Adapt to Survive & Thrive

Core skills and the online environment

Organisation of Information

Best practice in archival appraisal & description

Curation

Standards

Interpretation

Understanding the User

Channels of communication

Routes into Content: Subject/name/place

Access to digital content

Context

Core Skills Meeting needs

Global perspective

Cross domain discovery

Open data and APIs

The Web

Aggregations

Environment

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• A huge success!• Align with Web architecture• Understanding identifiers• Persistent HTTP URIs• Cool URIs

• Write for the web: a global space• Participation, interaction, dialogue: ‘democratisation’• Your Website is not the only thing that matters• The Semantic Web

The WebOrganisation of Information

Best practice in archival appraisal & description

Standards

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Core Skills

• Unlocking the potential of data: making it open• Discuss issues over open data: licences, IPR• Discuss issues around control• Providing access for innovation: APIs = application programming

interfaces• Combine our skills with those of technical support

Open Data & APIs

Organisation of Information

Best practice in archival appraisal & description

Standards

Interpretation

Core Skills

Government Open Data site:http://www.data.gov.ukOpen Bibliographic Data Guide: http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/

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• The Web = global reach• Standards for archives: ISAD(G), ISAAR(CPF), EAD, EAC-

CPF, NCA Rules….• Standards for cross-domain: Dublin Core, METS, RDF and

Linked Data• Descriptions for a global audience• Collaboration

Global perspective

Organisation of Information

Best practice in archival appraisal & description

Standards

Interpretation

Core Skills

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• Engaging with users • Existing channels• New channels = dialogue and interaction• Web 2.0: Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Flickr.• Mobile technologies• Augmented reality

Channels of communication

Organisation of Information

Best practice in archival appraisal & description

Standards

Interpretation

Core Skills

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Understanding the user

• Logs

• Analytics

• Surveys

• Dialogue

• Face to face

• Web 2.0

• Sharing what we know

Organisation of Information

Best practice in archival appraisal & description

Standards

Interpretation

Core Skills

•Value: cross-searching, inter-disciplinary, high profile•Standards-based descriptions – ease of data

integration• Ideally one description with remote searching.

Difficult to achieve.

Aggregations

Organisation of Information

Best practice in archival appraisal & description

Standards

Interpretation

Core Skills

Old skills in a new world•How much has it changed? A different scale; the

same goals•Skills are still very relevant – need different mindset•We should be excited by the information age – we

are information professionals! •Be outward looking, embrace change, take risks