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.
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