Northwest Archivists 2007
Archivists in a Web 2.0 World: How Can We Make Social Software Tools Work for Us?
University of Idaho
19 May 2007
Here are the links to the resources I presented at the 2007 NWA conference. At the bottom of this post, I’ve included some places you can go if you want to find more like this:
Tools and Applications
Google Documents and Spreadsheets
Projects and Collections
OurOntario is part of the larger Knowledge Ontario project. This piece of the project collects digital cultural content about Ontario from: libraries, archives, museums, cultural heritage institutions, community groups, and individuals.
It is also a wonderful example of the openness, user focus and interoperability of the Read/Write web.
OurOntario: Yours to Recover
A presentation by Walter Lewis and Art Rhyno at the 2007 Access Conference. They discuss the technology behind the project, and the collaborative, social aspects of it.
BBC History: The Abolition of the Slave Trade
This interactive narrative of the abolition of the British slave trade is built on Google Maps, but integrates text and images from a wide variety of archives, libraries and other sources.
To explore further
Google Maps Mania
This blog provides an almost-comprehensive list of mashups based on Google Maps - an impressive feat.
Digital History Hacks
This blog by William Turkel at the University of Western Ontario discusses the use of the emerging web in the history classroom, as well as larger issues related to technology and education.