Day 1 Proper of the conference began with acknowledgements to the organisers, some kind of raffle draw and then a plenary address by an American radio journalist. Altogether this conference has a celebratory feel to it – fitting since this is SAA’s 75th Anniversary year, but very different in tone from the UK conferences where [...]
Posts Tagged ‘participation’
#SAA11, Thursday 25th August
Posted in Conferences, Preservation Tools, tagged #SAA11, copyright, credibility, motivation, participation, preservation tools, SAA, trust, USA, user generated content, visualization on 26 August 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Automating Archival Description
Posted in PhD Research, Research Projects, tagged automation, computers, data mining, description, OCR, participation, TNA, transcription, users, web scale, WYAS on 28 April 2011 | 1 Comment »
This post is a thank you to my followers on Twitter, for pointing me towards many of the examples given below. The thoughts on automated description and transcription are a preliminary sketching out of ideas (which, I suppose, is a way of excusing myself if I am not coherent!), on which I would particularly welcome [...]
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.
ECDL2010 – Day 2 (#ecdl2010)
Posted in Conferences, tagged digital archives, ECDL, folksonomies, participation, records management, tagging, USA, WYAS on 9 September 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Since it seems a few people read my post about day one of ECDL2010, I guess I’d better continue with day two! Liina Munari’s keynote about digital libraries from the European Commission’s perspective provided delegates with an early morning shower of acronymns. Amongst the funder-speak, however, there were a number of proposals from the forthcoming [...]
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 [...]
