Your Archives - (The National Archives Wiki) Guy Grannum, Your Archives manager

2. Your Archives
ALISS AGM
Guy Grannum
16 June 2008

3. What is Your Archives?
• It is a wiki
• A programme which allows you to create or edit a webpage
through your web browser
• Best example is Wikipedia
• Uses the wisdom of crowds and experts
• It is accessible
• It is knowledge
• It is exciting!
• It is simple to use

4. Some statistics
(24 April 2007-30 April 2008 – 1st year)
• 746,500 visits
• 24% arrive from Google
• 6,728,159 page views
• 5,632 articles
• 8,071 registered users
• 101,774 page edits

5. Why have we done this?
• Feedback from researchers and staff
• Enable us to capture and reuse knowledge about records
• Allow both staff and readers to contribute this knowledge
• Enable constant improvement and fine-tuning of information
and advice
• Allow us to find out more about our online users and to be at
the forefront of Web 2.0 implementation in archives

6. What have we done?
• Created links from:
• Catalogue (reciprocated with links to the Catalogue)
• National Register of Archives (manual links back)
• Considering similar links from NDAD, ERO &
documentsonline (can use URLs)
• Seeded Your Archives with
• Almost 700 reading room memoranda
• 10 Research Guides & 29 Source Sheets
• And various finding aids

9. What can you do on Your Archives?
• Search over 3000 articles
• Browse using categories
• Correct or update an article
• Create a new article adding information to the Catalogue and
National Register of Archives entries, expanding upon
Research Guides or transcribing documents on
DocumentsOnline

10. Challenges
• Spam
• Moderating
• Content
• Links
• Language
• Vanity pages & links to virtual archives
• Breach of legislation
• Copyright, DPA, FOI, anti-terrorism