Comments for THATCamp Wellington 2013

Comment on TALK: Communicating Resources to Researchers by Communicating Resources to Researchers – Options suggested during session | THATCamp Wellington 2013

Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:46:33 +0000

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Comment on TALK: Audience by Maia Ngaorangi

Maia Ngaorangi — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 18:57:39 +0000

That would be an almost impossible ask wouldn’t it? I mean, how would you find out what your particular audience engages in, in terms of their choice of digital platform use? Broadly speaking I would imagine you would start at the other end of that line of questioning (I have a marketing and communications background) i.e. how do you reach your particular audience through digital platforms, where do they find your links, how ‘available’ is access to your platform, what search engines are you visible through, is your language pitched to your audience/s etc. Sorry not trying to be critical just raising some discussion points. 🙂

Comment on TALK: Exchanging knowledge services for data by Tellya Later

Tellya Later — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 03:51:47 +0000

THATcamp misc notes

1 Session notes
1.1 what types of human data are interesting, but difficult to collect

Everything, basically, but especially data that can be analysed
in its own right.

1.2 what kinds of services or formats could be used to entice people to produce that data

whatever it is, it needs to have a competitive or social aspect

1.3 what are some reasons why these types of services have succeeded/failed in the past

successful services need to enrich someone’s life

difficult to find motivating factor

hard to keep people coming back

takes time to build an audience

ensure it’s usable

start from an existing need/demand

have to have a way to filter out the garbage

1.3.1 Ethical issues

ethical issues – who benefits? Ideally, both users and data
collector’s interests should be balanced, with an emphasis on users

be upfront and not sneaky

release data to public

don’t be like Google+ where they claim to make it beneficial to user, but actually it’s not

1.3.2 Be a member of the community
1.3.3 help users be social with each other
1.4 what existing platforms/projects could be leveraged to facilitate data collection and service provision

mix and mash: open government initiative in NZ

five stars of open access

others?

1.5 problems with volunteer crowd sourcing and gamification
1.5.1 not representative group?
2 history example

How could this idea be used to generate new data that would be
worthy of analysis to historians?

get children to record their grandparents stories

and have contests

Comment on TEACH: Using Video Essays as a Research/Teaching Tool by Miriam Ross

Miriam Ross — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 01:35:28 +0000

Some of the software discussed in the session was

Editing:
Final Cut X and Adobe Premiere are professional programmes which are worth using if you have the money for them
iMovie and Window Live Movie Maker are free programmes that will do the job

Creating/Finding content
ishowu (paid for) will let you capture your computer movements
firefox Flash Video Downloader add on (free) will let you download most videos online
the advanced search function in google will let you see “usage rights” so you can find images that can be shared/modified/etc

these are just starting points and there are lots more freely available. happy for people to add to this list.

Comment on TEACH: Using Video Essays as a Research/Teaching Tool by Stephen Marshall

Stephen Marshall — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:34:24 +0000

Folk may find this useful:

acomp.stanford.edu/tutorials/storyboarding

Comment on TEACH: Database fundamentals by christopher.thomson

christopher.thomson — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 22:48:34 +0000

I've been using this SQL designer tool which is nice for drawing tables and creating relations between them. You can also save your project as an XML file so you can back up your work, share or load back into the browser later.

Comment on TEACH: Database fundamentals by Rebecca Lenihan

Rebecca Lenihan — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 21:47:19 +0000

Link to a Google Drive folder with some sample data and a pdf of the basic principles powerpoint here: drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9AU6p1uzAS-SEd1TFUxXzdSSTQ&usp=sharing

Comment on TEACH: What can a SPARQL endpoint do for you? by Tim McNamara

Tim McNamara — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:03:02 +0000

Also YES! Loving the expansion of Linked Data here in New Zealand.

Comment on TEACH: Using Video Essays as a Research/Teaching Tool by Andy Fenton

Andy Fenton — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:21:38 +0000

Thanx Miriam, I’m interested in your subject and also wish to explore how we might personalise communications using video such as motivational messages to staff, or the one by Michael Edson I used at the NDF Conference Close, OR course intro’s for students – such as the THATCamp 101 – Ground Rules vid by Amanda French tutorial Donelle sent us the url to, OR even tutorials on how to operate software/eqpt.

See you this am,

Andy Fenton

Comment on TEACH: Database fundamentals by Rebecca Lenihan

Rebecca Lenihan — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:30:47 +0000

For sure, feel free to bring along some software to try out afterwards, but for the session itself even just old fashioned pen and paper will do – we’ll be going right back to basics.