Idea Drop is 4 day, free program & meeting space for the library, archives, museums folks + friends.
Join backyard conversation + lend an idea or skill to a hackfest + meet with Knight Foundation during office hours!
Enjoy good company at 1706 Garden St in Austin or online at libraryideas.org
Video Archive: https://vimeo.com/erandl
Attending SXSWedu? Join us for a meet-up that we are hosting!
If you are a library or museum professional, or if you would like to meet with the great people who work in libraries and museums, then join us for an interactive gathering. We are meeting to share ideas, forge connections, and consider possibilities for collaborations. Come with ideas related to trends and issues in libraries and museums that you would like to explore at breakout, unconference-style discussions, and be ready to network and connect with library and museum professionals.
See more at http://schedule.sxswedu.com/events/event_PP92289.
Knight Foundation is in Austin, Tex. for SXSW and we’re spreading the word about our latest Knight News Challenge on Libraries. Please join us for a happy hour at 6 p.m. at Container Bar to talk about the future of libraries and learn more about the Knight News Challenge on Libraries.
This year, the challenge is offering applicants a chance to win a share of $3 million for innovative projects that answer the question: How might libraries serve 21st century information needs? Along with food and drink, Knight staff will be present to answer questions. See you there!
For more information on the News Challenge and to apply please visit newschallenge.org by March 21. For more information take a look at the challenge brief and our latest blog post. Follow #newschallenge on Twitter for updates and please spread the word through your networks.
Join us at the Idea Drop House for a group viewing party of President Obama's Keynote talk.
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SXSW announced that President Barack Obama will be a Keynote Speaker. This event will take place on Friday, March 11 at 2:30pm at Dell Hall at The Long Center.
President Obama will be interviewed by Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune and the public will have the opportunity to be part of the conversation by sending in questions to the Tribune.
SXSW will conduct a ticket drawing starting at 10:00am CT today to determine which SXSW badgeholders will be admitted to this event. Interactive, Gold and Platinum Badgeholders will be eligible. No other credentials are eligible to enter the drawing. Randomly drawn winners will be notified the night of Thursday, March 10.
If you don't win or can't make it, this will be live-streamed on sxsw.com/live and simulcast throughout our Conference venues including Ballrooms D and EFG, and Room 18ABCD at the Austin Convention Center.
The announcement from SXSW is here.There’s a tech boom all around, but low-income areas like the Bronx, 13 miles north of Silicon Alley, rarely reap benefits. Young people drop out of education and employment systems and depend on “the hustle” to get by – creative, quick-turnaround ways to make money.
In the hustle mindset, there’s a wealth of creativity that can evolve into entrepreneurship with the right training. In the Bronx, TechTank is a youth tech education program and incubator that fosters local entrepreneurship and builds connections with near tech hubs.
Hear how disconnected Bronx youth became tech savvy entrepreneurs. Learn how to implement and measure programs that grow tech talent in low-income areas.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP55434
What does the future hold for copyright? Who are the gatekeepers and how does this power structure need to change to meet not only the needs of today’s digital age, but also the needs of future creativity and innovation? The Copyright & Creators: 2026 panel will speculate on where the innovations and advancements will be in 2026. Will our laws keep pace with the times or fall behind? And how will people continually interact with copyright? Moderated by a veteran reporter, panelists include a respected academic, a noted futurist and a fan fiction leader who will debate the trajectory of copyright law and where some of the future conversations and conflicts will be a decade from now.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP52932The Internet of Things not only enables new technological possibilities; it forces us to confront and upend assumptions we have about our devices, our property, and our persons.
Embedding networked computers in a wider range of objects--not just tablets and phones, but cars, wearables, medical devices, appliances, and homes--generates data about consumers, and gives control over how the devices work and the data they generate to people outside the consumer's home.
Our laws and behaviors are built around personal control of personal property. But now that those devices are "smart," they can have "loyalties" to people other than their owners, in their code and in the law.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP51494The “internet of things” is the expanding network of everyday objects—you can expect some 35 billion connected devices by 2020. The internet won’t be about your mobile phone or laptop anymore, it will be dominated by communication between devices, chips scattered over the natural world, and sensors embedded in our bodies. Should we fear or welcome the next internet? In my talk, based on my book “Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up”, I demonstrate the value of the IoT and the privacy concerns that arise. I explain how the perfect behavioral data creates new opportunities for public conversation, community building, and political power.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP48592
The Smithsonian's online Transcription Center has 5,200 digital volunteers worldwide - together, they’ve transcribed 110,000 pages of historic documents. An estimated 2-3M people worldwide contribute to citizen science projects. Someone somewhere is ready to share their time while connecting with your organization. How can you harness the power of crowds to improve your content, engage your community, & enrich their experience?
You’ll hear real details from four citizen science & historical crowdsourcing projects on how to rally your fans for meaningful contribution. Then learn why openly sharing resources & involving participants in design builds better spaces for engagement and research.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP48944Transform, Remix, Reuse!
Build on open cultural heritage collections & data with the Library Idea Drop House
In support and celebration of the potential of open data in cultural heritage, we are hosting a mini hackfest at the Idea Drop house.
This is a one day hackathon that will bring together coders, thinkers, activists and Austin area citizens to collaboratively explore and build new ideas around open data.
Some potential projects could be:
You can participate by yourself or in a team--the more the merrier!
Snacks and a variety of local brews and other drinks will be provided.
Jonathan Bailey of the session "Digital Content and the Legality of Web Scraping" joins us at the Library Idea Drop House. This event is live streamed.
Web scraping - the process of using bots to systematically lift content from a website - is either loved or hated. Startups love it because it’s a cheap and powerful way to gather data without the need for partnerships. Large companies use web scraping to gain competitive intelligence, but try to block others from doing the same. However, new legislation and high profile court cases have called into question the legality of web scraping.
He will discuss the origin of web scraping, the changing legal landscape, and the legal and technical best practices for protecting your website content.
Panelists from "Copyright and Creators: 2026" at #sxsw sit down with us to discuss their session.
What does the future hold for copyright? Who are the gatekeepers and how does this power structure need to change to meet not only the needs of today’s digital age, but also the needs of future creativity and innovation? The Copyright & Creators: 2026 panel will speculate on where the innovations and advancements will be in 2026. Will our laws keep pace with the times or fall behind? And how will people continually interact with copyright? Moderated by a veteran reporter, panelists include a respected academic, a noted futurist and a fan fiction leader who will debate the trajectory of copyright law and where some of the future conversations and conflicts will be a decade from now.
This presenters of this SXSW session will joning us at #IdeaDrop. View this on the live stream!
There’s a tech boom all around, but low-income areas like the Bronx, 13 miles north of Silicon Alley, rarely reap benefits. Young people drop out of education and employment systems and depend on “the hustle” to get by – creative, quick-turnaround ways to make money.
In the hustle mindset, there’s a wealth of creativity that can evolve into entrepreneurship with the right training. In the Bronx, TechTank is a youth tech education program and incubator that fosters local entrepreneurship and builds connections with near tech hubs.
Hear how disconnected Bronx youth became tech savvy entrepreneurs. Learn how to implement and measure programs that grow tech talent in low-income areas.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP55434
Many liken Ethiopia to East Germany before the wall came down. In this heavily surveilled country, there's no independent media and only 1% of the population has access to the internet. Journalists and bloggers are under constant threat of being detained and tortured, neighbors inform on neighbors and privacy is a concept as foreign as freedom of speech.
Ethiopian exile Endalk Chala is a reporter and graduate student here in the US but moonlights as a cryptographer, translating DIY surveillance self-defense technologies into his native language and personally coaching fellow bloggers on staying anonymous online and off, even under the threat of imprisonment and possibly death.
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP55641The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was defeated in Congress, but there have been backdoor efforts to revive it. One of the most surprising is happening at the International Trade Commission, an agency with powers to block importation of articles based on copyrights or patents.
The ITC recently decided Internet downloads are blockable “importation of articles.” The decision was widely criticized by tech companies and Internet advocates (but praised by the MPAA, who wants to use it for SOPA-style website blocking). It was recently struck down by a federal court, though the case is ongoing.
We’ll discuss how we got here and where this decision, and the ITC, are going.
The internet was founded on the principle that information should be open -- that everyone can build together. But we’ve come a long way in how the web looks and operates. Even as millions of websites and billions of people have come online, access to content is increasingly controlled by a handful of powerful corporations like Google, Facebook and Apple. These giants collect and silo our data, leading to questions about users’ privacy, consent and access.
Is the vision of an open web losing to big names? Can we defend the open web and save it for the future? Join me for a discussion about the web’s evolution and how we can put the power of the internet back into the hands of the people.
Web scraping - the process of using bots to systematically lift content from a website - is either loved or hated. Startups love it because it’s a cheap and powerful way to gather data without the need for partnerships. Large companies use web scraping to gain competitive intelligence, but try to block others from doing the same. However, new legislation and high profile court cases have called into question the legality of web scraping.
In this lively conversation, diverse panelists will discuss the origin of web scraping, the changing legal landscape, and the legal and technical best practices for protecting your website content.