My HuntLibrary: Building new things despite uncertainty and risk

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1. My #HuntLibrary building new things despite uncertainty and risk Bret Davidson NCSU Libraries
2. Who are we? NCSU Digital Library Initiatives Digital Services Development Librarian Developers 25+ Applications go.ncsu.edu/dli
3. Agenda My #HuntLibrary Work Practices Risk in MHL
4. James B. Hunt, Jr. Library Opened January 2013
9. lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary
10. goals
11. increase engagement
12. contribution mechanism
13. explore new technologies
14. My #HuntLibary/lentil go.ncsu.edu/myhunt
15. enabling features
16. responsive
17. RESPONSIVE
18. battle
19. social
20. curated and popular views
21. contributor pages
22. harvesting
23. moderation
24. themes
25. How do students relate to libraries?
26. Building crowdsourced photographic collections with lentil and Instagram speakerdeck.com/cazzerson
27. How do students relate to us? (de)centralization (relation) consumption/creation (direction) physical/virtual (setting) individual/community (identity) present/future (horizon)
28. (de)centralization (relation)
29. social network
30. authors
31. #huntlibrary authors
32. aggregating peers
33. lentil users
34. services, archives
35. indirect participation
36. the life of a lentil image 1. metadata of user-tagged Instagram image is harvested via API 2. image is approved by moderator 3. image battles, collects "likes" (subjective metadata) 4. (loop) calculate popularity score 5. (loop) check for removal from Instagram 6. image file is harvested and stored in staging area 7. donor agreement is automatically submitted as a comment 8. barring author objection, image metadata and file are packaged for (future) external system
37. Libraries as Storytelling Platforms
38. Engaging the Academic Community: Library as Storytelling Platform slideshare.net/mikecontrol
39. Oldenburg's “third places" neutral social sites where conversation is the main activity
41. Why did people participate? Others to see my picture: 83% Contribute to NCSU archive: 75% Win an iPad Mini: 58% See my pic on a public display: 50% Other: 25%
42. How would you feel about your photos being added to an archival collection?
43. “I would be so excited. For me, I think it would be better than winning an iPad."
47. usage 3000+ images 7700+ "likes" 70,000+ "battles" 37,000+ visits 240,000+ pageviews 1000+ donor agreements 2 objections
48. work practices
49. brainstorming
50. rapid prototyping
51. one pager Summary Requirements Features Out of Scope Project Team Schedule
52. out of scope Images not related to Hunt Advanced curation tools Advanced presentation of images
53. project team Mike Nutt => product lead Jason Casden => project manager Cory Lown => developer Bret Davidson => developer Jason Ronallo => rails expert Brian Dietz => special collections Jennifer Garrett => visitor experience
54. other partners Steve Morris => project champion Will Cross => copyright/legal David Hiscoe => communications Todd Kosmerick => archives Library Admin => contest Library IT => microtiles And more...
55. trello
56. peer instruction
57. pair programming
58. code review
59. blameless post-mortem go.ncsu.edu/postmortem
60. questions What worked well? What was frustrating? What were you proud of? What would you change if you had magical powers? How did you feel about our estimates and plan? Were expectations clear? Did the team work together well?
61. risk
62. “learn everything, then there is no such thing as sight-reading" Brian Bowman
63. “mini moon shots"
64. minimum viable product
65. risk mitigation in MHL
66. timeline
67. new technologies
68. participation
69. legal issues
70. instagram platform
71. risk in MHL Timeline New Technologies Participation Legal Issues Instagram Platform
72. closing thoughts scope ruthlessly practice work mitigate risk
73. credits Jason Casden Brian Dietz Jennifer Garrett Cory Lown Mike Nutt Jason Ronallo ...and many others
74. github.com/NCSU-Libraries/lentil
75. Thank You! bret_davidson@ncsu.edu | http://go.ncsu.edu/myhunt