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This session by Dan W (http:\/\/www.iamdanw.com\/<\/a>) who is the resident Creative Technology Research Associate at Pervasive Data Studio<\/a>. Apologies for the bitty nature of these notes…<\/p>\n

Example George Melliere – using film to create ‘magic’ – early form of special effects.<\/p>\n

Example from Paper Camp – newspaper created from blog posts. Cheap to print because decline in newspaper printing means lots of spare capacity in printers.<\/p>\n

The Nature of Technology – what it is and how it evolves – by W. Brian Arthur. Argues that this happens through transferring technologies between domains (re-domaining) – applying things that are created in one domain to a different area.<\/p>\n

Most of the time when you write software and you find a problem – someone else has already solved it – about taking tech from one place and applying in another.<\/p>\n

Dan tells story of how Twitter grew out of hack week – company was actually originally setup to build list of all podcasts.<\/p>\n

In biology this repurposing happens as well – feathers probably developed to keep warm, not flying.<\/p>\n

Dan doesn’t know about libraries – so interested in finding things from libraries and applying to Internet. Libraries used to loaning stuff.<\/p>\n

Dan loves ‘tangible browsing experience’ in library – different to internet…<\/p>\n

Papercamp and Bookcamp – about bringing ‘internet people’ to look at paper\/books etc.<\/p>\n

Example of calcwars – book created from twitter stream of debate between Newton and Leibniz of who invented the calculus<\/p>\n

Libraries good at preservation – Internet rubbish at preservation – e.g. Geocities<\/p>\n

RFID – becoming more and more common in libraries – but for incredibly boring purposes! Dan thinks we can do more, better, possibly sillier, things with it. Example visualisation of RFID tags moving around space<\/p>\n

RFID tends to store identifiers – so need to dig into data stored against those identifiers in other systems<\/p>\n

Example of using Oyster Card to show percentage of tube stations visited.<\/p>\n

RFID radios – physical representation of an album!<\/p>\n

@GusAndPenny – cats with RFID tags – tweets when cats go through catflap<\/p>\n

Experiment in Holland of allowing people to classify books by putting on specific shelves – doesn’t work because of people – turns out they just put books back anywhere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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