March 2012 – Link Roundup
Posted on April 2, 2012 by Archives Outside
The link roundup post is back! Take a look for information about storage, crowdsourcing, digital archives and more.
Continue ReadingA meeting place for people who manage archival collections
Posted on April 2, 2012 by Archives Outside
The link roundup post is back! Take a look for information about storage, crowdsourcing, digital archives and more.
Continue ReadingPosted on December 19, 2011 by Anthea Brown
Have you visited our reading rooms to view original NSW State archives? Did you take photos of the records? Add your photos of documents from the official NSW State archives collection to our new Flickr Group called Archives2Share NSW. We’re trying a crowdsourcing experiment, tell your friends! The idea of this new Flickr group is to [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on October 15, 2010 by Fiona Sullivan
As part of an exciting new Crowdsourcing project Oldweather.org is asking members of the public to help transcribe information in the naval logbooks of Royal Navy warships from the WW1 era.
Continue ReadingPosted on July 7, 2010 by Fiona Sullivan
“There is huge potential for libraries to harness digital volunteers. Libraries need to give up ‘power and control’ thinking and look to freedom instead. Harriet Rubin, business publisher and author talking about success says “Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash”"
Continue ReadingPosted on June 16, 2010 by Anthea Brown
Rose Holley talks about digital volunteers and the amazing things they are achieving. She also speaks about the innovative crowdsourcing projects at the National Library of Australia.
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