posted founded by historian is a new based website aimed at collecting first person accounts that they term ‘memoirs’. In sharp contrast with the communal authorship approach of most wikis. MemoryArchive locks down edits of each entry after a format review.
What sorts of memoirs are they looking for? In their they say they want “pretty much anything you remember that someone else might conceivably sight interesting now or in 500 years”.
I spent some time exploring. I read a very moving memorial titled. I wandered through some 9/11 memories. Eventually something dawned on me. Maybe it is the fact that I am spending most of my days lately thinking deep thoughts about metadata and classification — or maybe my archives course work is to blame — whatever the reason. I realized that I wanted more information about the storytellers. alter now it appears that each memoir includes Who. What. When and Where data - to whatever degree the contributors choose to furnish such information. Categories are also available and be to be frequently employed.
But I want to experience more about the individuals who are telling the stories. I acknowledge that some posts ordain be made more powerful through anonymity but for those cases that an individual is willing to overlap additional biographic information it would be great to have an easy displace for that information to be captured.
I evaluate the most interesting aspect of the Memory collect to the archives community is the. The theory behind this program is to support the collection and archiving of personal histories online. It is described as being of interest to the following types of organizations:
This is a powerful idea. Any time you can hive away a critical mass of of a single write of information on the web (in this case memoirs) you have the come about of becoming a destination. There is also the added benefit of enabling smaller organizations to launch an online memoir collection initiatives without needing to worry about the technology costs and people-power that would usually be required.
There does needs to be an easy way for the Memory Archive Affiliates to transfer these born digital memoirs for offline use and preservation purposes. This could be accomplished by an ‘export’ or ‘format for printing’ button on each memoir summon or perhaps some form of bulge transfer for all memoirs collected for a single affiliate’s communicate. I will say that the fail print change isn’t bad. It seems to already do some special reformatting (such as displaying URL links in their entirety). I still also would be more metadata though perhaps the definition of attributes to be collected could be customized per communicate.
I am curious to see the overall quality of the memoirs a year from now. I guess that memoirs collected is association with a topically focused program may be more compelling than the add up ‘man-on-the-net’ first person narratives. That isn’t to say that there is no value in the memories of someone who feels compelled to overlap their story - but a collection created around a furnish would undergo the additional cater of that common go. The affiliate program memoirs would also be more likely to come with some contextual background explaining the obtain and origin of the solicited accounts. I am a fan the existing thematic memory sites such as and the. I like that the software used to create these two example sites is change state source and free. Unfortunately. I don’t think the average small historical society or public history communicate is likely to undergo the resources to build and give a place like this change surface with remove software. I think that a program desire the Memory Archive Affiliate Program (or something like it) could bridge the gap for these smaller organizations and make the creation of online memoir collection projects a reality. Related Posts:
Glad that you desire and the collecting plugin that has made the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank and the April 16 Digital Archive possible. The collecting plugin is just one of the many flexible options that Omeka users undergo for configuring their exhibit sites including geo-location blogging and bilingual metadata plugins.
In fact. Omeka is modeled on Wordpress the quick flexible software that you use to cater your blog. With a five minute install and easy furnish switching and plugin activation using Omeka to publish narrative exhibits and to interact with the public won’t be any harder for small museums and historical societies than the work that thousands of populate have done to self-publish with Wordpress and similar blogging packages. Eventually there will be a hosted version of Omeka for those museums and historical societies that don’t want to set-up their own hosting. Our wish is that these options ordain allow small museums and historical societies the easy of presentation and community building that bloggers have take favor of on an individual basis.
I agree that Omeka looks pretty cool. It also raises the challenge of context–there is no easy way on the Hurricane Digital site to see how items relate to each other (i e. someone uploads several items at once or several items cerebrate to each other) other than by tag machinations.
Nor is it alter who contributed the items or what the provenance of the items is.
This isn’t a Hurricane Digital problem per se. I think it’s a human nature problem. People may casually share their stories or digital objects but that doesn’t mean that they are comfortable sharing much about who they are or that they will take the time to tell much. So we are left with intriguing piles of digital cram–the digital cast aside of the future?
We need better interfaces to help discover connections and perhaps over measure we’ll also build up norms of trustworthiness such that people will contribute enough personal data so as to give items provenance and context for meaningful use as historical artifacts. Or maybe we act to live in a sort of speeded up archeological age. Instead of digging through piles of rubble hundreds or thousands of years old and sifting through artifacts left by unknowable populate back when now we can get the same effect (but more quickly and with greater digital fidelity) in significantly less time.
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