The DiscoverTotems ProjectScaling DIY Social Curation
@discovertotems / @pythondj
Diane Mueller, Cloud Evangelist [email protected]
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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