The open source movement has grown steadily and matured in recent years, and this
growth has been mirrored by a rise in open source related research. The objective of this …

User perspective and user studies have received noticeably little practical attention in
archives and archival science. The purpose of this article is to address the issues of …

Mass digitisation and the exponential growth of born-digital archives over the past two
decades have resulted in an enormous volume of archives and archival data being …

To date, definitions of participatory archiving or participatory recordkeeping have been
elusive. The use of the single term 'participatory'for disparate and seemingly contradictory …

In a practical and user-centered model for online archival description, what navigational
features are effective, efficient, and user-valued components for an academic archives' …

This paper reports on the Archival Metrics Project, which developed, tested, and evaluated a
set of toolkits designed to overcome some of the challenges of conducting user-based …

Research and scholarship in the fields of rhetoric and composition have been instrumental
in developing a framework for treating non-literary texts (eg, scientific articles, memoranda …

Market segmentation is an established technique in commercial marketing. It can be used by
archivists and records managers to help them gain a wider understanding of their users …

This thesis charts a course through an emerging landscape of online user participation in
archives, focusing upon user involvement at the point of practice known to professional …

Purpose This paper presents an exploratory case study on the impact of user-oriented
digitalization on records management in the Norwegian public sector. The purpose of this …