Sg2009wc:accessible

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Title: Making Information Accessible Session

Session: 2-J Bay Area Jan 2009

Conveners: Gail Haspert and Daniela Barbosa

Note taker: Gail Haspert

Discussion topics:

Inability to know the audience for information and know what audience needs: in library school, students are taught the reference interview to know exactly what people are looking for.

Structuring information through metadata:

• Controlled vocabulary
• User tagging
• Automated meta-tagged

We discussed:

• Creating semantic relationships between content silos
• Role of Postitfact.org to verify information, in context, of candidates’ speeches and other information

We now have the ability to compare information from public speakers in different venues, locations, audiences, positions

• Community journalism and collaboration ; means of overcoming the limits imposed by news corporations so that we readers can have a fuller picture of the whole story by sharing chunks of a story among journalists.
• Citizen journalism where non-journalists report what is going on.
• Twittering and blogging: twittering is so much easier than blogging. You don’t need to construct paragraphs in Twitter and you are limited to 140 characters.
• Using tools for communication, such as Delicious, Powertset, Freebase, Funfeed, Friendfeed.
• The goodness of user forums for finding information that you need for products. The goodness is based on user experience.
• The role of Wikipedia and Dbpedia for finding and structuring information.
• Twittering:
  • Strategies for rumor control; ask news disseminator directly where they got information.
  • The tendency of loud people to Twitter loudly and often
  • How anonymity can breed arrogance
• In the future, filters will help us to find information that we need and avoid noise.
• Twitter, Blogs, and others are playgrounds for communication.
• Ways to archive Twitter and email so that the writer owns their words.

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