For Community Informatics conference: CIRN Prato 2015.
There is a critical and growing need to understand and embrace the complex memory and archival needs of an expanding,
technologically savvy and actively participative society.
The need for memory-making and heritage is as diverse as the people and communities creating the stories. Memory-making plays a significant role in the identification of social and cultural standards, as well as values and factors that influence recordkeeping across multiple plural (and contested) memory
spaces including personal, community, collective and networked memories.
In my research I saw that YouTube was an enabler, facilitator and platform of personal curation, mediation and memory-making, hence providing a space for recordkeeping that supports the ongoing use of records through spacetime - an emergent archive
The Mediated Recordkeeping model (Figure 1) represents a framework to support the emergent archive to facilitate, enable and engage memory-making,rather than focus on selection, collection, and protection of cultural heritage within the bounds and custody of the institution.