Help build a library of current archives resources
This post is long overdue, so I apologize to my Scottish kinfolk for not getting it up sooner.
The brilliant people at the Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS) at the University of Dundee are trying something new–developing a “link library” of online materials relevant to CAIS’ students. You can read a full description in their own blog post here and you can see the work in progress at Delicious here. But, in short:
All we’re asking is that whenever you save a bookmark on a record keeping or related subject with your own delicious account (which is free) you tag it ‘for:CAIS_Archives’ (without the inverted commas). That sends the bookmark to our inbox and we can then save it for inclusion in the main list. The reason we’ve used this approach is so that we can keep a modicum of control over the vocabulary we use for tagging. As the list of links grows the tags will become crucial for discovery. However, we will take into consideration any tags you have already attached to the link.
It’s a project that has potential value far beyond CAIS’s own needs, so I encourage you to start sending links to the CAIS team via Delicious. (Don’t have an account yet? Here’s their getting started info.)
Crowdsourcing, Tagging | Kate T. | 
December 10, 2009 9:49 am
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