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From: 19 March 2009 | Time: 9:00
To: 20 March 2009 | Time: 17:00
Location: Manchester Marriott Victoria & Albert Hotel
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Category: Conferences » NCeSS

This conference is the final event in a series of events on archiving and reusing qualitative data. This conference will focus on the relationship between archivists, archives and their users. We will look at the emerging phenomenon of so-called ?Archives 2.0,? with the premise that this emergence is less about the integration of web 2.0 technologies into online finding aids, and more related to a fundamental shift in perspective, to a philosophy that privileges the user and promotes an ethos of sharing, collaboration, and openness. This conference will examine this arguable ?democratisation? of the archive, and consider its implications both for users of archives and the archival profession itself. We ask: * To what extent does the ?remix? culture of web 2.0 undermine the central premise of the archive which is to preserve the original context of an archival object? * How does this new culture encourage new modes of access and use of the archive within learning, research and everyday life?