Thing 6: Social Networking

I already use facebook quite a bit, so this thing wasn't exactly new to me.

What was new was that I played quite a bit more with Google reader adding subscriptions and blogs. I'm going to find that very useful in the future - it will save a lot of running around to different sites.  I also loaded it on to my HTC desire. If this is the only thing I get from having done the first 23 Things I'll still be happy!

Thing 5: SlideShare or Online Presentation Sharing

Played around in SlideShare yesterday. I found plenty of presentations about Archives using Web2.0 tools and saved them to my favourites fairly easily. But I'm having trouble linking them in to this blog. I'll try again and see how I go.

Thing 4: RSS and RSS Feed Readers

Now I have done thing 4.  I had previously used RSS with Lotus Notes when that was the email system at work, so nothing new there.  However I had not used a Feed Reader, so I have now set up Google Reader. It seems to be a quick way to bring together all of the different feeds of interest, but I'd like to be able to categorise the feeds.  That feature may be available and I haven't found it yet, or it may not be there.

Thing 3: What is Web 2.0

Today I have done 'Thing 3'. Thing 3 was more of an information thing than an activity thing.

I already use Web 2.0 for personal use, but the information provided started me thinking about how we provide access to our collections and how we can improve this using Web 2.0 tools. I really liked the Interactive Archivist resource provided in Thing 3.  It got me thinking, along with Mitchell Whitelaw's interesting TED talk on Visualising Culture, about relationships between records and how we create and then present those relationships to our clients. Also, how those relationships contribute to context and therefore how we understand the records.

Mitchell's case studies seemed to focus on the relationship between words in titles or some other part of the metadata. But if we are creating relationships in current recordkeeping systems, how do we create them so they survive the transition into the archives and how do we represent those relationships in an easy to use and understand format? I don't have any answers yet. Maybe I will as I continue through the 23 Things.

Meebo

It's taken a few weeks, but I finally managed to make it to the second of my first 23 Things, which involved signing up for Meebo. It's interesting that you can add all your other IM accounts to Meebo, but I'm not convinced that I need to be accessible to the world through every IM link available. I didn't sign up with my work IM account as I like to manage when I'm available and not available on the university systems.

1st of 23 things

Ok, so this is my first attempt at following the 23 things for archivists. I'm planning to follow the whole 46 things for archivists to learn about Web 2.0. http://23thingsforarchivists.wordpress.com/

At work this week: trying to work out what evidence the PROV will be looking for if they ever check on standards compliance. I currently have a spreadsheet of almost 200 items gathered from the 4 published standards so far (see http://prov.vic.gov.au/government/standards-and-policy).  BTW I really don't like the way their new website is organised.

I've also just finished the first part of a strategy to make the whole organisation compliant with the standards, even though some of them are not published yet. There's a whole lot of work to be done yet.

Also on the to do list is some work for the VHERMAG RDA. We're almost half way through the a review of the agreed functions.