Web 2.0 in the Archival Domain: Why and How in the Knowledge Economy
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https://doi.org/10.33700/2670-451X.25.1.121-130(2015)Keywords:
archives, knowledge economy, Web2.0Abstract
In the knowledge economy Web 2.0 applications used by archives are on the increase. This growing engagement has been having an influence on the way archival services and products are made available. In this article we aim to describe how Web 2.0 can work as a virtual extension for archives, by identifying impacts and benefits resulting from that innovation. The innovation is considered as inevitably linked to change and presents a number of challenges. The challenges can typically be brought together in three main areas: the technological change, the cultural change and the pedagogic change. These are all important, interdependent and must be addressed in both a strategic and an operational way if archives are to generate maximum benefit from their investment in this new communicating delivery mechanism. We restrict the attention to archival evidence-based knowledge, and examine issues in content, metadata quality, and knowledge dissemination policy that are important from the perspective of archival methodology.
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