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VALA2016 Session 13 Ruge

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Digital Dilemmas: a participatory investigation into developing a digital strategy for a community archive

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 13: Digitisation Adventures
Thursday 11 February 2016, 12:00 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-13-ruge

Courtney Ruge, Steve Wright, Joanne Evans

Monash University, Vic

Graham Willett

University of Melbourne, Vic

Gary Jaynes

Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Vic

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This paper reports on the progress of a collaborative project between Monash University and the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, which aims to provide public access to the Archives’ digital collections through the development an online exhibition and an exploration of the possibilities for building an online catalogue using open-source software. The paper explores the challenges involved in attempting to undertake effective consultation and collaboration between researchers and community archives in a community informatics project of this nature, the challenges for community archives in resourcing complex digital projects, and the issues associated with developing a digital strategy for a community archives from multiple stakeholder perspectives.

 

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VALA2016 Session 5 Ruge

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Digital image collections and social media sharing: goals, strategies, and challenges for Australian cultural institutions

VALA2016 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: Warding the Past
Tuesday 9 February 2016, 14:45 – 15:15
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Courtney Ruge and Tom Denison

Monash University, Vic

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This paper reports on the use of social media in conjunction with digital image collections by Australian cultural institutions. The research draws upon an adaptation of the theory of affordances in examining the goals, implementation, and outcomes of a sample of cultural institutions in using digital image collections in various combinations with social media platforms. The implications and challenges associated with establishing and maintaining a strong presence within the spaces of image-sharing and information-sharing via social media and digital image collections are explored, including examples from the current practices of Australian cultural institutions obtained through a website survey and interviews with industry professionals.

 

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