Youtube 'down the tube'

Folks
Before the June holidays Ground Control Oinea informed me that it wasn't readily apparent that I had uploaded anything on the Youtube Discovery exercise. I did believe I alluded to it in my Post on Digital Document Deposit D3 soon after embarking on the YT exercise in class. At that time  I was trying to remain buoyant on this discovery journey because I was still reeling from shock to find that in the upload process I had just gone along with instructions and opened a gmail account so as to post the video (me showing how to use the Binding machine), and as a result of this I was then prohibited on that PC and my own from downloading and viewing any of my usual emails on my Gmail account which I have used for years. First the panic - then secondly rechannelling of mind to deal with both issues arising out of this experience. Issue 1.  How do I prevent my email account from taking the backseat to a Youtube account which I will probably never view again, and issue 2, how do I account to the unit curriculum that I have engaged in awareness enough regarding the usefulness of Youtube in a Library Setting, and therefore have satisified the unit outline requirements?
Well after spending holiday time recovering from the associated PTS involved and also having tried to source help on this issue on a Group Public Forum link on Google (who own Gmail) with little feedback, I've decided my next step is to take an appointment with my fellow student Scottie next Monday. Scotty informs me that he feels that these 'gmail' accounts can be merged and I do not have to have two separate accounts with the Youtube gmail taking precedence over the more Yoosfull email account.
So that's it folks - my experience on Youtube - I do hope to return after retrieval of the video and provide the link. I did in fact get a congratulatory email from the Youtube committee on uploading my first video with  but so far I have not been able to view it with the link code I was given yet alone provide the link to my follow students. So first things first!
What I have found in some researching and discovery exercise though, is this: 'the state government media policy requires that any video created and uploaded within government bodies should be captioned, so as to avoid 'discrimination' against the hearing impaired'.
Here is the link to this policy: http://www.communications.tas.gov.au/toolkit/publishing_print_multimedia_and_web/filmvideo_multimedia/captioning_-_how_to.
So folks I need to take a few more Discovery journeys before I am willing to show the globe that I can create and upload a video and overcome the problems that might arise.
Like is it the chicken before the egg, or just a leg up.
Cheers
JoBlogs

Flickr Resurgence

Since my last post's comments on Flickr I happened to be doing a little research on NLA to get a members card for the online databases, and I became sidetracked (as you do), reading about Creative Commons and digital copyright issues. Then all of a sudden I was off on yet another journey (there's a lot of places to go on these space discovery trips) as I came across this interesting article which I feel has elevated my thinking on how this online tool Flickr can be useful for libraries  http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27.
I had commented previously that Photos are collections and to that end as a professing Cybrarian I can appreciate that people interested in specific subjects (eg Australian Native Orchids) could find Flickr a useful means of sharing and storing their collections with likeminded people. But then it doesn't necessarily have to be associated with a library, to achieve this success.
In any case I was unaware until I read the above page that NLA's Picture Australia site is in fact a big collaboration with Yahoo's Flickr - and how - what a great project this is - especially now that one is able to contribute to this project without having to go and get photos developed and then post off like as in the good old days.
Anyway read the article if you will - you might get a clearer picture that way!
Cheers
JoBlogs

FLICKR in a FLICKR - Post 2 - The Resurrection

Hi Folks

Here is the post on the Resurrection of my First Flickr Upload (FFU), to which I alluded in my first posting on the Flickr experience detailed for our course.
I promised that I would make a journey and find the photos I uploaded.
Well I've been there and here is the link http://www.flickr.com/photos/yesguv007/archives .

When you get there you will get this message

'Van Diemonium Acts doesn't have anything available to you'.

And the answer to this is - I ticked the 'do not share' box. (I must have been feeling very private).

However while I was signed into my account I was able to send the photos to the group"'Extend....Information Literacy.," so if you are keen to see my FFUs you will find them in this group account.

The photos are an example of some cataloguing I am involved in, and with the older documents, I am also involved in preservation and cleaning.

So now what do I think of the FLICKR experience - discovery exercise? Well, photos are 'collections' and I suppose a Cybrarian is supposed to be interested in 'collections'. Also if a picture paints a thousand words then that is one huge library but most of all a great network for photographers and a great platform for people to expose (pardon the pun) their work/artform.

I particularly like too the idea of sharing photos with particular interest groups  such as Australian Native Orchids and so it's a journey that really opens one up to the extent and breadth of 'social networking' apps.

I'm not sure when I will retrace this particular journey again. I might take a few different routes just for a change of scenery.

Cheers

JoBlogs

On Delicious

Hi Fellow Students again

Well I've been there and discovered there are Cheesecakes on the moon.
I signed up for this trip only after deciding I needed to so I could say I have been through all the Discovery exercises in our e-journeys part of the course - increase my flying time. Seriously I went through the navigational motions of creating a Delicious account and the first bookmark I imported into my saved URLs list is this http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rip_delicious_you_were_so_beautiful_to_me.php.
I found the article in my Google Reader only yesterday after subscribing to RSS feeds from the readwritewebjunction. I like to know how these things get started and what expectation it is reasonable to have of a new (to me) technology. It was timely looking at my feeds before I got to the Delicious tasks, so reader, I do recommend you to look at this article to get a more universal view of how Delicious itself travelled as a Web2.0 technology.
On a subjective note I didn't find Delicious intuitive to use at first. Not sure if this means I have no intuition or if the site itself is a bit clumsy. But the journey was worth it and I'm being positive that more journeys will see it get, in my opinion, more user friendly. I do have some premonition that with  perserverance this application could be useful.
I like the idea of organising my own 'filing cabinet' or URLs under Bundles and Tags, and I can agree with the thought
"Many users find that the real power of Delicious is in the social network aspect, which allows you to see how other users have tagged similar links and also discover other websites that may be of interest to you. You can think of it as peering into another user's filing cabinet, but with this powerful bookmarking tool each user's filing cabinet helps to build an expansive knowledge network." http://elearning.sharedservices.tas.edu.au/webct/ContentPageServerServlet/003flickr.html, viewed 4th May, 2012.
So all my filing cabinet has in it at the moment is as I said is the link to article from readwriteweb, and this is under the 'tag' Creative Pursuits. Another URL link that popped in under this tag (I've got two URLs in my list now and I might add I did not hit the share button, so it's an alien as far as I'm concerned) is one on Cheesecakes. I don't know how it got there and I will be investigating.
The mind boggles. Do you think if we looked into everyone's filing cabinest we would find bits of stale (or fresh) cheesecakes? Sounds like the food hoarding days at boarding school.
Well have a Delicious time everyone.
I'm going to make my Creative Pursuits tag a 'bundle' and then organise the bundle into different tags. I want the cheesecake to be put where it really belongs.
JoBlogs

Digital Document Deposit or D3?

I picked up the following information from the current issue of Incite-

"The Attorney General Nicola Roxon and Minister for the Arts Simon Crean have launched a public consultation paper of the proposed reforms to the Copyright Act, designed to ensure that digital documents are kept by the National Library of Australia for future generations...
The consultation paper Extending Legal Deposit and instructions for providing submissions are available online at www.ag.gov.au/Consultationsreformsandreviews/Pages/Extending-Legal-Deposit.aspx. "
Incite, Vol 32 Issue 5, p26 May 2012

I don't expect everyone likes to read papers, but I'm curious about looking at the Glossary, to see the definition of 'document' ! This is just in case I get a "hand it over and nobody gets hurt" letter (email) from NLA to say they want a D3 copy of my first YouTube video (Polytech class this week) - like, I felt like a dinosaur when I saw myself,and figure they might deem me 'cultural heritage' like the dinosaur in the desert in SA.

JoBlogs

PS I have looked at the Government document now. There is no glossary however under DEFINITIONS it proposed that it is retaining the definition of 'Library Material' in Section 201, but it will be adapted to the realities of the digital environment. However the material will not include sound recordings, film, games and material which is primarily audiovisual. PHEW! I'm safe.

Readers - the URL above is worth looking at - it is not tooo difficult a paper to read.

The photo taken of Dave's Exhibition - Post Previous

Well blow me down, one only has to use the insert photo icon.
Cheers from Jo Blogs
Next post hopefully will be the Resurrection post as previously discussed.

Practice on FLICKR - Discovery Exercise One - B4 the upcoming resurrection post

On my way to discovering where my photos were on my newly created account, I decided to take a general search of Flickr first - back to base one and blog about an interesting image. (Discovery Exercise One in our Polytech class)
Being an interested aunt I decided to blog about this image taken by my nephew and used to advertise his work http://www.flickr.com/photos/davewell/4943554206/.
My husband and myself were on the mainland (wow how very Tasmanian to say this) about the time Dave was supposedly having his exhibition and we rocked up to this lovely cafe type place to see it. We had only four hours to get to the ferry befor returning to Tas and without having contacted Dave. Unfortunately the exhibition was not up and I found out from Dave later that the cafe had double booked and so his images went up about two weeks later. Interestingly I took one of my own favourite photos at that time of my husband's hand holding this invite (see image linked) of Dave's outside the cafe with images of ourselves reflected in the window.  I think now I will explore all the tools on Flickr to see if I can link this photo to Dave's work. and I guess I will be able to title it, 'See Dave, we did go there!'
I do like Dave's photography work, some B & W, others in colour, however they depict mostly 'on the streets' candid images around Melbourne. Dave also runs a business in Melbourne called Melbourne by Foot, and takes walking tours of the backstreets of the city giving all the history that goes with it.
I should stop the words here and get on with the mechanics of further exploring FLICKRs navigational aids and opportunities so I can get someway to using it to my benefit and understanding how too I may be able to help a client.