Technological Knowledge and Skills
PO #4, PV 1: Technological Knowledge and Skills: LI862 Digital Initiatives - Yamhill County Wine Wiki
Artifact: Digital Collection Wiki
Libraries are taking an active role in the broader shift towards digital information by creating digital collections, facilitating digital publishing, curating digital assets, fostering new forms of research and scholarship, and taking on other forward thinking initiatives. This course provided the opportunity for students to perform a hands-on project creating a collection of digital assets in a way that adds new value. We studied and implemented theory relating to information architecture, website usability, and website design. Using the free hosting software Wikispaces, I, along with group members David Sale and Stephanie Milbrodt, built a collection of pages describing Yamhill County Wineries in a way that added new value. The wiki organizes the wineries based on programmed tags which are searchable by users, such as Weekends, Open Saturdays, and Pinot Gris. This assignment provided experience in working as a group to understand the process of working as a group to understand the workflow, personnel issues, and software abilities in building a digital collection to present with a web based tool. We also learned project management skills in a team-based environment. This project gave us an understanding of the ways in which library digital initiatives fit into the contemporary web information ecosystem, basic concepts related to information architecture, metadata management, search, and web design, understanding of the software, as well as the personnel and workflows needed to mount common digital collections projects.
View this wiki by going to http://yamhillcountywine.wikispaces.com/
Artifact: Digital Collection Wiki
Libraries are taking an active role in the broader shift towards digital information by creating digital collections, facilitating digital publishing, curating digital assets, fostering new forms of research and scholarship, and taking on other forward thinking initiatives. This course provided the opportunity for students to perform a hands-on project creating a collection of digital assets in a way that adds new value. We studied and implemented theory relating to information architecture, website usability, and website design. Using the free hosting software Wikispaces, I, along with group members David Sale and Stephanie Milbrodt, built a collection of pages describing Yamhill County Wineries in a way that added new value. The wiki organizes the wineries based on programmed tags which are searchable by users, such as Weekends, Open Saturdays, and Pinot Gris. This assignment provided experience in working as a group to understand the process of working as a group to understand the workflow, personnel issues, and software abilities in building a digital collection to present with a web based tool. We also learned project management skills in a team-based environment. This project gave us an understanding of the ways in which library digital initiatives fit into the contemporary web information ecosystem, basic concepts related to information architecture, metadata management, search, and web design, understanding of the software, as well as the personnel and workflows needed to mount common digital collections projects.
View this wiki by going to http://yamhillcountywine.wikispaces.com/