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Title: Thematic Compendiums and Virtual Research Rooms


1
Thematic CompendiumsandVirtual Research
Rooms Outlining on-line service concepts for
the digital collections of the Finnish Literature
Society
  • Heli Kautonen
  • Estonian annual Folklorists' Conference
  • "Haldjas 10" 15.12.2005
  • Nüpli, Estonia

2
  • Cultural heritage meets the on-line era
  • Developing and adopting new technology
  • Role of information professionals
  • Focus on communities
  • New on-line service concepts of SKS
  • A) Thematic Compendiums
  • B) Virtual Research Rooms
  • Discussion

3
Cultural heritage meets the on-line era
  • General demand Internet access to cultural
    heritage resources for all
  • Digitalization consumes resources but is not
    funded
  • New rhetoric productization, profitability,
    content production, user-centric approach...
  • Various emerging technical innovations
  • Which one to follow? Where to invest?

4
Developing and adopting new technology
  • Technology as an instrument?
  • Technology as a resolution?
  • ...or "cultural production of new forms of
    material practice" (Suchman 2000)
  • Acknlowledging participation, locality, limited
    control, heterogeinity
  • Actors in the central point

5
Role of information professionals
  • Advanced search tools vs. Google
  • Multitude of information systems, information
    models, representations
  • Information professionals' new role as knowledge
    mediators, tutors

6
Focus on communities
  • Internet communities virtual communities
  • Factors of success
  • purpose and limited scope
  • certain rules or habits
  • trust

7
New on-line service concepts of SKS
  • Current on-line services lack clarity,
    integration, explanation
  • From pilot projects to concept-based development
    of services
  • Information professionals as knowledge mediators
  • Room for research communities
  • Clear concepts aid future development activities

8
A) Thematic Compendiums
  • Provide
  • Peek to the wealth of SKS collections
  • Contextual basis for understanding collections
  • High-quality web publications
  • Digital material in the core
  • Draw together material from different
    collectionsaround a theme
  • Aim advise how to use information and
    information systems

9
B) Virtual Research Rooms
  • More and more databases providing information
  • Sensitive data can not be published on the WWW
  • Access given to registered users only
  • Aim on-line access to tools and opportunity to
    interaction

10
Discussion
  • Putting it to action?
  • requires novel technical infrastructures
  • consumes human resources
  • Distribution? Co-operation?
  • Limited access vs. open-access?
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