My HuntLibrary: Building new things despite uncertainty and risk

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My #HuntLibrary building new things despite uncertainty and risk Bret Davidson NCSU Libraries

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Who are we? NCSU Digital Library Initiatives Digital Services Development Librarian Developers 25+ Applications go.ncsu.edu/dli

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Agenda My #HuntLibrary Work Practices Risk in MHL

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James B. Hunt, Jr. Library Opened January 2013

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lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary

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goals

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increase engagement

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contribution mechanism

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explore new technologies

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My #HuntLibary/lentil go.ncsu.edu/myhunt

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enabling features

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responsive

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RESPONSIVE

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battle

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social

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curated and popular views

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contributor pages

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harvesting

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moderation

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themes

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How do students relate to libraries?

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Building crowdsourced photographic collections with lentil and Instagram speakerdeck.com/cazzerson

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How do students relate to us? (de)centralization (relation) consumption/creation (direction) physical/virtual (setting) individual/community (identity) present/future (horizon)

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(de)centralization (relation)

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social network

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authors

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#huntlibrary authors

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aggregating peers

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lentil users

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services, archives

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indirect participation

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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

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Libraries as Storytelling Platforms

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Engaging the Academic Community: Library as Storytelling Platform slideshare.net/mikecontrol

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Oldenburg's “third places" neutral social sites where conversation is the main activity

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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%

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How would you feel about your photos being added to an archival collection?

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“I would be so excited. For me, I think it would be better than winning an iPad."

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usage 3000+ images 7700+ "likes" 70,000+ "battles" 37,000+ visits 240,000+ pageviews 1000+ donor agreements 2 objections

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work practices

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brainstorming

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rapid prototyping

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one pager Summary Requirements Features Out of Scope Project Team Schedule

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out of scope Images not related to Hunt Advanced curation tools Advanced presentation of images

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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

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other partners Steve Morris => project champion Will Cross => copyright/legal David Hiscoe => communications Todd Kosmerick => archives Library Admin => contest Library IT => microtiles And more...

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trello

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peer instruction

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pair programming

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code review

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blameless post-mortem go.ncsu.edu/postmortem

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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?

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risk

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“learn everything, then there is no such thing as sight-reading" Brian Bowman

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“mini moon shots"

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minimum viable product

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risk mitigation in MHL

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timeline

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new technologies

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participation

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legal issues

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instagram platform

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risk in MHL Timeline New Technologies Participation Legal Issues Instagram Platform

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closing thoughts scope ruthlessly practice work mitigate risk

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credits Jason Casden Brian Dietz Jennifer Garrett Cory Lown Mike Nutt Jason Ronallo ...and many others