Exploring Strange New Worlds: Archives TNG

Exploring Strange New Worlds: Archives TNG Amanda Hill Deseronto Archives & Hillbraith Ltd.

Double cream impossible to source in Ontario $1.20

Except at Thanksgiving – and then it’s expensive! $4.99

Family heirloom solution to the problem of no cream

Cultural heritage institution with information about this object. Would like to find out more…

Subscription-only service

Perhaps I can find the item at the institution’s own website?

Perhaps not…

Have to use academic credentials to get access

Restrictive licensing means I can’t share the image. The description of the object is inaccurate (and no response was received to a suggested correction).

User experience
Frustration
Difficulty of getting to the item in first place
Not being able to share the item with a wider audience
Being ignored when attempting to improve information attached to the item

User requirements
Easy access to materials, direct from search engines
Raises profile of collections
Ability to share items with others
Free promotion of repository
Good public relations
Ability to help improve descriptions
Better metadata!

Image by Stuart Davis of Trek Art (from http://www.xs4all.nl/~dassel/wall/1701-d-wallpaper.jpg ) Isn’t that going to be expensive and complicated to do?

Total annual budget: $11,000
Staff: 1 part-time archivist (0.2 FTE)
Open 6 hours a week
Limited IT infrastructure & support
Collection rich in images
Deseronto Archives Tricorder image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountsutro/4434140820/

Deseronto

Seeking new civilizations
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

Basic usage statistics
1,062 images on Flickr
41 images with comments
156 images ‘favorited’
Over 50,000 views
60 blog posts, 4 pages
53 comments
223 tweets
107 followers

Impact (more interesting!)
Comments and notes from users
Collaboration with users
New accessions
virtual, digital and tangible
New creative works
Funding for new projects
and a trip to Halifax…

Unexpected meeting in London with donor of images

Creativity
15 year-old using the images as a source of inspiration for a virtual railway project
Virtual guided tour of Deseronto using Flickr geo-location of images

Walking tour

Financial impact
$4,000 in 2009 for digitisation from Town of Deseronto
$20,000 recently received for ‘About Deseronto’, a new community-created site
75% from Ontario Ministry of Culture
25% from Town of Deseronto

Disadvantages?
Too Much Information: personal details added to a blog post (quickly taken down)

Things to consider
Security/portability of images and metadata from ‘cloud’ services
Have backup copies
Possibility of vandalism/inappropriate content
Vigilance important (incidence negligible so far)

In Conclusion
Overall, benefits of sharing have far outweighed any disadvantages
It’s possible to have a big impact without having a big budget

http:// portland.craigslist.org /forums/?act=Q&ID=134617845

www.flickr.com/deserontoarchives
deserontoarchives.wordpress.com
twitter.com/DeserontoArch

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Exploring Strange New Worlds: Archives TNG

by Amanda Hill on Jun 13, 2010

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