InfrastructureForPersonalDigitalCollectionBuilding

A great service for a university to provides its people is infrastructure and services to let individuals create personal digital libraries and collections (see

Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections) that they can then share with others in a way that is built from the ground up and evolved quickly.

An important area to possibly provide services is in the infrastructure/intrastructre I have built up for ourselves and use deeply in my work. Making that available to others and training them to use these tools and then letting them go at it might do a lot to give us materials to share with the rest of the world. Pieces of that infrastructure include:

online storage
weblogs (faculty members have the potential to be important voices in the blogosphere -- to a great degree, IRL credentials give one big weight (e.g., economics professor Brad Delong)
Even though there are a lot of blogging services out there already, a Berkeley branded one might be useful if carried out well to reflect how we think as a community -- not easy -- but I think it can be done -- e.g., I have a personal space and a IU-related one -- it's good to have both spaces
wikis
image storage
social bookmarking system (like unalog)