A meeting place for people who manage archival collections
Posted 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 [...]
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Posted on June 2, 2011 by Archives Outside
At present our main intellectual control systems are not equipped to deal with Geotags. However, we are experimenting on a very small scale with geotagging images on our Flickr account.
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Posted on August 30, 2010 by Anthea Brown
Moments in Time has been keeping our brains active for almost a year now. I’m sure it’s as good for us as cryptic crosswords! What some of you may not realise is that this hobby has spilled over into our Flickr photostream.
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Posted on April 8, 2010 by Fiona Sullivan
The results of the web 2.0 stakeholder poll are in! The poll asked the question “How does you organisation engage stakeholders with Web2.0?”
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Posted on September 30, 2009 by Anthea Brown
By no means exhaustive, how could it be? Too many archival websites, too little time. Below is a broad spectrum of interesting reading and viewing from around an archivally themed internet.
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Posted on August 18, 2009 by Gionni DiGravio
Originally more than 8,000 glass negatives were stored in the cellar of Ralph Snowball’s Clarence Rd house. Most had not seen the light of day since Snowball’s death in 1925………
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Posted on August 11, 2009 by Lauren Carroll
Wagga and the Riverina, fifty years ago, was captured through the lens of Tom Lennon, talented photographer, artist, inventor and one of the city’s most recognizable characters in the 1950s-60s-70s.
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Posted on June 12, 2009 by Anthea Brown
Flickr has been our first foray into the fascinating world of Web 2.0. We set up a pro account in June 2008, with the aim of attracting a wider audience to State Records NSW by showcasing archival images and records in our collection. It was our introduction and, in part, a trial run of social [...]
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aardvark Access A Day in the Life Anzac Day Archives 2.0 Armidale arrangement and description CAN cartoon Charles Sturt University Regional Archives conservation crowdsourcing digital preservation digitisation disaster management flickr glass plate negatives maps maritime military Moments in Time Newcastle New England online gallery Open Data photographs plans poll post offices Powerhouse Museum researchers slideshare social media Staff Picks storage Sydney theatre tips Twitter University of Newcastle Library University of New England and Regional Archives video wagga wagga Web 2.0 World War II
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