We were very lucky to have our second network workshop in one of the fantastic learning centre seminar rooms at the National Museum of Scotland – many thanks again to network member and NMS Head of Learning & Programmes Stephen Allen for hosting us.
The workshop kicked off with a set of stimulating lightning talks:
- Cultural exchanges: mapping texts, travellers, tales – Anna Groundwater, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
- Digital Collections at the National Library of Scotland – Ines Byrne and Fredric Saunderson, National Library of Scotland
- A year in wikimedia open knowledge & scotland’s museums – Sara Thomas, Wikimedian in residence, Museums Galleries Scotland
- Introducing Scran – Andrew Nicoll, Historic Environment Scotland
These were followed by an excellent keynote presentation from Dr Jenny Kidd, Cardiff University. Jenny’s talk, ‘Impacts and ethics in digital cultural heritage research’, contextualised the university sector’s priorities and tensions around impact, and drew on her own experiences of grappling with research impact to pose a number of provocative questions, including:
- how do we use statistical evidence and what stories do we tell?
- who is allowed to speak to a project’s impacts?
- are the beneficiaries of our work who we think they are?
These and other questions were discussed energetically during the break!
The second half of the workshop involved a discussion of MOOCs as a form of impact, with network co-ordinator Sian Bayne leading a conversation with Glyn Davis (Warhol MOOC) and Stephen Allen (NMS’ ‘Photography: A Victorian Sensation’ MOOC), who shared their perspectives and answered questions.
We wrapped up with a fast-paced ‘speed dating’ activity, where the following questions were discussed:
- What project or idea do you most want to develop?
- What are some interesting approaches you’ve used/seen for generating or analysing cultural heritage data?
- How would you describe your approach to demonstrating the impact of your work in the area of digital cultural heritage?
- Industry, policy, practice, public. What do you see as the challenges to knowledge exchange with one (or more) of these groups?
Notes from these discussions are available to view (PDF format).
Below is a summary of the day captured in tweet form – thank you to all who were tweeting! #dchrn
The second workshop of the Digital Cultural Heritage Reserach Network took place on 22 March 2016, at the National Museum of Scotland.
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tomorrow we’ll be welcoming @jenkidd and all network members to the 2nd #dchrn workshop at the National Museum of Scotland – hooray!
— Jen Ross (@jar) March 21, 2016
It’s #dchrn workshop day! and a beautiful day it is. See you all at NMS this afternoon! https://t.co/DVNwaGDIzA
— Jen Ross (@jar) March 22, 2016
Now back in Edinburgh for an afternoon with the Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network #dchrn pic.twitter.com/48ZAa05j9y
— Fred Saunderson (@fredsaunderson) March 22, 2016
Looking forward to an afternoon of thinking about digital cultural heritage, thanks to @jar @_clairesowton #DCHRN https://t.co/MOxgjD8eLq
— Anna Groundwater (@AGroundw) March 22, 2016
At NMS for the digital cultural heritage research network #dchrn pic.twitter.com/ORhj3b0k84
— Dr Sara Thomas (@lirazelf) March 22, 2016
This afternoon I'll be live tweeting from the Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network at @NtlMuseumsScot network permitting! #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
First up is Dr Anna Groundwater, talking “Cultural exchanges, mapping texts, travellers, trails” #dchrn pic.twitter.com/bUuYRvDO6G
— Dr Sara Thomas (@lirazelf) March 22, 2016
Looking forward to listening to @AGroundw @NtlMuseumsScot #DCHRN
— SCRAN (@Scranlife) March 22, 2016
Anna Groundwater talking about shared cultural and social spaces, networks and connectivity in the early 17th century #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@AGroundw digital allows us to reimagine cultural and social spaces of the past #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Anna Groundwater – discussing the ways digital can be used to represent, reimagine and recapture history #dchrn
— Claire Sowton (@_ClaireSowton) March 22, 2016
Hearing now about the digital collections of the @natlibscot, including 3.4 billion URLs & 5.2 million images #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@natlibscot have experimented with publishing CC0 images to Wikimedia. Now have CC BY / CC BY NC SA content licensing policy #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@natlibscot encouraging & promoting research is a defining characteristic of the library #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
First mention of IIIF at #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
What do researchers need from the national library of Scotland? Data mining? Geo-referencing? Interoperability? #dchrn
— Claire Sowton (@_ClaireSowton) March 22, 2016
At #dchrn @lirazelf is describing what Wikimedians-in-residence do. Summary: lots of 'smooshing'. pic.twitter.com/4Sx1VsbwBb
— Fred Saunderson (@fredsaunderson) March 22, 2016
Yay! @lirazelf, my favourite Wikimedian in residence speaking now 🙂 #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@lirazelf is Wikimedian in residence is Wikimedian in Residence at @NtlMuseumsScot #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@lirazelf has done 14 editathons and trained 216 new Wikimedia users #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@lirazelf editathons have created 238 new images, 73 new articles & 126 articles improved #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@lirazelf contact with Wikimedian in residence & engagement with project has made people more confident with using Wikimedia #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@lirazelf asking what do we need for an open ready museum? Skills, attitude & infrastructure. Attitude most important #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@lirazelf barriers to engagement with Wikimedia: loss of control, loss of revenue, lack of skills & resources #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
#DCHRN @lirazelf Thought that looked familiar, circa 1604 © @NtlMuseumsScot https://t.co/bnq8xfCN2m pic.twitter.com/7WeBUJCTxc
— SCRAN (@Scranlife) March 22, 2016
Skills, attitudes and infrastructure needed for successful digital cultural heritage projects @lirazelf #dchrn
— Claire Sowton (@_ClaireSowton) March 22, 2016
Speaking at the Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network. #dchrn @NtlMuseumsScot pic.twitter.com/43w0r2lw7A
— SCRAN (@Scranlife) March 22, 2016
Now hearing about @Scranlife distributed national image collection #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@Scranlife create educational resources to go alongside images. #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@Scranlife available in 445 libraries across Scotland. #dchrn
— Dr Sara Thomas (@lirazelf) March 22, 2016
Speaker comparing @Scranlife resources to Wikipedia "but we were there first". #dchrn < Yes but Wikipedia is open licensed….
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
@squeejay anytime #DCHRN Having just turned 20, we've often been misunderstood in our adolescence https://t.co/6NOeLH41Mc
— SCRAN (@Scranlife) March 22, 2016
.@Scranlife have an e-commerce and licensing platform for revenue generation which is "very comforting" for many of their partners #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Amazing and diverse Scran images #DCHRN @HistEnvScot pic.twitter.com/C7YMUCezhp
— Claire Sowton (@_ClaireSowton) March 22, 2016
Sorry to be missing this but following tweets and looking forward to hearing about it from @LornaMCampbell #dchrn https://t.co/dGMphN4YNc
— Nicola Osborne (@suchprettyeyes) March 22, 2016
.@wikimediauk wikimedians in residence got double representation today at #DCHRN – both @natlibscot & @MuseumsGalScot 🙂
— Dr Sara Thomas (@lirazelf) March 22, 2016
Now up is @jenkidd, who’s working with a huge list of folk… including Buckfast Abbey. Colour me intrigued. #dchrn pic.twitter.com/DH4jAEp3V3
— Dr Sara Thomas (@lirazelf) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd now keynoting on "Impacts & Ethics in Digital Cultural Heritage Research" #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd Museums in the New Mediascape https://t.co/nySSeNw4Ne Contact Jen for further info #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Just realised I've read parts of several of Jenny Kidd's books…excited for the keynote #dchrn
— Hannah Brown (@heritageNinja) March 22, 2016
At #dchrn about to listen @jenkidd talking about impact and ethics in digital cultural heritage
— Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja (@MaribelHU) March 22, 2016
Themes around digital museum ethics @jenkidd #DCHRN pic.twitter.com/61jjUbiB8K
— Claire Sowton (@_ClaireSowton) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd promising a raw manifestation of the internal tussling she's doing. #dchrn < I say!
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd asking how we can assess the impact of our research, why the turmoil over ethics & impact? #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
@jenkidd helping contextualise the university sector’s priorities and tensions around impact. #dchrn
— Jen Ross (@jar) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd quoting Dawn Mannay on ethics being "the questions we did not want to ask" #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd talking about digitality raises huge ethical questions #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
#dchrn @jenkidd exploring questions around digital museum ethics… power, voice, ownership, commemoration… pic.twitter.com/I1E2yiLths
— Hannah Brown (@heritageNinja) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd #dchrn pic.twitter.com/pNLlysavIv
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd talking about the Challenging History Network https://t.co/MSFgBnGpFL #dchrn < This looks amazing.
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd Challenging History Network covers challenging topics inc. racism, homophobia, transphobia, anti semitism, the Hollocaust #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd has "been told" she needs to think about impact #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd has used 'digitality' at least twice. A word I rarely encounter..! #dchrn https://t.co/GvDQTWdu48
— Fred Saunderson (@fredsaunderson) March 22, 2016
Ooo. @jenkidd involved with this project, which will def interest some folk I know…#dchrn https://t.co/J3ZphzvNM1
— Dr Sara Thomas (@lirazelf) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd quoting ESRC definition of research impact https://t.co/wU5w32jc2s #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
really interesting reflections on the intersection between research impact and research ethics from @jenkidd #DCHRN
— Jen Ross (@jar) March 22, 2016
Talking about IMPACT i.e. did it make a difference? #dchrn
— Hannah Brown (@heritageNinja) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd is interested, inter alia, in the impact of digital on 'openness' and 'closedness' #dchrn Me too! pic.twitter.com/xiLNEktDUR
— Fred Saunderson (@fredsaunderson) March 22, 2016
@jenkidd intersections between ethics and impact #dchrn pic.twitter.com/cDPLezi2GU
— Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja (@MaribelHU) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd how can we legitimately talk about impact & ethics in digital cultiural heritage research? We could tell multiple stories. #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd talking about the methodology she uses in her own research. She is a product of her own research environment #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd's Methods inc. social media analysis, discourse analysis, interviews, focus group, participant observations, surveys #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd Methods cont. content surveys, future tech workshops, visual methods & performance, #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd Methods cont. creation of images & narratives in public spaces #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
@jenkidd just used the word 'imagineer'. My new favourite word #dchrn
— Hannah Brown (@heritageNinja) March 22, 2016
@jenkidd listing the whole range of methods she used in museum studies research #dchrn pic.twitter.com/AuxRLCK4ZH
— Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja (@MaribelHU) March 22, 2016
information about @jenkidd ’s ‘with new eyes I see’ project: https://t.co/I6HsrFBxi0 #DCHRN
— Jen Ross (@jar) March 22, 2016
Case study exploring how gaming architecture might be used by heritage organisations @jenkidd #DCHRN
— Claire Sowton (@_ClaireSowton) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd project focused on bringing to life story of a botanist who went to war in 1916 #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd participants were given a map & a multimedia device to navigate around the city to access documentary fragments #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd participants were asked to empathise and consider the fragments and found objects #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Really fascinating, exploring the sociability of an experience #dchrn https://t.co/tpn6yiG03F
— Hannah Brown (@heritageNinja) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd project traverssed tricky ethical terrain in burring the line between fact & fiction, risk, and making people feel stuff #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Risk, fact/fiction, making people feel stuff – ethical dilemmas in the name of impact @jenkidd #DCHRN
— Claire Sowton (@_ClaireSowton) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd project team felt uncomfortable with fictionalising the story to fill in gaps in the narrative, authenticity is all #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd: object authenticity is seminal to integrity, role of museums #dchrn
— Fred Saunderson (@fredsaunderson) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd desire of project to trace a line form impact to output meant wedding to idea of experimenting with empathy #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
“in the name of impact, off we trotted” – @jenkidd discusses ambivalence and risk in experimental cultural heritage projects. #DCHRN
— Jen Ross (@jar) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd felt very squeamish about manipulating people and making them feel stuff. #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Ethics of experimentation with empathy and risk worried museums more than visitors. Didn't allow to be as playful as could be. #dchrn
— Hannah Brown (@heritageNinja) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd participants were much less concerned with these issues than project team, fictionality & risk were not a problem #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
… but participants *wanted* the risk & the liberation of museum stories. @jenkidd #DCHRN
— Jen Ross (@jar) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd participants embraced the narrative of absence, loss and forgetting, they did not want to feel safe. #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd project applied for more funding & were asked to articulate their impacts, but no one spoke same language of impact #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd everyone was very anxious about how to articulate and use the term "impact" #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd we're trying to unpack what we mean by impact, and even what we mean by research #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Does emotion – 'making people feel stuff' – count as 'impact'? @jenkid at #dchrn
— Sian Bayne (@sbayne) March 22, 2016
Research means different things to different organisations, as does impact – @jenkidd at #dchrn
— Fred Saunderson (@fredsaunderson) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd university understood impact of project simply in numerical terms and nothing else made sense to them. #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Just heard booking is open for my April @culture_public Making an Impact with your blog event: https://t.co/fHNBCrcEyu. Mboit to #dchrn folk
— Nicola Osborne (@suchprettyeyes) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd project wanted to do something for Welsh language speakers, university said no, do it in English #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd Discussions raised important questions about "what?" and "for whom?" #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd introducing the concept of subtlemobs https://t.co/idlqKP9QLu Explicitly performative & designed to make you feel #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd Relationship between impact & ethics needn't be negative, it can be creative. Ethics are contingent #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd's conclusion is that she needs to learn to "chill out about impact" #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Perhaps the most significant impact of all? #dchrn https://t.co/mpDF5f8Q2Q
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd asking whether feeling something is the same thing as understanding it? What is the relationship between the two? #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@jenkidd Asking what does it mean to die in video games? There's a lot of messiness around the ethics of this #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Breaking now for coffee, cakes & fruit. Mmmmmm. #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
How problematic is creating impact using empathy through digital cultural heritage @museum_cardiff? @jenkidd #DCHRN https://t.co/X4AhnllIBC
— Anna Groundwater (@AGroundw) March 22, 2016
@AGroundw this was a provocative element of the talk – if conversation at the break is evidence! @museum_cardiff @jenkidd #dchrn
— Jen Ross (@jar) March 22, 2016
.@sbayne introducing next session which will cover MOOCs and speed dating! #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Glyn Davis talking about warhol mooc and how he thinks about its impact more than a year on. #dchrn
— Jen Ross (@jar) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc Warhol MOOC started as a book, Warhol in Ten Takes, co-authored with the wonderful @gary_needham of Nottingham Trent #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc MOOC sought to talk about works by Warhol that people didn't know #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc "the MOOC resulted in a number of journal papers which made the university very happy" #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Ahh! @warholmooc showing my favourite portrait of Samuel Beckett by Louis le Brocquy #dchrn pic.twitter.com/dhvKPJZylV
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Glyn Davis talking about running Warhol MOOC- #copyright was one of the great challenges: how to safely display art for edu? #dchrn
— Fred Saunderson (@fredsaunderson) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc talking about uncovering a completely fictional storry about Warhol's intention to paint a portrait of Saumuel Beckett #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc exploring openness and licensing of images and cultural heritage resources is of critical importance. #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
@warholmooc talking about me, tweeting him, talking about me! #dchrn < and down the rabbit hole we go!
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Next up the @NtlMuseumsScot Victorian Photography MOOC https://t.co/UzCMQ6NRfp #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Soaking in all the different ways that cultural organisations utilise digital as a way to widen and engage audiences #dchrn @BlipparEDU
— Chantal Pinkham (@ChantalPinkham) March 22, 2016
.@NtlMuseumsScot failed to appreciate the effort involved in reusing exhibition content for their MOOCs #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@NtlMuseumsScot key objective of MOOCs was encouraging people to engage with museum's collections #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@NtlMuseumsScot the MOOC became a "thing" within the museum, which give the digitial learning team real purchase within the museum #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@NtlMuseumsScot publish once and reuse was a false manifesto, difficult to reuse content & ran into problems with the platform #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Benefit of MOOCs should be carefully monitored – likely to centre on eg. dissemination of research rather than footfall. #dchrn
— Dr Sara Thomas (@lirazelf) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc talking about moving feedback from MOOC participants that is gathered by Coursera at end of each course #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@NtlMuseumsScot talking about the difficulty of getting metrics out of GLOW in comparison to Coursera #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc had to pay thousands for the images used in the MOOC #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc on #copyright permissions- got discounts from galleries for edu use, but licensing 80-100 images cost thousands #dchrn
— Fred Saunderson (@fredsaunderson) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc – if I was doing this again, I would work with much older, our of copyright, material #dchrn
— Fred Saunderson (@fredsaunderson) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc much easier to work with much older artists whose works are out of copyright, or contemporary artists #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
.@warholmooc working with mid century artists with powerful estates is extremely difficult #dchrn
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 22, 2016
Event programme and regostration also available via this link #shamelessplug #dchrn https://t.co/To5TnHVf6v
— Jenny Kidd (@jenkidd) March 22, 2016
Excellent time presenting at #dchrn today @NtlMuseumsScot @EdinburghUni loads of interesting projects… Thanks for having me @jar
— Jenny Kidd (@jenkidd) March 22, 2016
Thank you for your brilliant contributions today @jenkidd – we hugely enjoyed & appreciated them! #dchrn @NtlMuseumsScot @EdinburghUni
— Jen Ross (@jar) March 22, 2016
Used a Pink Floyd quote in my #dchrn presentation yesterday and have earwormed myself. dammit!
— Dr Sara Thomas (@lirazelf) March 23, 2016
Excellent keynote by @jenkidd at yesterday's #DCHRN. Now I really want to go to the Challenging Histories Conference https://t.co/G8Z3AGcmf7
— Lorna M. Campbell (@LornaMCampbell) March 23, 2016