http://archive.umwblogs.org Just another UMW Blogs.org weblog Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:07:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If history is told by the winner, then the archive is the evidence for that story. An archive, as defined by Wikipedia, refers to... ...a collection of historical records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept.[1] Archives are made up of records (AKA primary source documents) which ... http://archive.umwblogs.org/2008/04/08/what-is-an-archive/ So given the definition of an archive as an "records which have been accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime," then the obvious question is where is your personal archive? For example, where is the record of your work here at UMW over the last X ... http://archive.umwblogs.org/2008/04/08/personal-publishing-archive/ What are some examples of organizational archives? Well, Wikipedia offers an excellent an List of Archives. The Library of Congress Archive Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. The UMW Archive The UMW Centennial on Flickr Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. The UMW Centennial Blog Duke University's Year Look on Flickr Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR. . http://archive.umwblogs.org/2008/04/08/organizational-publishing-archive/ Textual Archive Blogs Wikis Image Archive Flickr Video Archive YouTube Website Archive delicious http://archive.umwblogs.org/2008/04/08/tools-of-the-distributed-personal-archive/ The Internet Archive The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line library and archive of Web and multimedia resources. Located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, this archive includes "snapshots of the World Wide Web" (archived copies of pages, taken at various points in time), ... http://archive.umwblogs.org/2008/04/08/the-internet-archive/ How do we navigate a digital archive? Using many of the same resources you already do, namely searching, tags, and more traditional ideas of metadata. http://archive.umwblogs.org/2008/04/08/tags-searching-and-metadata/