Identifying and Interpreting Prewar and Wartime Jewish Photographs in Polish Digital Collections

The unbearable lightness of participating? Revisiting the discourses of “participation” in archival literature

“…Similarly, many of the practical examples quoted in the texts invite others to contribute their time and knowledge to identify photographs (Zinkham and Springer, 2011) Kalfatovic et al (2008) describes the Smithsonian Institution Flickr Commons project in similar terms. Users are given an opportunity to comment , tag (Kalfatovic et al, 2008;Sroka, 2011) or to "participate in the indexing of materials" (Kilkki, 2011). For the Smithsonian Institution, a presence in Flickr Commons gives opportunities to "enrich" archival holdings (Kalfatovic et al, 2008).…”