from http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/curation-lifecycle-model
This is the digital lifecycle that we have been studying all semester in Digital Curation. It's from the Digital Curation Centre in the UK. The stages of this digital lifecycle are:
Conceptualise
Create
Access and Use
Appraise and Select
Dispose
Ingest
Preservation Action
Reappraise
Store
Access and Reuse
Transform
Each week, we have been looking at a different stage of the lifecycle in class. Not going to lie, it's a fairly dry subject, and it's shown me that digital curation is not a possible career for me. I would hate it way too much. It's an important job, but not for me.
Our final assignment for this subject is a scientific report, looking at one aspect of the DCC lifecyle. I've chosen to research the appraisal process. How is it that library organisations and businesses decide what digital information needs to be kept, and what can be thrown away? Does there even need to be an appraisal process, or can everything be kept forever? Hopefully it'll be interesting, and I won't put it off forever like I did the last assignment.
The name of the project that we're working on in class is never going to be Drone Attack! unfortunately, even though that was one of the first names that I came up with and can now not get it out of my head. We're going to call it something much more dull, like DroneSpace or Drone 101. There was a suggestion of Drone for Drones, owing to the target audience who are early school leavers and unemployed youths.
The project is coming along fairly well, we've been defining the project a bit more in depth now, and have a fairly clear idea of what we would like the project to be. It will be twice a week, for two hours per session, a drop in area where people can come in and learn how to build drones. It will be a three-week cycle, meaning that it will probably take about three weeks to build the drone, learn all of the safety and privacy information, do the programming, and then flying. However, due to the target audience of the project, we aren't having specific sessions and classes, and an attitude that attendance is mandatory. Early school leavers will not be interested in going to a library and be lectured at, and they probably won't turn up all the time either. There will be an instructor in the room at all times, but users will be able to work at their own pace. The idea of a MakerSpace is to encourage people to work creatively and imaginatively with technology that they may not have used before, and so we have decided that it isn't necessary to have too much structure in the sessions.
After we have finalised the project itself, we then have to work out the budget. I have volunteered to do this (with someone else, of course, because I'm not great at maths and I need a supervisor), really as a way to get out of having to do the class presentation. It was that or the marketing side of things, which I have no idea about at all. So I'm going to have to start pricing things, beginning with drones and staffing costs, because they're going to be the major expenditures.
Anyway, here's a real drone attack:
Hilarious! I think that we should put that in our marketing campaign.
Thursday, 5 March 2015
So welcome to my blog! This is a first for me, so it's probably going to change quite a bit as I get better at using eblogger.
About me - my name is Nerida, I'm in first semester of MIM, and I currently work as a barista in a cafe. It's a good place to work, and I do enjoy it, but it doesn't tax my brain. I'm ready to do something different, and I think that I would enjoy library work. Something that doesn't cover my clothes and shoes in coffee would be good as well.
My dad is a librarian, currently working as the head librarian at Divine Word University in Papua New Guinea. When I was growing up though, he was the chief medical librarian at Bendigo Base Hospital. So on my days off from school, or when I managed to persuade him that I was way too sick to go to school (I was a terrible liar, and did this a lot), I would go with him to his work, and spend my day shelving books, wandering around, and looking at disgusting diseases in medical books. So for me, libraries are fun places!
I'm not very technologically able when it comes to the internet; I can do very basic things, but I'm hoping to learn more, and to become more skilled than I am. I really skim the surface of Web 2.0, so I think that some of what I'm hoping to achieve through this course is the ability to use the internet more adeptly, and to develop my skill set when it comes to social media and interaction. Understanding how html works is also going to be interesting, I'm quite looking forward to the course, but at the same time I'm a bit nervous because I obviously have a lot to learn.
