The document discusses different approaches to digital archives, including producer-centered and user-centered models. It explores how digital archives can better serve digital natives who have embraced new technologies. It suggests that archives may need to provide more collaborative, relational, dynamic and real-time knowledge to engage modern users. The conclusion envisions archives moving towards a "cloud culture" where heritage is more accessible and people can more creatively contribute to and interact with archived collections.

1. When Digital Archives
Encounter Digital Natives:
The Knowledge Issue
Shih-Chieh Ilya Li
ilyaericlee@gmail.com
2010.12.1 at PNC, HK
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2. The Stories of Archives
• A bit of myself
• Spatial definition of
archives
• The practices of archives
• Two approaches
• Producer-centered
digital archives
• User-centered digital
archives
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3. Producer-centered
Digital Archives
• Examination criteria
• Policy-level pre-assumption
• Content analysis: metadata & requirement
• Project execution framework
• Duck test (inductive reasoning):
“If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and
quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”
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4. User-centered Digital Archives
• Avoid the contradictories
• We want a “producer-centered” digital
archives, but we also want “hits”
• Producers could want & contribute more
NYTimes Nov. 16, 2010: Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ Riches
• User-centered is a neutral method to
leverage participants’ productivity
• Professors vs. digital natives
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5. Digital Natives
• “Digital natives are younger
children and youth who have
embraced digital technologies
and tools as central to their
everyday lives and sense of the
self – who used (and abused)
these technologised spaces in
unpredictable and creative
ways beyond, and often
against, the authority of the
State” (Shah; 2007).
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6. Closer Look at Digital Natives
• Digital natives beyond “the state”
• Co-evolving with “technologised spaces”
• Against or innovate?
• What are the “technologised spaces”?
• Image-based communication (incl. video)
• Search & other features
• Portable & social media / services
e.g. what is the hashtag of our conf/panel?
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7. Contradictory Mindsets
• Different mentalities
• open vs. closure
• Inside vs. outside
• Internal vs. external
• Struggles of user behaviors: encountering
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8. Redefining Archives
• “Movage”(Long Now Foundation)
• Representation of archives (SL)
• Moving images archives & archivists
• Social media as archives / SM’s archives
• Library of congress aiming at preserving
tweets from twitter
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9. Case Studies
• UltraFilter (MingliYuan / WPIC, 2010)
• zh.wikipedia.org initiative
• provide more means engaging users
• Paper.li (SmallRivers, 2010)
• Twitter app of social relation bot
• Form as a new paper daily service
• On the boundary of SPAM
Archives-Services turn into new
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10. The Knowledge Issue
• How could our archives (collectively, maybe)
provide us new knowledge we need?
• Collaborative knowledge
• Relational knowledge (dbpedia & link data)
• Migrational / fluid / dynamic knowledge
• Real-time knowledge
• Action-oriented knowledge
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11. Conclusion
• A long way to go & moving toward:
• Practical “Cloud Culture” (by Charles Leadbeater)
More culture heritage stored in digital form + More accessible to more
people + People better equipped with more tools to add creativity to
the collection = Exponential growth in mass culture expression
• Social technologies and social design for
digital archives
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12. Thanks for UR Attention!
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