Towards Community Contribution: Empowering Community Voices On-line

Publication Type		Conference Paper
Year of Publication		2007
Authors		Alain, Angèle; Foggett, Michelle
Conference Name		Museums and the Web 2007. Proceedings
Publisher		Archives & Museum Informatics
Conference Location		Toronto, Canada
Editor		Jennifer Trant and David Bearman
Keywords		exclusion; wiki; engagement; tools; memory; re-collection; digitisation; community; immigration
Abstract		This case study discusses the processes and best practices for enabling community contributions to Web products. We compare community involvement in the National Archives of England and Wales (TNA) migration Web site Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England to Library and Archives Canada's immigration Web site Moving Here, Staying Here: The Canadian Immigrant Experience. TNA worked directly with different communities, whereas Library and Archives Canada worked indirectly with them, via genealogy centers, historical societies and subject experts, to develop similar Web sites on common subjects. What was involved, what could we have done differently? These are but a few of the questions we aim to answer.
URL		http://www.archimuse.com/mw2007/papers/alain/alain.html

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