ucla 01.2009
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open access, free culture, indigenous, digital archives,TRANSCRIPT
Does Information Really Want to be Free?debating access and openness in the digital landscape
1Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
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2Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
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“On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.”
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“I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By 'free' I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses... When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving.”
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Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
4Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
“Information wants to be free.”
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5Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
“The opposite of a free culture is a ‘permission culture’—a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.”
web 2.0social networking | remix culture
6Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
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image: clappstar @ flickr
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
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Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
permission culturelocked-up, chained-up, hoarded
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images by: thomas hawk & kenn wilson @ flickr
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
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image: kazee @ flickr
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
open access
freedom
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images by: daveybot @ flickr & mohan.m. @ flickr
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
Indigenous claimsalternatives to free/permission culture binary
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Tennant Creek
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
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Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
museum projectsold & new collections and exhibitions
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Behind the Scenesvirtual repatriation & knowledge management
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Warumungu system of accountability
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OPEN CLOSED
gender
country connection
ritual affiliations
family relations
death of kinancestral relations
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
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permission culture
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
image: twon @ flickr
20Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
21Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
22Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
23Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
24Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
25Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
an analoginformation
management system
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file cabinet at the Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre in Tennant Creek
photo by Kimberly ChristenFeb. 2006
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
Digital version of already-existing system
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Archive installed in the Warumungu community in Central Australia August 2007mukurtu website @ www.mukurtuarchive.org
online archive demo @ http://demo.mukurtuarchive.org
28Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
step 1: upload (single/batch)
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step 2: metadata + narratives30Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
step 3: sharing protocols
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set restrictions = determines access
32Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
step 4: added to archive
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extensive user profile system34
individual
relations
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
‘mini-archive’ =my family items
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pop-up warnings
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community-driven features
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image: nuno ibra @ flickr
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
Mukurtu
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‘a safe keeping place’
dilly bag: South Australian Museum collection
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alternativesbeyond free/permission culture
images by: mag3737 & darwin bell @ flickr
Kimberly Christen | [email protected] | Does Information Really Want to be Free? | UCLA | GSEIS Guest Lecture | 01.28. 2009
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thank you
www.kimberlychristen.com