A round-up and some brief reflections on a number of different events and presentations I’ve attended recently: Many of this term’s Archives and Society seminars at the Institute of Historical Research have been been on particularly pertinent subjects for me, and rather gratifyingly have attracted bumper audiences (we ran out of chairs at the last [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Flickr’
Establishing Trust in Archives Online
Posted in Operational Digital Archives, PhD Research, tagged community archives, Flickr, Great War Archive, RunCoCo, TNA, trust, user generated content, wikis, Your Archives on 13 April 2010 | 2 Comments »
In conversation with the very excellent RunCoCo project at Oxford University last Friday, I revisited a question which will, I think, prove central to my current research – establishing trust in an online archival environment. This is an important issue both for community archives, such as Oxford’s Great War Archive, as well as for conventional [...]
Web 2.0 in Local Government
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30 year rule, blogs, facebook, Flickr, RSS, Twitter, UK, Web 2.0, YouTube on 26 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reading about the Foreign Office and the Treasury’s use of YouTube (see http://www.youtube.com/hmtreasuryuk and http://www.youtube.com/user/ukforeignoffice), government department bloggers, use of RSS and Flickr (for example, http://www.flickr.com/photos/foreignoffice/) in the 30 Year Rule Review got me wondering about the use of Web 2.0 services in West Yorkshire’s local authorities. So I decided to find out! The results of my [...]
Muse(um)-ings on Technology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged computing museums, Flickr, Web 2.0 on 2 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
As a gentle introduction to the serious business of my Fellowship, and whilst it still feels like I have left my brain behind somewhere, I’ve spent this afternoon at the Melbourne Museum. The visit was the result of a chance last-minute connection, but fitted into a theme I shall also be looking into at the [...]
