[liberationtech] Library on marginalized peoples receives award

Sat May 29 07:41:31 PDT 2010

Virtual world library on historically
marginalized peoples in science receives "Top 10" award

Award Video: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lDgQx8OHn8&playnext_from=TL&videos=Mf0O67SJHoE

Linden Prize nominations:

http://secondlife.com/destinations/lindenprize

SLurl: slurl.com/secondlife/NASA%20CoLab/217/187/32

About the library:

Shannon Bohle (avatar Archivist
Llewellyn in Second Life) was selected as a 2010 Linden Prize Top 10
Finalist for her "Library and Archives at NASA CoLab in Second Life"
project.

According to Mark Kingdon (SL: M
Linden), CEO of Linden Lab, the prize  is designed to "formally
recognize the best-of-the-best" for having "greatly enhanced and
changed thousands of lives around the world." The winning project will be
announced on June 1.

The Neil A. Armstrong Library and
Archives at NASA CoLab is the first virtual world library or archive recognized
by the Library of Congress of the United States
  of America (ID #38392, MARC Code CaPsLAN).
Its mission is to house and make available records and other documentation
relating to NASA and NASA CoLab in SL. It also aims to be among the first and
best repositories to use virtual world technology for enhancing the
understanding of the history of science, technology and medicine by
incorporating both primary and secondary source materials relating specifically
to the history of aeronautics and astronautics as well as NASA’s intersections
of other fields such as medicine and engineering.

Major collections include the history of
women, African-Americans, and the working class in aeronautical and
astronautical history, as well as the histories of Apollo 11 and Space
Medicine. It covers major events and well-known figures, but the majority of
the displays are designed to appeal to women and minorities. The section on
female pilots—such as Amelia Earhart, Bessie Coleman (first African American
pilot), Helene Dutrieu (first woman to pilot a seaplane), Harriet Quimby (first
woman to fly across the English Channel), and female space pioneers like the
Mercury 13, Valentina Tereshkova, and Sally Ride—is exceptionally popular. So
too is the exhibit Women Working at NASA from 1943-1964, including the now
famous “human computers,” and Female Aviation Employees working for
organizations such as the U.S. Navy, Consolidated Aircraft, North American
Aviation, Inc., and Douglas Aircraft Company. Displays include digitized, born
digital, and born virtual materials. Some items were donated or created
specifically for this project, including: a photo of pilot Patty Wagstaff and a
replica of her flight suit, a photo of James D. Watson, Nobel Laureate and
co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, an original oral history interview with
a Tuskegee Airman. There are 3D replicas that play historic sound recordings
when touched such as Sputnik’s beeps and a replica of Neil Armstrong’s Apollo
11 space suit that says, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for
mankind.”

This interactive and educational project
meets requisite professional library, archival, and historical standards, and
achieved tangible, compelling results outside SL via the Library of Congress,
the Nobel Prize Foundation, CNN, Spaceport America. It received
praise by professional librarians/archivists at renowned institutions such as
Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and the Smithsonian. As the Director I composed the
leadership and mission statements, supervised and coordinated library
volunteers, provided library/archival reference and outreach expertise, applied
my knowledge of digital library standards for description, access, delivery and
preservation, as well provided virtual world versions of NASA educational
materials and historical publications, astronaut Twitter pages, and links to
NASA web sites and NASA TV. Additionally, I lectured, published, gave tours to
faculty members and visiting student groups from various institutions in the US and abroad,
hosted public SL events, and monitored and communicated qualitative and
quantitative feedback for the continued justification of the project. 

Related Information:

Nobel Foundation Videos and Images
(Nobel Prize.org)

* Dr. Mather:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN9uaAEXnbY&feature=channel

* Dr. Fert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uek8-TapUPs&playnext_from=TL&videos=keEfYkgmHjw

* Nobel Museum Special
Exhibition (Stockholm, Sweden):

http://www.facebook.com/Nobelprize.org?v=photos#!/photo.php?pid=3095934&id=81239734102

CNN Article:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-301402

National Defense University (Washington DC) Poster:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35047286@N02/4611517063/

Association of College and Research
Libraries (ACRL) Presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/01archivist/archives-in-second-life

Virtual Worlds Best Practices in
Education Featured Lecture:

http://www.slideshare.net/01archivist/best-practices-in-virtual-worlds-education-bpvwe-conference-talk

Machinima Best Practices: Preserving
Virtual Worlds Through Video Documentation Webinar:

http://www.learningtimes.net/innovation/bohle

Nature publication: "Studying the
Causes of Cancer: Creating the First 3d Model of p53 in a Synthetic
Immersive Environment":

http://blogs.nature.com/ub51cd45e/2010/03/12/studying-the-causes-of-cancer-creating-the-first-3d-model-of-p53-in-a-synthetic-immersive-environmen

Blog: http://spacecolab.blogspot.com/

Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35047286@N02/

For more information about NASA or
government in Second Life, 3d modeling, film making using avatars, or the
Archivists of Second Life group, please contact Archivist Llewellyn in Second
Life.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/attachments/20100529/9050ec12/attachment.html>