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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

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One of the main affordances of bilingual interpretation, of course, is that it provides access to content. The BERI study shows that access to content—the most obvious benefit of bilingual labels—is just the tip of the iceberg. BERI was a three-year collaborative effort I worked on with Cecilia Garibay, Nan Renner and Carlos Plaza.

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Cyberinfrastructure: What is it? What does it mean?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The director of the NSF has gone so far as to say that it will "usher in a technological age that dwarfs everything we have yet experienced in its sheer scope and power." The table of contents can be found here.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

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Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? And with NSF's support, some of the very first things we did were around people developing traveling exhibits. NSF seems to be perfectly happy with that.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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Funders and potential donors tend to look for particular benchmarks of professionalism (appropriately), and few are comfortable funding the most risky or content-specific institutions. The content is often seen as not being community-specific. To some extent, it's externally-driven. But that's only part of the story.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. One thing you''ll notice when you walk in is a ton of user-generated content. How are Workshop locations selected? The first one was in the Mission. Excelsior is now the walkable neighborhood space.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

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Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. Most of the incentives on sites for tagging are related to increased functionality (better organization of my sites on del.icio.us) or increased visibility (more searchable content). You look at this picture.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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Yes, it is possible for someone to reveal private information on a public comment board, but the number of community eyes on each board means that that kind of content can be seen publicly and addressed quickly. Inappropriate Content: Debatable. Let's look at #3--the promotion and featuring of content.