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The Importance of Community Voices in Metadata Creation

November 13, 2011 - 22:10 — jenmwang

Genocide
Archive Rwanda, a digital archive now available to the public,
documents the 1994 murders of millions of Rwandans. Born
out of the collaboration between the Kigali Genocide Memorial, Aegis
Trust, Rwanda's National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide
and the Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) at the

Google for Veterans

November 11, 2011 - 17:13 — curtis

Veterans Day 2011

BBC's Digital Media Initiative and challenges with describing multimedia resources

October 24, 2011 - 03:16 — kiran

The UK public television giant, BBC arguably holds one of the largest collection of natural history video footage in the world. This article in Techtarget describes the evolution of digital asset management practices in BBC and how they organized massive collection of broadcasted and non-broadcasted footage.

Historypin, A New Tool for Digital Storytelling

October 23, 2011 - 19:30 — Natalie

Historypin, a collaboration between Google and the nonprofit We Are What We Do, is a dedicated space for people to build collections of photos and narratives throughout history. Photos are uploaded, credited, and contextualized (on the right side) and give different (or more flattened) perspectives of historical events, eras, and people. The site leverages a Google Maps API to crowdsource and present location data.

Data Visualization

October 16, 2011 - 09:06 — vimalkini

I came across this project developed a few years back by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamwar called "We feel fine". The application crawls through various blog sites and looks for words "I feel .." or "I am feeling .." and captures the whole sentence until the period. The application displays each sentence as a dot(represents a single person’s feeling) that have their own physics and are continuously moving on the browser. This representation is called "Madness".

Organizing Baby Wails

September 11, 2011 - 14:23 — kay

Evoz dashboard Evoz has taken a data source popularly believed to be of little value and transforming it into potentially life saving information. Evoz decided to look into the communication of babies at their most intense point: when they are crying.

Info 202 Fall 2011

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