This should be the first of several posts from this year’s Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Chicago, for which I have received generous funding to attend from UCL’s Graduate Conference Fund, and from the Archives and Records Association who asked me to blog the conference. First impressions of a Brit: this conference is huge. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘TNA’
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 [...]
Digital Connections
Posted in Conferences, tagged APIs, British Library, Digital Connections, digitisation, IHR, JISC, Mapping Crime, TNA, users on 1 April 2011 | 1 Comment »
Digital Connections: new methodologies for British history, 1500-1900 I spent an enjoyable afternoon yesterday (a distinct contrast, I might add, to the rest of my day, but that is another story) at the Digital Connections workshop at the Institute of Historical Research in London, which introduced two new resources for historical research: the federated search [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
