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READ/WRITE LIBRARY MAPPING A CITY THROUGH MEDIA
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Read/Write Library is a replicable project that uses local media to examine a region’s creative, political and intellectual interdependencies, creating a visible network of primary sources. We hope to make it available as an open source technical and theoretical template for other cities, borrowing models from library science, urban planning and social networks. Non-professional content receives more respect than in any previous era. By developing contextual and social features within a catalog, we can direct this sentiment at media that wasn’t valued in the cultural climate of its day. Using relative tags and non-hierarchical subject and keyword combinations helps hyperlocal or alternative perspectives compete in search engines alongside dominant historical records and fill in massive blindspots, and each entry is mapped and treated as a social object where users can share stories of the forgotten, marginalized or even still-active communities connected to these publications. http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13252
Transcript of SXSW 2012: Read/Write Library: Mapping a City Through Media
READ/WRITE LIBRARY
MAPPING A CITY THROUGH MEDIA
CULTURAL MEMORY
ERASURE BY OMISSION
ARCHIVE EVERYTHING.
COMMUNITY IS NOT READ-ONLY…
…AND IT ALREADY HAS A VOICE
NEW VALUES: CONTEXT
NO QUALITY OR IMPORTANCE
NICE, CLEAN DATA
NICE, CLEAN DATA (NOT LIKELY.)
ORGANIZING ALL THIS INFORMATION
OBLIGATORY LITERAL PHOTO OF SILOS
CATALOG + COMMUNITY HISTORY
PARALLEL NETWORKS
NETWORKS ON THE GROUND
COMMUNITY IS SELF-DEFINING
NETWORKS ONLINE
GUIDING PARTICIPATION
HUB-AND-SPOKE MODEL
CULTURAL MEMORY
ATTENTION VS. NEGLECT
NEIGHBORHOOD CASE STUDY
REPLICATION FOR OTHER CITIES
READ/WRITE LIBRARY Nell Taylor
[email protected] @nelltaylor @TheChibrary
www.readwritelibrary.org
Chicago photos courtesy of Katherine Hodges / flickr: katherine of chicago
Thanks: @margaretheller, @kdc, @nickd, @me3dia and @agentfin
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