[Dialogue] Values for the Archives | creating a prototype database

[David Dunn]

On May 21, 2009, at 7:06 AM, R Williams wrote:

> Could there be, should there be, any connection between the archives  
> and the repository?

Randy and colleagues.

I finally got this database experiment online late yesterday at: http://macusa.net/mirror 
   I'll send an email to the listservs later today.

You ask the right question. Absolutely is my answer. I reckon that the  
database should contain records of the particular articles and  
documents held in the archives and links that take you directly to them.

I believe the larger question is how we go about updating the  
technologies we use to contain and access our common memory and how we  
engage lots of people in making connections between our memory and our  
present world.

I found two articles from Wikipedia valuable in expanding my context  
and stimulating my imagination (to borrow from imaginal education). A  
couple of insights are suggested by these two articles. 1) Our real  
challenge is not how to organize all the stuff that contains our  
common memory, but how we mine what we know and apply it to the  
future. (Knowledge management: The archive contains the raw ore in the  
mining metaphor.) 2) (Social computing) We have access to technologies  
that will help us use the capacity of a corporate mind to categorize  
and link what we hold from the past with the issues of the  
contemporary world.

This is a great conversation.

David

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David Dunn
dmdunn1 at gmail.com



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