr Credit and Marketing Link
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Flickr Comment Marketing Example
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Other Library Sponsored Wikis

• Other ways we are using it
• Course Guides
• What Im Reading
• Travels with Dowling

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Contact Us

• Judy Brink
• brinkJ_at_dowling.edu
• (631) 244 - 3081

Holliday Diane Holliday
hollidad_at_dowling.edu (631) 244 - 3397
http//LISSHistory.dowling.edu