‘The Digitisation Agenda’ Public Services Quality Group Forum 3 November 2010 Alexandra Eveleigh AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Holder UCL Department of Information Studies / The National Archives [email protected]Participatory Digitisation: The 21 st Century Archive as Conversation
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‘The Digitisation Agenda’
Public Services Quality Group Forum
3 November 2010
Alexandra Eveleigh
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Holder
UCL Department of Information Studies / The National Archives
Participatory Digitisation:The 21st Century Archive as Conversation
If digitisation is the answer, what is the question?
Delivery ““The idea of the The idea of the twenty-first century twenty-first century historian sitting in his historian sitting in his or her study in or her study in Australia calling up Australia calling up files from Kew is files from Kew is perhaps fanciful…”perhaps fanciful…”
Edward Higgs, Assistant Edward Higgs, Assistant Keeper of Public RecordsKeeper of Public Records
““Archives need a dialogue with users over Archives need a dialogue with users over priorities for digitisation to develop a priorities for digitisation to develop a
strategic approach that maximises the strategic approach that maximises the value of public and voluntary involvement value of public and voluntary involvement
in such work.”in such work.”
Archives for the 21Archives for the 21stst Century Century 3.143.14