Formation Leading a participative archive project
Training goals
Be able to:
- set up and run participative archive projects with all kinds of documents or archives, digitised or analogue (text, stills, filmed images).
- recruit, involve and motivate users.
- identify benefits for the organisation or cultural institution.
Details
Contents
Archives and participative Web: context (crowdsourcing, social metadata, collaborative archives, participative archives), stakes, state-of-the-art developments.
Participative archive strategy: what objectives?
Project methodology:
- the perimeter, the partners, the means, technical choices (tools),
- legal aspects, guaranteeing the quality of the data and integrating them to ensure better research results,
- involving and motivating the user contributors (community management),
- communicating effectively internally and externally.
Targeted at
Targeted at
Archivists, audiovisual researchers, librarians, archive project directors.
Prerequisites
None.
Training methods
Trainers
Specialists of participative archive projects.
Training methods
Theoretical presentations.
First-hand experience.
Case studies using written documents, photographs and audiovisual archives.
Strong points
• Finding the right questions to ask, methods to set up.
• Review of existing projects.
• Keys to implicate users.