Archives 2.0 on a micro scale

Archives 2.0 on a micro scale Amanda Hill Hillbraith Ltd.

What I’ll be covering
Context
Activities
Measuring use
Assessing impact

Deseronto Archives
Total annual budget : $11,000 (£6,000)
Staff: 1 part-time archivist (0.2 FTE)
Open 6 hours per week (Wednesdays)

Deseronto

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserontoarchives/3062243312/ Part of c.1895 plan of Deseronto

West docks, c.1900 RATHCO-06-12.5

Main Street, 1890s RATHCO-08-02

World War I CAMPM-06-13

Deseronto Archives Small town History-rich Cash-poor

I.T.
Town website (no access for updating by archives staff)
Archives’ PC attached to Deseronto Public Library’s network & Internet
Network drive, backed up
No email account for Archives

Archives 2.0 progress…
Sep 2007:Gmail & Google Calendar account for Archives
Oct 2007: Blog set up
Jan 2008: Flickr account opened
Jul 2008: Moved to ‘Pro’ Flickr account
Jan 2009: Began tweeting
$47.99 (£26)

Using Twitter

Measuring Archives 2.0 activity
Basic measures
Blog: 27 posts, 7 comments
Flickr (pro): 362 items, 8,271 views, 15 comments, 4 favourites, 1 note
Twitter: 48 updates, 15 followers

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Traffic sources

Flickr Pro statistics

Impact of Archives 2.0 activity
Useful comments
Direct contact and collaboration with users
New accessions (virtual, digital and actual)

Flickr comments

Flickr notes

User-generated notes

Virtual collections

New digital materials
WWI Royal Flying Corps camps
Camp Mohawk images on Flickr and blog
Email from son of one of the flight instructors at Camp Mohawk, mentioning a photograph album

A spur for creativity… http://dcist.com/2009/03/photo_of_the_day_march_9_2009.php

Search engines

Impact of Twitter?
Early days

Confession…

Flickr calendar view

Impact = effort
Archives 2.0 technologies great for:
raising profile of repository/collections
having unforeseen and positive outcomes
for collection
new relationships and collaborations with users
BUT one of those outcomes might well be extra work for archives staff

Archives 2.0 consequences Creation and maintenance of Archives 2.0 presence(s) New conversations with users New content (may be held outside the archive) Finding a personal institutional voice

Archives 2.0 on a micro scale

by Amanda Hill on Mar 26, 2009

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