We help people who want to share information freely and legally

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• We help people who want to share information
  freely and legally
• Created in 1992 as sunsite.unc.edu
• In 1998 we became metalab.unc.edu
• In 2000 we became ibiblio.org
• We are now enjoying our 15th year of service to
  the Net.

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Radically Dedicated to Open Source, Open
Information and Open Access

• What I said in 1992
• Archives look for interesting collections
• we look for interesting people creating
  interesting collections in interesting ways.
• We collect the collectors and empower them.

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Radically Dedicated to Open Source, Open
Information and Open Access

• What I said in 2001
• By adopting not only the open-source tools, but
  also the open-source philosophy encouraging
  community interaction and contributor
  involvement, digital libraries can open new
  horizons to new communities as well as greatly
  improve traditional services.

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Three Laws

• Moores Law
• Metcalfes Law
• Reeds Law

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Five Big Ideas

• Wealth of Networks How Social Production
  Transforms Markets and Freedom
• By Yochai Benkler

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Five Big Ideas

• Democratizing Innovation
• By Eric Von Hippel

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Five Big Ideas

• Free Culture
• How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock
  Down Culture and Control Creativity
• by Lawrence Lessig

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Five Big Ideas

• The Long Tail
• Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of
  More
• by Chris Anderson

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Five Big Ideas

• Small is the new big
• By Seth Godin

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The Power of People

• Craigslist
• Wikipedia
• YouTube
• Red Hat Linux
• ibiblio.org

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ibiblio-metrics (2002 vs 2008)

• 800 Collections gt 2000 Collections
• 3 million ftpwww/day gt 15 million
• 1 terabyte of data gt 12 terabytes
• 4 radio stations gt 7 radio stations

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7 Archives in Action

• Folkstreams.net
• Roger McGuinn's Folk Den
• Documenting the American South
• Moonshine
• Degree Confluence
• eTree Music Sharing
• a bit about blogs