A presentation given at the March 20th 2009 CRESC conference, 'Archives 2.0: Shifting Dialogues Between Users and Archivists.'

1. Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will they Come? [email_address] Archives Hub

2. Does Technology Drive History? ‘ Old New Media Readings’ by Krista76 (Flickr set) http://www.flickr.com/photos/slimcoincidence/406910873/

4. Perfunctory web 2.0 slide ‘ Web 2.0 Tag Cloud’ (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Web_2.0_Map.svg

5. I can has postmodernism? ‘ lolderrida4’ by 2fs (Flickr set) http://www.flickr.com/groups/philolsophers/pool

6. I can has postmodernism? “ Facts in texts cannot be separated from their ongoing and past interpretation, nor author from subject or audience, not author from authoring, not author from context. Nothing is neutral. Nothing is objective. Everything is shaped, presented, re-presented, symbolized, signified, signed, constructed” Terry Cooke “Archival science and postmodernism: new formulations for old concepts” 2001

9. Archives 2.0 or Participatory Archive… ‘ Council’ by andreyutzu, Stock.Xchng http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1124775

11. BBC Memoryshare

13. Your Archives (TNA)

14. Your Archives (TNA)

15. Your Archives (TNA) “ Your Archives is an exciting and accessible resource that enables anyone to share their knowledge of Britain's rich archival heritage and to reuse historical information in a way that has not previously been possible.” (http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/)

20. From Crowds to Communities of Practice “ Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly …” Ettiene Wenger, Communities of Practice 1998 “ Even though the participatory archive is about crowd-sourcing, it focuses on deeper involvement and more complex semantics rather than on larger crowds and simple annotation.” Isto Huvila, “Participatory Archive” 2008

22. Thank you for listening…