Welcome to the Virtual Archives wiki!

This wiki is being created to correlate with a talk that I'll be giving at the the ECU's 6th annual Paraprofessional Conference.  

Barring any last-minute changes, the title of my talk will be "Visiting the virtual archives:  let your digits do the scouting."

Check back soon!  I'll have some links and other good things posted before the conference begins...

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Okay, here's the first addition to the site.  I've started to collect a list of bookmarks around this idea of "Virtual Archives".  You can access them on Twine, with this url:

http://www.twine.com/twine/1268s67ys-ds/virtual-archives

I'll be sure to add more later.  The majority of entries found here will not be covered during the presentation, but I want to "twine together" as many exemplary sites that I can.  If you want, feel free to join the group and add your own examples as well.

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Links to the "virtual archives" that I'll be discussing:

Flickr Commons

     indicommons

     New York Then and Now mashup

Archives of American Art -- Collections Online

Digital Collections at East Carolina University

     http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecu_digital_collections/

And quick looks at 2 more, to highlight the diversity of materials that are viewable online:

Jerry Slocum Mechanical Puzzles Collection

UVA's Numistatic Collection

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After the conference, please take a quick survey to tell us what you thought:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=ksmXXFTj_2bp9kWt3SL89YsQ_3d_3d