Call for Content

There is an urgent need for content!

Archives*Open is looking for content, and you can help!

Here's what we are looking for:

1. Your archives projects that are using Web 2.0 technology. What technologically innovative project will you be working on in the New Year? What are you launching in the New Year? Let us know. Leave a comment or send an email to archives.open@gmail.com with the following information: Your name or the name of your institution, name of your project, and a URL. Archives*Open will share it with its readers.
   
   
2. Your opinions, positive or negative, about technology and archives, particularly the Web 2.0 technologies and social media technologies that are transforming other sectors and industries. What do think about starting a blog? Could a wiki be in your future? Do you have ideas how archivists could use podcasting and videocasting (audio and video) in their outreach activities. Or, do you think all this Web 2.0 is a bunch of techno-babble nonsense?Just leave a comment or send an email to archives.open@gmail.com

The technologies and tools associated with Web 2.0 are vast; but applied properly, we feel, they can transform and provide a new level of interaction and access to archival materials, which is what Archives*Open hopes to chronicle in collaboration with its readers.

Kate over at ArchivesNext has dedicated several thoughtful blog posts to Web 2.0 (or more specifically and more accurately to Archives 2.0).

In one post, for example, she lists several archival Web 2.0 projects. A very good read and an excellent primer.

Finally, Kate wrote a profound remark on Archives 2.0, which I hope, if you have not already read it, will hopefully stir your thoughts and inspire you further.

If the archival profession is to successfully make the transition out of the 20th century, it will need to recognize that what gives an archives value is how it is used. In the last century, an archives may have derived status from the materials it preserved; in this century, it will derive value from the materials it provides access to–and that access will have to be online.

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