Adapt to survive and thrive: core skills and the online environment
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This document discusses how archives and information professionals can adapt their core skills to thrive in the online environment. It emphasizes the importance of understanding users, organizing information according to standards, and engaging with users through various communication channels. The key is applying traditional skills of description, interpretation and organization at a global scale online while embracing new technologies and being open to change.
Adapt to survive and thrive: core skills and the online environment
- 1. Adapt to Survive & ThriveCore skills and the online environment
- 2. Core SkillsMeeting needsUnderstanding the UserOrganisation of InformationChannels of communicationBest practice in archival appraisal & descriptionRoutes into Content: Subject/name/placeStandardsEnvironmentAccess to digital contentInterpretationThe WebContextCurationGlobal perspectiveOpen data and APIsAggregationsCross domain discovery
- 4. The WebCore SkillsOrganisation of InformationBest practice in archival appraisal & descriptionA huge success!
- 5. Align with Web architecture
- 8. Cool URIs
- 9. Write for the web: a global space
- 10. Participation, interaction, dialogue: ‘democratisation’
- 11. Your Website is not the only thing that matters
- 13. Open Data & APIsOrganisation of InformationUnlocking the potential of data: making it openDiscuss issues over open data: licences, IPRDiscuss issues around controlProviding access for innovation: APIs = application programming interfacesCombine our skills with those of technical supportBest practice in archival appraisal & descriptionStandardsInterpretationCore SkillsGovernment Open Data site:http://www.data.gov.ukOpen Bibliographic Data Guide: http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/
- 15. The Web = global reachStandards for archives: ISAD(G), ISAAR(CPF), EAD, EAC-CPF, NCA Rules….Standards for cross-domain: Dublin Core, METS, RDF and Linked DataDescriptions for a global audienceCollaborationGlobal perspectiveOrganisation of InformationBest practice in archival appraisal & descriptionStandardsInterpretationCore Skills
- 19. New channels = dialogue and interaction
- 20. Web 2.0: Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Flickr.
- 22. Augmented realityChannels of communicationOrganisation of InformationBest practice in archival appraisal & descriptionStandardsInterpretationCore Skills
- 24. Understanding the userOrganisation of InformationBest practice in archival appraisal & descriptionLogs
- 25. Analytics
- 26. Surveys
- 27. Dialogue
- 28. Face to face
- 29. Web 2.0
- 30. Sharing what we knowStandardsInterpretationCore Skills
- 31. Value: cross-searching, inter-disciplinary, high profileStandards-based descriptions – ease of data integrationIdeally one description with remote searching. Difficult to achieve.AggregationsOrganisation of InformationBest practice in archival appraisal & descriptionStandardsInterpretationCore Skills
- 32. Old skills in a new worldHow much has it changed? A different scale; the same goalsSkills are still very relevant – need different mindsetWe should be excited by the information age – we are information professionals! Be outward looking, embrace change, take risks
Editor's Notes
- #8: METS = Metadata encoding and transmission standardRDF = Resource Description Framework