Digital Ethnography

Translating physical places into digital interactive platforms. This is allowing to transcend time and space timelines, bringing stories from the past and liking them to the relevance of present places.

This is fascinating work. I'm looking forward to exploring this further - particularly the socially-engaged content that is described in the mission statement. It is amazing to think of the amount of data that is available to modern researchers. Kudos to USC and UCLA.

These projects are worth looking at, even if the documentation of the project is not always as extensive as we might want. (http://hennessy.iat.sfu.ca/making-culture-lab/collaborations/)

From the website: The Reciprocal Research Network (RRN) is a key component of the Museum of Anthropology's Renewal Project, "A Partnership of Peoples." In addition to the RRN, the Renewal Project comprises several complementary and innovative components, including a new Research Centre, Major Temporary Exhibition Gallery, and Community Suite. Together, they support collaborative, socially responsible, and interdisciplinary research across local, national, and international borders. The RRN is an online tool to facilitate reciprocal and collaborative research about cultural heritage from the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. The RRN enables communities, cultural institutions and researchers to work together. Members can build their own projects, collaborate on shared projects, upload files, hold discussions, research museum projects, and create social networks. For both communities and museums, the RRN is groundbreaking in facilitating communication and fostering lasting relationships between originating communities and institutions around the world.

There is not much access to the site without an account, so I requested one. I am interested in looking at how this site functions (where there seem to be numerous projects being created with the materials) in contrast with the Danish Folklore Nexus I posted earlier. Both resources might offer insight in to how new projects are being created with already collected materials.

I finally got an account set up and was able to look around the webpage. The images are worth looking at in the very least, although it looks like you have to join sections to see what is going on with projects. You can also see "user submitted" information in a specific heading to see what information users have contributed to the objects.

Zeega is a non-profit inventing new forms of interactive storytelling. Our HTML5 platform makes it easy to combine original content with photos, videos, text, audio, data feeds and maps via APIs from across the web.

Here are two projects that I think are zeega projects. (http://eephusleague.com/magazine/) and (http://www.editsquarterly.com/) Not totally sure though, since they seem to run really easily on both computers I have tried to use it on and on firefox as well.