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Cultural lessons from the crowd in the cloud

Posted in Authority, Ingenuity, People-power, tagged , , , , , , , , on 10 August 2009 | 2 Comments »

In the last couple of weeks I’ve encountered some great insight into and evidence of the potential effect of large public networks on the work of making cultural assets accessible. It has come from two separate sources – Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, but also the first ever public conversation between Wikimedia and the [...]

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A Depression story in the National Archives

Posted in Zzz.. randomness, tagged , , , , on 26 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This post is an excerpt from a paper I wrote about findability of National Archives of Australia collection items for the 2008 Australian Society of Archivists conference. The idea is that anyone’s description of a record could be put to work in the service of findability. So the following is an example of a description, [...]

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