Today I have a guest post about my research on UKOLN‘s Cultural Heritage Blog.
Archive for February, 2011
Guest Post on UKOLN Cultural Heritage Blog
Posted in PhD Research, tagged archives, collaboration, cultural heritage, motivation, participation, UKOLN, user generated content, users, Web 2.0 on 22 February 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Archives: describe ‘em, feel ‘em, see ‘em, hear ‘em… smell ‘em?
Posted in PhD Research, tagged access, archives, description, finding aids, researchers, sound, users, visualisation on 3 February 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’ve noticed before that in all the excitement over Web2.0 tools for user participation, archivists tend to make one big assumption: that textual descriptions of archives will remain the primary access channel to archival material in the electronic age. This is despite all the evidence (when we bother to look for it, which isn’t really [...]
PhD Day at The National Archives
Posted in PhD Research, tagged description, TNA, users on 3 February 2011 | 1 Comment »
A bit late with this, but I’ve just noticed that fellow National Archives / UCL PhD student Ann Fenech has posted her 3-minute presentation from the recent PhD day held at The National Archives on her blog, and its occurred to me that mine is probably quite a good short introduction to what I’m working [...]
