Networking Historical Sources: A Demand-Side Driven Approach

Many archives have introduced online archival databases in the past few years. However, apart from being independent of place and time, hardly any of these databases make finding records any easier than it was before. This paper suggests to put more emphasis on the needs and behavior of users and to provide them with the context in which records were created, thus making it possible to link archives in distributed locations and cultural heritage in other organizations as well as enabling users to learn archival search strategies and make better use of the databases provided.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: ICHIM
• Authors: Andrea Rosenbusch
• Keywords: Archival Search Strategies, ICHIM 2001, Many Archives, Online Archival Databases