{"id":14,"date":"2015-01-28T00:33:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/?p=14"},"modified":"2015-02-02T17:14:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:14:47","slug":"project-idea-vtartworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/2015\/01\/28\/project-idea-vtartworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Project idea: VTArtWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sponsor<\/strong>:<br \/>\nProf. Bob Leonard<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.performingarts.vt.edu\/faculty-staff\/view\/robert-leonard\">VT School of Performing Arts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project description<\/strong>: The Community Arts Network (CAN) was a website\u00a0focused on community-based arts that was highly active from 1999 to 2010, until it had to close down due to lack of funds. All of the material on the site &#8212; thousands of\u00a0news articles, essays, resources, forum discussions, etc. &#8212; was <a href=\"http:\/\/wayback.archive-it.org\/2077\/20100906194820\/http:\/\/www.communityarts.net\/apinews\/index.php\">archived<\/a>\u00a0but is not easily searched or discovered.\u00a0Prof. Bob Leonard, a VT professor and\u00a0one of the original\u00a0leaders of CAN, is looking to revive it\u00a0by creating a new online social hub\u00a0around the CAN archive, to be called VTArtWorks. The new hub\u00a0will provide social tools to allow community-based arts enthusiasts to connect, share news and events, and have discussions. Beyond this, it will investigate new, valuable, unobtrusive ways to integrate these new activities into the existing CAN archive; for example, exploring ways to surface\u00a0relevant documents from CAN to provide historical context to\u00a0a conversation about an upcoming local performance. The key challenge here is develop a technology that\u00a0enriches people&#8217;s social interactions around a common\u00a0interest (e.g. community-based arts) by making connections to a large\u00a0digital collection of potentially relevant supplementary materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project deliverables<\/strong>: An online social hub oriented around community-based arts that is tightly integrated with materials from the CAN archive, fostering new conversations about current events and issues but also allowing discovery of and connections to older, relevant discussions and ideas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Skills<\/strong>: Web development, digital libraries\/archives, online communities,\u00a0performing arts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsor: Prof. Bob Leonard VT School of Performing Arts Project description: The Community Arts Network (CAN) was a website\u00a0focused on community-based arts that was highly active from 1999 to 2010, until it had to close down due to lack of funds. All of the material on the site &#8212; thousands of\u00a0news articles, essays, resources, forum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4784\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}