http://xfruits.com/archief20/ en-us xFruits - http://www.xfruits.com Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:03:31 GMT Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT archives archives20 Dutch Archives 2.0 Twitter stream I came upon a blog post from The Shifted Librarian regarding her approach to Twitter for ALA. Also, in the past we have had a discussion on this network on the… ]]> Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:41:14 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897674&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ABlogPost%3A4080 Dutch Archives 2.0 Twitter stream I came upon a blog post from The Shifted Librarian regarding her approach to Twitter for ALA. Also, in the past we have had a discussion on this network on the usefulness of Twitter as a work tool.

At my archives we have been using Twitter for a while now, but it has been only recently that I started to really make some use out of it. In the past I only used Twitterfeed to tweet new blog posts and news items from our website, and occasionally I would interact with someone else.

Now I am actively tweeting myself as well through @bhicarchief and interact with many more people. I know that there are several of you out there, who have been active on Twitter for their archives or special collections for a while now, and I am curious about your best practices. Here is my approach:

* I try to have a healthy mix of automated tweets (blog posts, news items), self made tweets about relevant stuff, and interaction. So both input and output.

* I use HootSuite as a client, and have made columns for my own sent tweets, anyone else's mentions of my account, and the search results for my archives's name. I also have my home stream there, but of course I can't follow anyone else's tweets all the time.

* When other people mention me, I will interact with them, if appropriate.

* I sometimes answer questions by tweeting out to people (if they are active on Twitter, and not just have an account -- I need to know they will actually see my tweet), even when, for example, they asked the question by chat or email earlier -- just what is more convenient to either one of us at the time. It also makes the account seem more active to other people.

* I still need to update my profile information, so that it's more useful than it is now. Anyone else have any experience with useful keywords etcetera?

* I have a nice background picture (that I may change soon -- it's a winter scenery at my archives now).

* I welcome new followers personally.

* I follow anyone who follows me, unless their tweets are protected or unless their account is some sort of automated tweet gatherer or such.

* I block spammers, so they don't end up 'littering' my profile.

* I don't use automated tweets for every YouTube video that I made favourite, every new update of our database, every new story that gets uploaded on our website etcetera. Don't want to spam anyone with too many automated tweets.

* I don't use hash tags a lot, unless it's, for example, to get someone else's attention to a tweet, when they specifically mention to use a certain hash tag. (For example, for submitting links to photos or so.)

* I mainly link to resources that we have online, scanned -- so not just the finding aids.

For now, I am hoping to link more to photos (both from our collection as well as new photos, for example that I made of our archives in the snow, of events etcetera).

Since I've been a little bit more active, the amount of followers has grown rapidly, and more important: many of them are actual customers, so not just colleagues.

I am hoping for your reply! Also, if you know good resources/guides for using Twitter for (cultural) institutions, please share them here.]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2010-01-14:3762078:BlogPost:4080 Everyone's Blog Posts - Archives 2.0 ]]> Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:06:44 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897654&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ATopic%3A4071
Mike Evans]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2010-01-13:3762078:Topic:4071 Discussion Forum - Archives 2.0 draft of a report I was working on to Scribd. It's not quite what I originally hoped, but it may be of some interest.

From the introduction:

'This transformation will not be won by waiting. Perhaps the most valuable feature of Web 2.0 is its emphasis on participation and experimentation. You learn by doing. The knotty problems… ]]> Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:14:50 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897675&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ABlogPost%3A3891 draft of a report I was working on to Scribd. It's not quite what I originally hoped, but it may be of some interest.

From the introduction:

'This transformation will not be won by waiting. Perhaps the most valuable feature of Web 2.0 is its emphasis on participation and experimentation. You learn by doing. The knotty problems that seem to block our way might unravel as we become more familiar with the technology, as we work with users to develop new resources, as we try, fail and try again.

For these reasons this report does not attempt to provide a detailed summary of online technologies. Even if it were possible, it would be of little use. Nor does this report provide a Web 2.0 primer – such resources are already available online. What this report seeks to provide is a set of potential starting points – questions, technologies and possibilities – that might form the basis for further discussions and experiments.

What is required is an ongoing commitment to explore. We need to share ideas and resources and to seek answers together.'

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24402148/Emerging-technologies-for-the-provision-of-access-to-archives-issues-challenges-and-ideas]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-12-23:3762078:BlogPost:3891 Everyone's Blog Posts - Archives 2.0 blogged about the one given by Josh Greenberg, who talked about the blog project at the New Yowk Public Library (in the sidebar of my blog you'll find a translation button).

I was especially inspired by their vast strategy to get the conversation with their users going through the… ]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:01:20 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897655&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ATopic%3A3859 blogged about the one given by Josh Greenberg, who talked about the blog project at the New Yowk Public Library (in the sidebar of my blog you'll find a translation button).

I was especially inspired by their vast strategy to get the conversation with their users going through their blogs. They had wonderful results so far!

Many of our institutions have a blog and are blogging. Some may blog about news and events, others may blog transcripts from a diary, and others have found another strategy.

I am very curious to all your strategies. What's behind your blogs? What purposes do you have? Does your blog work for your archives?]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-12-16:3762078:Topic:3859 Discussion Forum - Archives 2.0 High School of Business Management in Geneva.

I will be specifically working on virtual access to digital and/or printed archives in a small UK region through the means of a public wiki-type tool. I've also included in my project the need to provide a subject guide that could give the public and res… ]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:10:13 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897656&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ATopic%3A3858 High School of Business Management in Geneva.

I will be specifically working on virtual access to digital and/or printed archives in a small UK region through the means of a public wiki-type tool. I've also included in my project the need to provide a subject guide that could give the public and researchers better access to the collections detained in the archive centre.

My main concerns are, for now, finding up-to-date literature (essentially from the UK, for starters) so I would be able to grasp the current situation in archives more fully. Since I'm from a swiss university, I'm not familiar with UK literature: specialized publications, books and/or current/past projects for virtual archives.

I'm also interested to know if, in your professional experiences, any attempt (successful or not) was made to provide a subject guide for users in archives instead of the usual standardized classification.

Any pointers or nudges in the right direction would be truly useful!

Cheers,

Marylene]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-12-16:3762078:Topic:3858 Discussion Forum - Archives 2.0 www.bhic.nl -- the chat button (for which we use the Google Talk chatback gadget) can be found on every page of our site.

The first results run over the time frame 25 September until 31 October 2009, and are available as a download here. The document is in Dutch, but the numbers will give you a good idea, along with some Google Transl… ]]> Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:50:53 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897676&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ABlogPost%3A3802 www.bhic.nl -- the chat button (for which we use the Google Talk chatback gadget) can be found on every page of our site.

The first results run over the time frame 25 September until 31 October 2009, and are available as a download here. The document is in Dutch, but the numbers will give you a good idea, along with some Google Translate 'magic' perhaps! ;-)

Amount of online hours and chats
We were online for 160 hours, from which 65 hours during office hours, and 95 hours outside office hours. During office hours we got 22 chats (34% usage), outside office hours we got 47 chats (49% usage).

When we have a look at specific parts of the day, then the Top 3 of best used time slots are the early evening on Monday until Friday, the early morning during weekends, and the late evening during weekends. So all best used slots are outside office hours. I can tell you're not surprised... hehe!

Amount and type of questions
The 69 chats made up for 79 questions (this is without chats from co-workers, colleagues elsewhere, people who click the button, but then keep silent, people who just wanted to see what would happen after clicking the button and such).

From the Top 4 questions, 25 questions were about asking help with genealogical research, 13 questions were about information about genealogical resources, 10 about errors during the use of our genealogical database, and 8 about help with our genealogical search engines.

So I guess it's fair to say that genealogists use the chat best, although the document for download also shows all of the other topics. Not very surprising: roughly 80% of our digital visitors are genealogists.

Effectiveness of help
People often are sceptic about the use of chat for archives: can our supposebly difficult research questions be answered through chat? Yes, they can, as shown by our first results.

46 Questions could be answered right away. Of the remanining questions, most people were invited to visit our reading room (9 questions), followed up via email (8 questions) or refered to another archives or institution (8 questions). Actually there was only 1 person who could not be helped at all.

People's comments
It's interesting to see the comments people made about the chat option. All comments that we got were very positive, to say the least. Chat is easy to use, and some people let us know that they would not have asked the same question via email or phone, especially not when they would have to wait for office hours.

Staff found chat useful and fun. For the first time ever, our website is really becoming a virtual reading room, with direct help from an archivist. Now the social aspect of the real reading room is also coming to life in the digital domain. People in chat not just asked a question, but also told stories about the past and such.

The pilot is continued, and for next year we will see whether we can make it part of our regular services.]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-12-06:3762078:BlogPost:3802 Everyone's Blog Posts - Archives 2.0 http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6077973/ ].
What are You´re favourites ? Please write the archival story, too. ]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:00:00 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897677&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ABlogPost%3A3799 http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6077973/ ].
What are You´re favourites ? Please write the archival story, too.]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-12-05:3762078:BlogPost:3799 Everyone's Blog Posts - Archives 2.0
As I understand, those students were eager to do papers and such on the topic, but of course those papers need to be written at an university level. Most research to… ]]> Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:38:59 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897657&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ATopic%3A3780
As I understand, those students were eager to do papers and such on the topic, but of course those papers need to be written at an university level. Most research topics that I could think of, were more of a 'lower' level.]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-11-26:3762078:Topic:3780 Discussion Forum - Archives 2.0
Wanted to let you know about a fun project we are launching at Calisphere, the University of California's public website of primary sources and archival materials.

Starting December 1, for a week we will be quoting portions of the letters of renowned California naturalist, explorer, writer, and conservationist John Muir (1838-1914) on our Twitter and… ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:32:21 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897678&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ABlogPost%3A3760
Wanted to let you know about a fun project we are launching at Calisphere, the University of California's public website of primary sources and archival materials.

Starting December 1, for a week we will be quoting portions of the letters of renowned California naturalist, explorer, writer, and conservationist John Muir (1838-1914) on our Twitter and Facebook accounts. Each update/tweet will contain a segment of Muir’s compelling prose and a link to the original document and transcript.

With this project we are aiming to engage students, educators, and the public with the recent online publication of more than 6,500 of Muir's letters—a joint achievement of The Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley and the University of the Pacific Library.

I hope you'll consider following or becoming a fan, and please let me know what you think! I welcome your feedback and your ideas on using these tools to engage users. Is anyone working on anything similar?

-Sherri

Where it's at:
www.twitter.com/calisphere
www.facebook.com/calisphere]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-11-23:3762078:BlogPost:3760 Everyone's Blog Posts - Archives 2.0 Is our profession dangerous?
Look a special kind of people for an archival job?
Are these funnies questions?
What are Your suggestions about it?

Look also: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6056977/ (Germ.) ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:54:45 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897679&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ABlogPost%3A3759 Is our profession dangerous?
Look a special kind of people for an archival job?
Are these funnies questions?
What are Your suggestions about it?

Look also: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6056977/ (Germ.)]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-11-23:3762078:BlogPost:3759 Everyone's Blog Posts - Archives 2.0 Australian Screen Online - the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's screen culture website - has just been relaunched with some basic of web2.0 functionality including discussion groups etc. ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:27:49 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897680&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ABlogPost%3A3757 Australian Screen Online - the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's screen culture website - has just been relaunched with some basic of web2.0 functionality including discussion groups etc.]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-11-23:3762078:BlogPost:3757 Everyone's Blog Posts - Archives 2.0
Does anyway know any good waves for archivists, archives or our patrons? Does anyone know good examples of the usage of Wave, that may inspire us? Best practices?

Besides these questions I heard that at least one small department of one city administration somewhere in the Netherlands is using Google Wave for work purposes already... so before we know it, waves need to be arch… ]]> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:16:37 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897658&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ATopic%3A3754
Does anyway know any good waves for archivists, archives or our patrons? Does anyone know good examples of the usage of Wave, that may inspire us? Best practices?

Besides these questions I heard that at least one small department of one city administration somewhere in the Netherlands is using Google Wave for work purposes already... so before we know it, waves need to be archived.

I'd love to hear your ideas and thoughts on this!]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-11-22:3762078:Topic:3754 Discussion Forum - Archives 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/) and joined Flickr Commons (http://www.flickr.com/commons).

The site was created as part of our LSE: a history in pictures project and it features various highlights from our image collections, but in particular, we are trying to use the site to create a photographic history of the London School of Economic… ]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:17:33 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897681&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ABlogPost%3A3698 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/) and joined Flickr Commons (http://www.flickr.com/commons).

The site was created as part of our LSE: a history in pictures project and it features various highlights from our image collections, but in particular, we are trying to use the site to create a photographic history of the London School of Economics. The last few years have seen an increasing interest in the history of the School both internally, from the LSE community, and externally, for example from family historians and media researchers. Our 'history in pictures', funded by LSE alumni, brings together historic images of LSE - its people, places and events - from a number of different collections and makes them available online in an easily searchable and browsable format. We currently have over 500 LSE photos on the site, and are aiming to add at least another 500 before the end of April 2010.

The site went live at the end of last week. Flickr users have already notched up over 45,000 hits, and have started adding notes, comments and tags to the images. But as well as making the photographs available to a wider audience, we're also hoping that LSE staff, students and alumni will use the interactive facilities of Flickr to share memories and experiences relating to the images on display, and thus actively contribute to the information contained in the School’s ‘official’ archives. In particular we are looking to add to the non-official history of LSE. We formally launched the site within LSE earlier this week, and we'll be actively promoting it to the School community over the next few months, so it will be interesting to see what sort of a reaction we get. There'll be further updates over the coming months.

There is more information and background over on our blog Out of the Box.

We'd be interested in any comments as we are looking to develop the site and the project as we go along.]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-11-10:3762078:BlogPost:3698 Everyone's Blog Posts - Archives 2.0 ]]> Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:12:54 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897682&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ABlogPost%3A3545
The fact that Colonel Dudarev provided Suprun with access to the archives of the Information Center of the Interior Ministry Directorate —archives that were essential to his research — is interpreted by investigators as “abuse of authority by an official.” ......"

For further information:
http://chtodelat.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/stop-the-criminal-prosecution-of-arkhangelsk-historians-and-archivists/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/15/russia-gulag-historian-arrested

I would be appreciate, if You sign the petition, which is mentioned and described on the chtodelat-Blog (Link see above). Link to the petition: http://www.zaprava.ru/content/view/2034/9/#josc4365.

Please spread this "news" on Your own blogs or via twitter. Write Your archivists association to follow the example of Marianne Birthler, head of the German "Stasi-archives", who has written an open letter to the Russian president. You can see this letter here: http://www.bstu.bund.de/cln_012/nn_715182/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Pressemitteilungen-2009/2009-10-12__stalinismus__forscher.html__nnn=true]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-10-29:3762078:BlogPost:3545 Everyone's Blog Posts - Archives 2.0
We are interested in receiving applications from across the heritage and information disciplines and beyond. Please note very short deadline for applications. Further details are available from… ]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:36:21 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897683&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ABlogPost%3A3472
We are interested in receiving applications from across the heritage and information disciplines and beyond. Please note very short deadline for applications. Further details are available from
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/icarus/cda-2009/

If anyone has any further questions please get in touch.

Many thanks, Andrew (a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk)

'We think, not I think' Harnessing collaborative creativity to archival practice; implications of user participation for archival theory and practice.

Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded PhD studentship Collaborative Doctoral Award to be held jointly by UCL and The National Archives (TNA), 2010-2013

A three year full-time collaborative doctoral award has been awarded by the AHRC to UCL and TNA for a research student to explore the impact on archival theory and practice of embracing greater user participation in professional practice. The research will be jointly supervised by Drs Andrew Flinn and Elizabeth Shepherd, at the Department of Information Studies (DIS), UCL, and Dr Louise Craven at TNA.

This is a unique opportunity for a graduate (1st or good 2.1) in any discipline, with an MA and/or relevant work experience in archives and records management. The student will benefit from exposure to current archives and records practice and evolving trends and challenges. They will develop working relationships within TNA (the largest employer of archivists in the UK, which has a broad range of expertise relevant to this project) and undertake doctoral research in a key academic and professional topic at a top UK research university. The successful applicant will be positioned for a fast track professional career or an academic career in an emerging international discipline.

The aim of this collaborative project is to investigate the potential and limits of collaborative creativity and user participation in the archive sector and beyond, explore the reality behind claims made regarding experts and crowds, and suggest what might be the impacts of such developments on professional thinking, training, and practice in
the 21st century. The project will explore these issues in a UK context but it will also give priority to examining developments elsewhere, and consequently have a relevance and applicability worldwide. The collaboration with the TNA will allow the doctorate student to observe these developments at first hand, at an institution which is a
world-leader in trialling these approaches. The research is intended to inform professional debate and influence changes to archival practice in the UK and more widely.

Applicants must be UK or EU nationals. The award covers standard tuition fees, and (for UK nationals only) a maintenance grant of around £16,500 pa, including contributions from TNA. It is available for three years
from January 2010. Applicants must apply directly to UCL in the first instance but for further details on the AHRC’s collaborative doctoral award scheme, including eligibility requirements and funding arrangements please consult
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/CollaborativeDoctoralAwards.aspx

If you are interested in applying, please submit your application by email (letter of application, CV and names of two referees (at least one academic)) to Dr Flinn (a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk) at DIS, before the closing date of 5 November 2009, making clear that you are applying for the Collaborative Doctoral Award. Applications received after this date will
not be considered. Your application should explain why you are interested in and qualified to research in this subject, what benefits you see in the collaborative nature of the award, and how you would plan the research methodology. Interviews will be held at UCL in the week beginning 16 November 2009.


For further information and more details about the proposed research please contact Dr Andrew Flinn, senior lecturer in archives and records management, a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk, Department of Information Studies, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT


--
Dr Andrew Flinn,
Lead researcher, AHRC 'Community Archives and Identities: documenting
and sustaining community heritage' project
Lecturer & programme director, MA in Archives and Records Management (ARM)
and MA in Records and Archives Management International (RAMI)
Department of Information Studies (formerly School of Library, Archive
and Information Studies)
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

direct tel: 020 7679 2479 (non-UK: +44 20 7679 2479)
Extension (internal UCL only): 32479
fax: +020 7383 0557
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/andrew-flinn/
Project website:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/icarus/community-archives/
Project blog: http://archivesandidentities.com/]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-10-27:3762078:BlogPost:3472 Everyone's Blog Posts - Archives 2.0 Do visitors react on our clothing? Is it really important for our job to be business-like dressed? ]]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:34:00 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897659&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ATopic%3A3113 Do visitors react on our clothing? Is it really important for our job to be business-like dressed?]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-09-29:3762078:Topic:3113 Discussion Forum - Archives 2.0
All of which begs the question, what are the most effective web 2.0 technologies for archives? Of the various tools available, which is likely to have the most impact for our organ… ]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:12:48 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897660&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ATopic%3A2951
All of which begs the question, what are the most effective web 2.0 technologies for archives? Of the various tools available, which is likely to have the most impact for our organisation and our users? Given limited resources (particularly financial and staffing), what should we choose to work on first?

Or to put it another way, if you could pick just one web 2.0 application to support and promote your work in archives, which would it be and why?]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-09-16:3762078:Topic:2951 Discussion Forum - Archives 2.0 ]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:54:17 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897661&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ATopic%3A2921 Linda]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-09-15:3762078:Topic:2921 Discussion Forum - Archives 2.0 Adriane? If I summarize it (very strongly) in two points, she says that there are two problems: firstly, surpassing the gap between an archival authority and a user, because Archives 2.0 is more a state of mind than a technology: Archives 2.0 means treating users more as equals in information production. The second issue is how to combine traditional hierarchical archival description wi… ]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:52:37 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897662&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ATopic%3A2185 Adriane? If I summarize it (very strongly) in two points, she says that there are two problems: firstly, surpassing the gap between an archival authority and a user, because Archives 2.0 is more a state of mind than a technology: Archives 2.0 means treating users more as equals in information production. The second issue is how to combine traditional hierarchical archival description with user interaction - and whether they can be combined. I would like to know how you feel about this.]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-09-05:3762078:Topic:2185 Discussion Forum - Archives 2.0 ]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:28:35 GMT http://xfruits.com/archief20/?id=75935&clic=493897663&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchives20.ning.com%2Fxn%2Fdetail%2F3762078%3ATopic%3A2081
It's worth a look if you are a Museums Association member or can scrounge a copy of the magazine from a member. It will be available online in the Museum Practice Archive on the Museums Association website, but you have to subscribe.]]> tag:archives20.ning.com,2009-09-03:3762078:Topic:2081 Discussion Forum - Archives 2.0