scaling social curation: the @discovertotems project monkigras 2013

The DiscoverTotems ProjectScaling DIY Social Curation

@discovertotems / @pythondj

Diane Mueller, Cloud Evangelist ActiveStatedianem@activestate.com

All content & images are Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Licensed unless otherwise noted.

Maps

Social

Cloud

Intersection of 4 Passions Focused on an Obsession

Totem Poles#IdleNoMore

GeoLocation

Private PaaS

Open Source

Power of Social

#IdleNoMore

(Left to right) Idle No More co-founders Nina Wilson, Sulvia McAdam, Sheelah McLean and Jessica Gordon

© Nadya Kwandibens

#IdleNoMore

MAPS

Creating a map is the act of ignoring everything in the world but one thing

They filter out all the chaos of the world and focus obsessively on one item

Every Map is the world seen thru a different lens

Maps Give Meaning

Flickr: batclub

This is where I live

“Discovered” by British Captain George Vancouver in November 1792

Image: Library of Congress

What followed for the indigenous population

• Disease,• Missionaries,• Residential schools, • Potlatch Prohibition • The Indian Act • Broken treaties• Poverty• Loss of Languages

Image source: http://www.anglican.ca/relationships/files/2011/06/School.jpg

Totem Poles every where..

I live in “Totem Pole” Centralmassive number of totems

at our schools & civic buildings..

in our shopping malls

In our airport..

even on our money…

Potlatches = Party!

New ones are being raised all the time!

Flickr: JanetAWalker

GEOLOCATION

• 1. Canada Place Totem Pole49°17’16.42″N 123°6’49.29″W49.287894,-123.113691

• 2. 5th and Main Totem Pole49°15’59.65″N 123° 5’57.01″W

• 3. 3 Vets 7th and Yukon• 4. Capilano Suspension Bridge Totem Poles

49°20’37.35″N,123° 6’46.43″W• 5. Cates Park Deep Cove Totem Pole

49°18.112 N 122°57.308 W′ ′49.331111,-123.035556

• 6. East Hastings Totem Poles• 7. Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal Kwakiutl Bear Pole

49°22’26.22″N,123°16’22.73″W• 8. Horseshoe Bay Park Totem Pole

49°22’30.38″N,123°16’30.96″W• 9. Museum of Anthropology at UBC Totem Poles

49°16’9.62″N 123°15’38.48″W• 10. Squamish Nation Totem Poles, North Vancouver

49°19’11.58″N,123° 7’34.32″W• School• 11. Stanley Park Totem Poles

49°17’57.67″N,123° 7’15.76″W• 12. Thunderbird Marina Totem Poles

49°21’30.06″N, 123°16’1.20″W• 13. Thunderbird Totem Pole at UBC Brock Hall

N 49 16.109 W 123 15.149• 14. Van Dusen Totem Poles

N 49 14.319 W 123 07.777′ ′• 15. Vancouver Airport Totem Poles

49°11’39.96″N, 123°10’33.63″W• 16. Vanier Park Totem Pole

N 49 16.626 W 123 08.861′ ′

• 17. West Vancouver Yacht Club Totem Pole49°21’27.18″N,123°16’17.57″W

• 18. Re-patriated: Totem pole at CBC at Hamilton & Georgia removed as of July, 200649.2796508054,-123.114234861

• 19. Canadian Tire Totem Pole on Cambie49°15’54.18″N,123° 6’52.15″W

• 20. Haida Eagle and Frog Totem on Seymour Street49°16’42.86″N, 123° 7’15.21″W

• 21. Capilano Mall Totem Poles by Norman Tait• 22. Tomahawk Cafe Totem Poles• 23. 1545 E Broadway (Native Housing Society Series)• 24. 1330 East 8th Avenue (Native Housing Society

Series)• 25. 1333 East 7th Avenue (Native Housing Society

Series)• 26. 1575 East 5th Avenue (Native Housing Society

Series)• 27. 1560 East 4th Avenue (Native Housing Society

Series)• 28. 1339 Graveley Street (Native Housing Society Series)• 29. 1856 East Georgia (Native Housing Society Series)• 30. 1766 Frances Street (Native Housing Society Series)• 31. 1823 East Pender St (Native Housing Society Series)

49°16’49.59″N,123° 4’3.33″W (?)• 32. 1725 East Pender (Native Housing Society Series)• 33. Norgate Community • 34. Capilano RV Park

LOTS OF DATA AND NO WAY TO SHARE IT

SOCIAL CURATION

Goal #1 : Make it simple to add CC licenses to content

Minimal Viable Projects(s)

Public Sitewww.discovertotem.com

All content is CC with attibutions license unless otherwise noted

Only PUBLICLY-ACCESSIBLE Totem Poles are “Published” and only if permission is granted by the “Contributor”

PIVOT!

Flickr: Anne Davis

EpiphanyWattPad vs. Pen & Paper

Companion iPhone App

New Problems: Privacy

• Working with Minors– Use in schools, community-specific initiatives,

and for private collections of images• Ownership & First Nations– Safeguarding Integrity of Images & Content

CLOUD

Scaling DIY Social Curation Solution

• Public Site • Federation of private Micro-sites– Share content• Public content visible in Private Sites• Ability to push content to the Public Site• Deployed in a Secure Multi-tenant Private PaaS

• Wipe clean and re-use in a new semester• Aggregate Geo-locations (Public/Private)• Build a better, more complete map

Secure Micro Sites deployed in Private PaaS

Federation of Micro SitesEx: http://discovertotems.stacka.to/

• Hosted in a Secure Private PaaS on Cloud

• All content Password-protected• All content defaults to listed as

“Private” • Unless the “Curator” deems it

sharable with main site – and then sets it to “Published” and added to the main site database

• Can be hosted behind firewall

• Easily re-themed to accommodate the programs in which the project is being hosted• High school• Youth Groups• Band Initiatives• Destination Tourism

DiscoverTotems/Roy Henry Vickers Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

What’s Next?

• iPhone App available in App Store• With a little help from FeedHenry– new Mobile App for all Devices

• Aboriginal Business Match 2013 2/18/2013– Meet with delegates of BC First Nations and Tribal

Councils• StrongerNations.com 3/21/2013– Meet with BC Educators

• Engage, Collaborate• Iterate, Iterate, Iterate

Where’s the nearest Totem Pole?

Windsor Park at Virginia Water

Windsor Great Park at Virginia Water!

• One of two poles carved by Chief Mungo Martin of the Kwakiutl Indian Nation

• Given to Queen Elizabeth II to mark the centennial of the founding of British Columbia in 1858.

• The other one, a precise replica of this totem pole, is sited in Vancouver, British Columbia

Thanks!

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Email: dianem@activestate.com