I talked about the growing use of dst in pedagogy, oral history, community writing efforts across the nation. Joe Lambert’s (Director of Center for DST) efforts for over a decade to encourage dst. Tons of content is being created but there is no place to archive that is open access (like the Knowledge Bank here at OSU).

[In a previous conversation with Louie Ulman, he suggested contacting the Library of Congress and talking with them about the StoryCorp archive. Still plan to.]

The hope would be to create mechanisms with reasonably simple submission/archival [with a preservation plan]/and streaming-access. Johnathan Rush (Geography PhD student) is working on a mapping/spacialized interface for the Hilltop project, for instance that would pull media and metadata from the current KB archive and OSU streaming server).

I used my Hilltop Stories from that Columbus neighborhood as an example. Some samples are on the Knowledge Bank (kb.osu.edu), search for “Hilltop Stories.”

The system, once set up, could be duplicated for other archival purposes. An example of in-class videos for new and training teachers was described. But also for folklore and other narrative oriented disciplines.

Questions to concern yourself with:
What constitutes a dst will need to be hashed out with the principle people and submitters eventually. Who will review the content submitted?

Certain to grow, what media might the NdstA contain? Any one project might contain images, textual material, video, audio, other artifacts?

What are the essential metadata components that might you require/request?

How can the materials be (1) easily found (2) assigned CR (3) made available for re-use & mashup? The NdstA might be the preservation area but the real use of the stories is in their accessibility through local web presence (online newspapers and school web sites), sophisticated mapping interfaces, online gaming systems, neighborhood orgs., etc.

The Knowledge Bank (KB) representatives suggested that

The KB is interested in talking about the project. They have a long list of requests to consider in addition.
It’s more likely that one place hosting the whole thing that a consortia of archival sites might collaborate on something this ‘potentially’ big.
Perhaps this should start with a series of neighborhood and Ohio archive portals and grow outward after a proof of concept is built.
There is the challenge of pulling artifacts and metadata from multiple sites and multiple archival systems (not just dSpace) into our imagined mapping/spatialization site.
In terms of intellectual property, the KB asks for non-exclusive rights to publish materials. They will embargo materials for up to 5 years (i.e. journals publishing current articles)
Also talked about making stuff available to Google and Google scholar spiders

I walked away promising that I (Dickie Selfe) would put together an program-level IRB so that the archive could be trusted and used for scholarship. After that I’ll pull the useful information from that and propose a project to the KB and set up some meetings.

Dr. Richard (Dickie) Selfe
Director, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing
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