Friday 30 October 2009

Looking for Advice from more Technical Folk than Me

At Sutherland Library we have a bunch of oral histories stored as .wav files.  We would like to publish them online. My first thought is a blog with enclosures for the audio files, which I can turn into a Podcast.

But I think we should engage with the whole idea of Open Government and Open Data and I'm not sure if this is the best way to go to meet those objectives.  So I'm calling on all developers, Gov 2.0 experts and mashup artists to give me some advice...

Keeping in mind that I'm not a developer, so I need point and click tools, how would you suggest we go about publishing these oral histories and related data?  If you were going to use this data in mashup how would you like it presented?

Where should I store the audio files online?  The Internet Archive, a Cloud service like Box.net or on our web host's virtual server?

Apart from the blog itself, is an RSS feed an appropriate format to make the data available for public consumption?  If not, how else could it be published?

How Can I turn the standard blog RSS feed into something more useful? For instance, each oral history discusses a number of locations in and around the Shire and it would be really good to geo-tag them. Should explore Yahoo! Pipes or Google Spreadsheets for different outputs?

Please, please, please lend me your expertise and lead me onto the righteous path by leaving a comment.

Tuesday 13 October 2009

Name that Presentation!

In the spirit of community participation and engagement I would like to crowdsource the title of my presentation.

Leave a comment and tell me what you think it should be called...




enjoy!