Archives 2.0: An Introduction

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Archives 2.0: An Introduction Kate Theimer Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting August 13, 2009
Archives 2.0: What it is NOT
- Not a passing fad
- Not just Archives + Web 2.0
- Not something in the future
- Not just for “tech” people
Archives 1.0 vs. Archives 2.0
- Closed
- Opaque
- Archivist/record-centered
- Localized practices
- Technology-phobic
- Results “unmeasurable”
- Archivist as provider or gatekeeper, authority
- Focused on “perfect” products
- Archivists valued because of what they know
- Tradition
- Relied on users to find us
- Open
- Transparent
- User-centered
- Use of standards
- Technology-savvy
- Measuring outputs, outcomes, impacts
- Archivist as facilitator
- Open to iterating products
- Archivists valued because of what they do
- Innovation & flexibility
- Looking for ways to attract new users
Archives 2.0 is natural evolution
- Result of