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Communication in eCulture

Shih-Chieh Li, Executive Secretary NDAP Program Office, Taiwan

Table of Content

• NDAP in a glance
• what I won't talk about.
• web-based interactions as communication
• architecture of participation
• open source and the others
• global digital commons

NDAP in a glance

• goal: building national digital archives,

preserving national culture (http:// www.ndap.org.tw)

• national science program started since 2002

to 2006

• in year 2004, we produced digitization

results total size 63.486TB; overall results ~200TB

• 15 core projects, including National Palace

Museum and other museums, libraries and archives.

What I won't talk about.

• technology. But I will mention the utilization

and connection of technologies to create communication.

• content. But the discussion about various

content is important in communication.

• medium. But the user experiences in every

(connected) medium that forms eCulture.

So I'd like to mention...

• technologies.
• various forms of content.
• connected medium.
• and how these components shape the

communication in eCulture.

What if communication happens in...

• geeks around the world
• about digital objects in digital archives

among their creators

• presenters that made various sources on

similar topic / focus / interest

• independent web archives of separate

mailing lists / BBS boards and sites

from mailing lists to blogs

• Amsterdam, Next 5 Minutes Tactical Media

Conference, September 2003.

• media activists since 70s embrace the

technologies of 90s.

• the rise of "multitude": close centralized

communication to open distributed communication

Slashdot & "Silent Service"

• one of the earliest collective

weblogs and successful paradigm on earth since 1997

• "News for Nerds. Stuff that

matters.", just like CNN in the computer-Internet communities

• community power exhibited

by "slashdotted"(slashdot effect)

wikipedia slashdotted

wikipedia: collective writing

• diff: differences in log

file that facilitate collaborative writing

• dialogue about the
• bjects
• templates facilitate
• fficial dialogue
• attention filter/

management mechanism.

Blogs.

• People do have opinions.
• And they love to share with others.
• Creative ideas links people cross borders.
• all kinds of materials including text, photo/

images (moblog), sound (Podcasting) and video (vblog)

Blogosphere.

• the ecology of "producers"

and layers of "consumers"

• e.g. aggregators like

technorati

• "harvestor"
• Canadian Blogosphere.

Geo-Spatial Annotation

• ...as communication.