interface lightening talk
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Crowds & Communities: Promoting Collaborative Creativity in Archives
Alexandra Eveleigh Department of Information Studies University College London [email protected] @ammeveleigh
Alchemist Archivist
Carrier bag (all archives arrive in supermarket carrier bags)
Pencil n.b. NOT a pen
Sensible shoes
Grey skirt
Cardigan
(Yes, this took me ages)
If male, add beard and substitute trousers plus socks & sandals.!
String of pearls Bun (optional)
Catalogue
Dust
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/2921672870/
Documents!
Photograph!
Miserable Archivist L Happy Archivist J
The way we create documents has changed…
and so must the purposes & functions of the archive.
Écrire à travers le temps http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernanc/3840526505/
Tagging, Commenting, Wikis…
Look, it’s even dated!!
User Contributed Descriptive Metadata http://www.flickr.com/photos/zigazou76/4297491287/
Username!
Indexing, Transcribing…
Crowdsourcing http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hatm/3766078045/
Mashups…
User Creativity
Participants
Professionals Users
The Participatory
Archive
Networks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjcockell/4405616339/
Authority!Control!
Cohesive communities?!
Diversity!
Crowds!
Disintermediation!
The Archival Commons!