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Opening Keynote - Gregory CraneWaiting for the Gettysburg Address or
A Phase Shift in Teaching, Learning, and Research?Gregory Crane, Tufts University Welcome Remarks Lee Zia, National Science Foundation Introduction Kaye Howe, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Gregory Crane holds a professorship in the Department of Classics at Tufts as well as the Winnick Family Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship. His association with the well known Perseus Project began in 1986 and since 1988 he has been Editor-in- Chief. In an interview with First Monday he said: Perseus has gone well beyond print and has become one of the most successful and well used digital libraries. Greg Crane is a man whose honors and recognition span the distance from the Lowell Prize for Excellence in Greek in 1977 to the 2001 Vannevar Bush Award for Best Paper at JCDL. He has much to tell about the ways in which digital libraries are the cognitive tools of the educational and intellectual world. Notes from Gregory Crane Session
Tradition of hearing learned people speak at great length - The Gettysburg Address marks the end of the preacher as a dominant figure. Rise of new technocratic elite Here, in this room, are a lot of people who spent a lot of time in school cyberinfrastructure nobody really knows what it means yet, so i can say whatever i want about it trend towards interdisciplination and collaboration electronic medium has means to provide ability to do both of those - new kinds of collaboration across science, new audiences drawn in - plan for change and revolution key thing to think about is how to design data and tools to support this
experiences becoming more powerful how to design systems today to provide for ? and audiences you never thought about immense amount of curiousity in America looking at bigger audience than just the elite literacy is not just reading Hamlet and Homer - it has to do with mathematical and scientific languages, pictures, any kind of knowledge basic infrastructure is not in place multiple ways of seeing the same data - Multiple Listing Service for real estate - real live example of a separation of the data from representation - representations are done "on the fly" - some free but not all free information how do you tie topic (subject, interest) - particulars of the subject - how do you cover it and tie it to something broader? social infrastructures are important aspects of the technical innovations so how do we work together - if realtors can do it...? your primary audience (to design for) is people who will be your students in 5-10 years out of community - people have created a scholarly edition of Buffy the Vampire Slayer" - someone downloads the episode and digitizes it from satellite feed - many others make commentary - my son reads and has several commentaries prepared while watching broadcaset episode - he is interested How do we create tools that will engage this generation or those even younger? information - we think of book model - they read the book - go to web site and follow it as you planned the path new model - books talk to each other - and they talk to each other about you - they know about you data is reassembling itself on the fly for you and what you are doing how are peole going to interact with your materials? but also how does your site material play with other sites/materials? - this is important for sustaining your materials services, audiences, data - interact and feed on each other and propagate each other - how everything impacts everything else street maps - 1830s London - London of Oliver Twist - 16 miles of street, no buildings still remain curently maps on very fragile paper - but maps have been re-created on computer change of access change of how we perceive and understand the data technology thoughts of many people is "How do i get things i need out of it?" not "If it isn't perfect, I can't use it." information would provide people a means to look at the world they live in, in completely different ways the more analysis of what's happening in NSDL documents, the better graphic visualizations of text
we need to think about shared vocabularies and shared ways of thinking about the same problems need to design data up front to be most usable over time worry about front-end design and user interface all the time - important - saves you today but don't forget about back-end design - it allows you to refine data over time data - need clean atomic structures - pieces to pull out and reuse - ultimately, your materials will be cherry-picked by people or machines to be repurposed over time CommentsPlease enter any comments in the following format.
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