Crowds & Communities: Promoting Collaborative Creativity in Archives

Alexandra Eveleigh Department of Information Studies University College London alexandra.eveleigh.09@ucl.ac.uk @ammeveleigh

Alchemist Archivist

Carrier bag (all archives arrive in supermarket carrier bags)

Pencil n.b. NOT a pen

Sensible shoes

Grey skirt

Cardigan

(Yes, this took me ages)

If male, add beard and substitute trousers plus socks & sandals.!

String of pearls Bun (optional)

Catalogue

Dust

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/2921672870/

Documents!

Photograph!

Miserable Archivist L Happy Archivist J

The way we create documents has changed…

and so must the purposes & functions of the archive.

Écrire à travers le temps http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernanc/3840526505/

Tagging, Commenting, Wikis…

Look, it’s even dated!!

User Contributed Descriptive Metadata http://www.flickr.com/photos/zigazou76/4297491287/

Username!

Indexing, Transcribing…

Crowdsourcing http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hatm/3766078045/

Mashups…

User Creativity

Participants

Professionals Users

The Participatory

Archive

Networks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjcockell/4405616339/

Authority!Control!

Cohesive communities?!

Diversity!

Crowds!

Disintermediation!

The Archival Commons!