Sharing made simple
Tomorrow Jane and I will be taking part in a course for archivists who want to find out more using technology to interact with users and colleagues in new ways. Jane has organised the event with Brian Kelly, who works for UKOLN and maintains the UK Web Focus blog.
I'm looking forward to hearing more about The National Archives' wiki, which has recently been launched to the public. Jane and I went along to its internal launch in Kew last year and were very impressed. It'll be interesting to see how many contributions have been submitted from members of the public.
If you are attending the event, feel free to post comments here to let us know what you thought of the day and whether you plan to implement any of the technologies that we'll be looking at.Labels: web2.0
posted by Amanda at 4:38 pm
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I thought the course was excellent. I definitely plan to implement some of the technologies we heard about.
I thought colleagues might be interested in another archive finding aid which has implemented social software (I discovered it after playing around on del.icio.us!). It's called the Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections and you can find it at:
http://polarbears.si.umich.edu/
There's also a very interesting article about the project behind the website at:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/yakel/05yakel.html
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