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Community
The community of idBrooklyn is Brooklyn neighbors, people, schools, fauna, or special interest groups such as idBrooklyn community members who contribute to idLog. Brooklyn has diverse communities that offers unique sites for good Storytelling. It also has an interesting history around brown stone houses, historical landmarks, migration, and ethnic diversity. Images and movies generated in Brooklyn are excellent resources for Digital Archiving. Back to Top
One can tell a story without using a single word. It has been said that one picture is worth one thousand words. Earliest storytelling finds it way far beyond 10, 000 years ago. People left some marks in places like caves to express or remind themselves of the story they had in their minds. People even used beans, leaves, or sand to tell a story. How shall we tell a story of a hiking trail? We may take photographs along the trail, record the sounds, or videotape a deer looking right at the camera. When we come home, we will be doing Digital Archiving. Then we can arrange the photos, videos, and sounds in sequences, add music or voice over, or treat them like those we have seen in silent film. Back to Top
As much as a good practice of language is a sign of civilization, so is a good practice of digital media. Every bit and byte becomes a part of our expression as if we “speak” with them. They are passed among friends, posted on the web, or sent from one phone to another. They are on our laps and in our hands. They carry what we want them to carry. Digitally encoded photographs can be shared without losing their form. Media literacy is about learning the form so we can convey what we mean or what we sense. Media literacy serves good Storytelling. Back to Top
Before we arrange photos, videos, and sounds in a computer they have to be entered into the computer as digital objects. The digital objects become media resources we can work with to tell stories. Sometimes a digital photo carries information about where it was taken or what was the lens focal length, etc. Such information about media resources is called metadata. There are many standards for creating digital objects and metadata descriptions especially for digital archiving issues. Researchers also care how to preserve the look and feel of the media resources especially when they are transferred from one device to another. When it comes to describing content of the media resources, we can make our own content rules. We can agree upon a shared vocabulary that suits a particular Community. In the idBrooklyn site we use a concept vocabulary or “tags” such as “Brooklyn Bridge,” “Cadman Plaza,” or “Tillary Street”. Back to Top
Semantic Web is a part of the World Wide Web. Semantic Web facilitates meaningful exchange of web content. As the internet connects computers to make the Web it forms a huge documents storage space. Then we can use Web Addresses to know where to put and get documents. This is why a Web Address is known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and has rules to ensure each address is unique, for example http://www.idBrookyn.org.
While Web Addresses allow us to visit sites, syntax such as HTML lets us see things on those sites. Semantic Web uses both semantic technology and search engines to learn and to find things associated to what we mean. Semantic Web creates a web of connections and relations among things and their meanings.
If we can find the things associated with what we mean, the Semantic Web can be a good source for a Storytelling, by understanding what we mean and connecting to things we are talking about. The semantics of words and phrases can lead to photos, videos, and sounds on the web. To make many interesting connections we need fluency in Media Literacy and Digital Archiving. Back to Top
