A quick look at some examples of the promotion of cultural collections on twitter…
Category Archives: Digital 2.0
Digitisation and the Small Archives
As the Archivist in an organisation whose core business is education, providing digital access to the collection has been primarily a response to providing access for the Archivist rather than a desire to reach a wider audience.
Our first year blogging – Archives Outside turns 1 year old
We haven’t forgotten you ‘lurkers’.
Yes, you know who you are. You might not have left a comment or written a post but you have become a regular reader and visit us often. Thank you :)
Digital cameras in the reading room: what are your thoughts?
While there is much information and interest to be found online on this topic, we’ve still been mulling it over for a while here and would like to get your opinion on some questions below.
Results of poll on Web 2.0 Stakeholder engagement
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?”
Poll: Stakeholders & Web 2.0
Government 2.0 is a key means for renewing the public sector; offering new tools for public servants to engage and respond to the community; empower the enthusiastic, share ideas and further develop their expertise through networks of knowledge with fellow professionals and others.
Emerging Technologies For the Provision of Access to Archives: issues, challenges and ideas
“Web 2.0 and 3.0 will not change archives. But they do provide tools with which archives can change themselves. Doing so will require many old and different questions to be re-examined.”
Creating a digital gallery (part 5 – putting it all online)
8:53am – Physically, and perhaps philosophically, I am a digital version of my original self. I am reporting from inside ‘the network’. It appears my investigation is almost at an end.
Creating a digital gallery (part 4 – digitisation and transcription)
The latest “Day in the Life of…” from an archive in the State Records NSW collection. This informative series focuses on how to add a digital gallery to your website, featuring our latest online exhibition “Lachlan Macquarie: visionary and builder”