{"id":6419,"date":"2013-06-26T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:48:31","slug":"explore-c-u-exploring-cuzine-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=6419","title":{"rendered":"Explore C-U explores CUZine, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ll admit it. From time to time, we search \u2018round the World Wide Web for references to C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> and related properties just to see where the information stream takes us. On occasion we’re genuinely surprised at what we find, such as this MICRO-FILM\/C-U Confidential<\/strong> mini-history<\/a> posted right before this year\u2019s Roger Ebert\u2019s Film Festival<\/strong>. Needless to say, we were flattered!<\/p>\n

Since then we\u2019ve met briefly with Sarah Christensen<\/strong>, who works for the College of Fine and Applied Arts<\/strong> at the University of Illinois<\/strong>, and Kara Brehm<\/strong>, at the time a graduate assistant at the UIUC University Library<\/strong>, about their project Explore C-U<\/strong><\/a>, designed to provide citizens and visitors a curated visual history of Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> through photographs, text, maps, and interactive media. In this succinct Smile Politely<\/span><\/strong> overview<\/a> written by Lauren Laws<\/strong>, Christensen stresses community members are invited to contribute resources and guidance in developing the \u201ctours\u201d guiding users \u2018round the C-U and outlying towns. Tours collect together subject-specific \u201cstories\u201d related by common themes; the current set includes \u201cRobert Allerton Park<\/strong>,\u201d \u201cUrbana Park District<\/strong>,\u201d \u201cRailways and Electric Transit<\/strong>,\u201d and \u201cPublic Art League<\/strong>,\u201d for instance. The MF\/CUZine<\/strong> story resides under \u201cC-U At the Movies!<\/strong>\u201d<\/a> with good company: Roger Ebert<\/strong>, “Ebertfest<\/strong>,” the silent film star Virginia Sale<\/strong>, the UI electrical engineering pioneer Joseph Tykociner<\/strong>, and the lost C-U featurette THE CITY BEYOND<\/strong>. In our humble estimation, it is an effort which seeks to find that happy medium between aggregated wikis and edited compilations a la<\/em> journals.<\/p>\n

In the coming weeks, CUBlog<\/strong> will be helping the Explore C-U folks shore up our page \u2013 to their credit, we found the summation of our history relatively accurate \u2013 as well as brainstorm and implement logical ways to fit local movie culture better in the tour\/story conceit. Casual browsing of the companion tours will reveal how heavily they rely on public monuments and structures for cohesion. With theaters the only easy-to-find movie presence in our communities, this provides a distinct challenge in the \u201cCUAtM!\u201d milieu.<\/p>\n

If you have questions or would like to contribute to the Explore C-U project, developed by the University Library and the Visual Resources Center<\/strong> at FAA, hit the \u201cAbout\u201d page at their Web site<\/a> or write Christensen at explorecu [at] Illinois [dot] edu<\/strong>. (Of course, they\u2019ve established Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and Twitter<\/strong><\/a> accounts.) If you wish to discuss how the Movie tour might be improved or expanded, feel free to write your humble editor at cuconfidential [at] gmail [dot] com<\/strong>. This could be an exciting companion to our efforts here at the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong> so we\u2019ll keep you abreast of any progress!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n


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How interesting a twist of fate will this be? It seems our work has value to the team behind Explore C-U, a new UI-based project intended to curate local history and art in an easily accessible and interactive manner through Web browser and cell phone. “Yes,” we say!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,114,25,23,31],"tags":[1702,1104,80,1105,1106,1069],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-u-confidential","category-educationclasses","category-happy-places","category-micro-film-du-c-u","category-preservation","category-the-old-school","tag-c-u-confidential","tag-explore-c-u","tag-micro-film","tag-sarah-christensen","tag-uiuc-college-of-fine-and-applied-arts","tag-uiuc-university-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}