It’s been a busy summer for me – lots of stimulating conferences and events. Here’s my (eclectic) roundup of highlights: No.1 spot has to go to the fabulous VeleHanden project, a collaborative digitisation and crowdsourcing project initiated by Amsterdam City Archives, with numerous archival partners from all over the Netherlands. I was lucky enough to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
Summer Summary
Posted in Conferences, PhD Research, tagged AERI, archives, collaboration, data analysis, funding, indexing, Interface, Netherlands, transcription, USA, user-centred design, users, VeleHanden on 21 August 2011 | 2 Comments »
Evaluating Engagement Online
Posted in Conferences, tagged collaboration, contributors, impact, JISC, measurement, metrics, OII, RSA, RunCoCo, statistics, Web 2.0 on 12 June 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Digital Impacts: How to Measure and Understand the Usage and Impact of Digital Content, Oxford Internet Institute/JISC, Oxford, 20th May 2011 (#oiiimpacts) Beyond Collections: Crowdsourcing for public engagement, RunCoCo Conference, Oxford, 26th May 2011 (#beyond2011) Professor Sherry Turkle, Alone Together RSA Lecture, RSA, London, 1st June 2011 (#rsaonline) I’m getting a bit behind with blog [...]
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 »
Today I have a guest post about my research on UKOLN‘s Cultural Heritage Blog.
Society of Archivists Conference 2010 – Day 2 (#soa10)
Posted in Conferences, tagged collaboration, digital archives, digital preservation, India, OAIS, participation, SoA, user generated content, volunteers on 7 September 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had a day at the Society of Archivists’ Conference 2010 in Manchester last Thursday; rather a mixed bag. I wasn’t there in time for the first couple of papers, but caught the main strand on digital preservation after the coffee break. It’s really good to see digital preservation issues get such a prominent billing [...]
Archival Education Research Institute (#aeri2010)
Posted in Conferences, PhD Research, tagged AERI, archives, collaboration, digital archives, oral culture, participation, research, TNA, USA, user generated content on 3 July 2010 | 1 Comment »
A write-up of the second Archival Education Research Institute which I attended at from 21st to 25th June. The scheduled programme (or program, I suppose!) was a mixture of plenary sessions on the subject of interdisciplinarity in archival research, methods and mentoring workshops, curriculum discussion sessions, and research papers given by both doctoral students and [...]
How many people does it take to make a crowd?
Posted in PhD Research, tagged archives, collaboration, crowds, crowdsourcing, participation on 14 June 2010 | 1 Comment »
The buzzword ‘crowdsourcing’ is beginning to make itself heard in archives circles. Yesterday (via @tondelooijer on Twitter) I came across this Dutch partnership project to index militia records [the website's in Dutch, but you can still spot the word 'crowdsourcing'!]; the Archivist of the United States has traced crowdsourcing back to Aristotle; and the ArchivesNext [...]
Many ‘C’s spell D-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y
Posted in PhD Research, tagged citation, collaboration, context, control, description, diversity, ugc, user generated content on 27 April 2010 | 1 Comment »
The National Archives and The Royal Historical Society Gerald Aylmer Seminar, 21st April 2010 There was no doubting an enthusiasm for collaboration amongst the (appropriately diverse – archivists, academic historians, community activists, outreach professionals) audience at the stimulating ‘Diverse Histores – One Archive‘ seminar (#1arc) organised jointly by The National Archives and the Royal Historical [...]
