Crowding out the Archivist?

A British Perspective on Participatory Archives

“Success is down to the Participants”

Alexandra Eveleigh

Society of American Archivists

Chicago, IL

25 August 2011

Photo: Liverpool Street Station by David Sim http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205/

http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk

“Success is down the Participants”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/350231280/

Photo: Woo! (Ripon City Morris Dancers at Masham Sheep Fair) by Rick Harrison http://www.flickr.com/photos/sovietuk/2899289197/

Community

“I suppose everybody likes to belong to something”

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/living-poor-life.htm

Traditions: Serious Leisure & Volunteering

Linarite Crystals from Esgairhir Mine by Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumwales/3883613059/

Crystallization – Mobilizing Social Capital

http://www.connectedhistories.org/

“Untiteld”, 2005 by Joe Koelewijn http://www.vvork.com/?p=4224 (via Alexander Bohn http://www.flickr.com/people/fish2000/)

Feedback Loop

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/

Gatekeeping

Buckingham Palace Gate by Wally Gobetz http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/301059760/

http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/

Crowd by James Cridland http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/

Crowds: The Community Viewed Upside Down

http://www.oldweather.org/

Participants

ArchivistsResearchers

The Participatory Archive

Spectrum of Participation

Rainbow by Bryant Olsen http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanto/3501253227/

Community Crowd

Motivation Intrinsic, Social Extrinsic, Individual

Activity Type Sharing memories, Interpretation

Analysis, Entering data

Knowledge Transfer

Tacit Explicit

Thank You!

Alexandra Eveleigh

alexandra.eveleigh.09@ucl.ac.uk@ammeveleigh

http://80gb.wordpress.com