WebWise 2008: WebWise 2.0: The Power of Community

The 2008 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World took place March 6-7 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida, with a day of pre-conference workshops on March 5. The theme for this year's conference was "WebWise 2.0: The Power of Community."

Visit the conference Web site to check out the WebWise blog, wiki, and more!

Download 2008 WebWise Agenda (PDF, 758KB)

Download 2008 WebWise Proceedings Book (PDF, 1.7MB)

Print copies of WebWise publications can be requested by e-mailing imlsinfo@imls.gov.

Now available! WebWise Webcasts
Visit the Webcast Web page to view the speakers' presentations.

Full-text papers of many of the presentations are now available in the online journal First Monday, which has been publishing WebWise papers in a special issue each year since the first conference in 2000. Read now.

WebWise 2008 Agenda and Proceedings:

Pre-Conference Workshops—Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Pre-Conference #1: Introduction to Web 2.0 for Libraries and Museums
Organizer: Paul Marty, Florida State University

Speakers:
Helene Blowers, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Holly Witchey, The Cleveland Museum of Art, New Media Initiatives
Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan
Robert Semper, Exploratorium

This session will provide an overview of the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts, virtual reality and other social computing technologies in libraries, museums and archives. Speakers will discuss the ways in which these technologies are revolutionizing information organization and access in cultural heritage organizations. The focus is on the implications of social computing technologies for libraries, museums and archives nationwide, rather than technical issues in developing web 2.0 applications.

Pre-Conference #2: Digital Applications for the Humanities
Organizer: Brett Bobley, National Endowment for the Humanities

Speakers:
The Expanded, On-Line Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Martin Halbert, Emory University

InPhO: The Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project
Colin Allen, Indiana University-Bloomington

Ashes2Art: Digital Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments
Arne Flaten, Coastal Carolina University
Alyson Gill, Arkansas State University

OpenLibrary
Linda Frueh, Internet Archive

This session, organized by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will showcase projects and applications that are building new communities of scholars, students, teachers and members of the general public around the humanities. Session presenters will explain how tools and project designs were developed and will consider how these can be adapted for different domains and audiences.

Conference Day One—Thursday, March 6, 2008

Welcome to WebWise
Cathy Leff, Director, The Wolfsonian-Florida International University
Ronald Berkman, Provost, Florida International University
Anne-Imelda M. Radice, Director, IMLS (Read on First Monday)
Bruce Cole, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities (Read on First Monday)

Keynote Address: Rights and Responsibilities On-Line: A Paradox for our Time
Jonathan Fanton, President, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
(Read on First Monday)

Break and Project Demonstrations:

Omeka: Exhibit Collections Online in the Age of the Web 2.0 Sharon Leon, George Mason University Center for History and New Media

Web-Based Environmental Risk Analysis for Museums and Libraries (WEBERA)
James Reilly, Rochester Institute of Technology Image Permanence Institute

Point, Click, LIsten: Sound Model Demo
Leigh Grinstead, University of Denver/Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP), now merged with the Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR)

DAITSS Preservation Repository
Priscilla Caplan, Florida Center for Library Automation

Build A City
Louis Gerteis, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Developing Customized Browser Plugins with the LIbX Edition Builder
Annette Bailey and Godmar Back, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, University Libraries

Session #1: The Power of Discovery
Moderator: Paul Marty, Florida State University

Speakers:
Zotero and the Next Generation of Digital Research (Read on First Monday)
Dan Cohen, George Mason University Center for History and New Media

Listening to Our Visitors: Steve Museum and the Impact of Social Tagging for Access to Online Collections
Rob Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Art

PlantCollections- A Community Solution (Read on First Monday)
Boyce Tankersley, Chicago Botanic Garden

Keynote Address: The Power of Trust: Forging Interconnections between Virtual and Physical Worlds
Jose'-Marie Griffiths,Dean, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Session #2: The Power of Presentation
Moderator: Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director for Digital Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation

Speakers:
Librarians in Virtual Worlds: Why Get a Second Life? (Read on First Monday)
Ilene Frank, University of South Florida

Multimedia for Peanuts: The Pachyderm Project Turns Five! (Read on First Monday)
Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium

American History and Civic Participants: Creating a Virtual Republic (Read on First Monday)
Bill White, Colonial Williamsburg

Break and Project Demonstrations:

The Truth North Project: Mapping Minnesota's History with Online GIS
Robert Horton, Minnesota Historical Society

From Signs to Satellites: A High Tech Interpretation System for Botanic Gardens
John E. Dawson, Red Butte Gardens and Arboretum

TIDES(Teaching, Images and Digital Experiences)
Rachel Galan, Stephen F. Austin State University

Bringing Live to Light: Biography in Context: Browsing and Searching Biographical Information and Events with a Metadata Infrastructure
Ray Larson, University of California, Berkeley School of Information

T-RACES: Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces
Richard Marciano, University of California, Irvine Humanities Research Institute

ArtsConnectEd 2: A Process for Partnership
Susan Rotilie, Walker Art Center

Session #3: The Power of the User
Moderator: Marsha Semmel, IMLS

Speakers:
Privacy, Trust and a Billion Patrons
Cathy De Rosa, OCLC, Inc.

Keeping it Free from Code to Content in Contributor-Run Archives and Libraries
Paul Jones, iBiblio

Turning Over the Keys: Building a Contemporary Science Community with Science Buzz
Bryan Kennedy, Science Museum of Minnesota

Conference Day Two—Friday, March 7

Keynote Address: Animating the Archive
Jeffrey Schnapp, Founding Director, Stanford Humanities Lab

Session #4: The Power of Collaboration
Moderator: Bernard Reilly, President, Center for Research Libraries

Speakers:
Capturing Connoisseurship: Wiki for Expertise in the Evaluation of Photographs (Read on First Monday)
Roger Bruce, George Eastman House

From Digital Repositories to Information Habitats: The Quilt Index, H-Net, and MATRIX (Read on First Monday)
Mark Kornbluh, Michigan State University

The Encyclopedia of Life, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Biodiversity Informatics and Beyond Web 2.0
(Read on First Monday)
Cathy Norton, The Encyclopedia of Life
11:45 - 12:15 pm

Wrap-Up: What Does It Mean & Where Are We Going?
Robert Semper, Executive Associate Director, Exploratorium

Previous WebWise Conferences:

WebWise 2007: Stewardship in the Digital Age
March 1-2, 2007

WebWise 2006: Inspiring Discovery: Unlocking Collections
February 15-17, 2006

WebWise 2005: Libraries and Museums in the Digital World
February 2005

WebWise 2004: Sharing Digital Resources
March 2004