The regional archives Maribor in Web 2.0

The Regional Archives Maribor in WEB 2.0 and the overall situation in

Slovenian archives

Nina Gostenčnik Regional Archives Maribor

Slovenia

Maribor

Capital of Culture 2012

Regional Archives Maribor

2nd largest

regional archives

in Slovenia

Holds about 17 running km of

archivesCelebrati

ng the 80th

anniversary in 2013

Research of Internet in Slovenia

Do you have a profile on a social networking page? No % Yes %

Men 277 43,2 364 56,8

Women 184 37,2 311 62,8

Age

10-15 19 33,9 37 66,1

16-20 31 22,8 105 77,2

21-25 55 25,6 160 74,4

26-30 79 34,5 150 65,5

31-35 41 36,6 71 63,4

36-40 36 37,1 61 62,9

41-50 95 62,5 57 37,5

50 or more 92 73,6 33 26,4

60% of people asked has a profile on at least one of the many web social networks

Presentation on the webAlmost all cultural

institutions in Slovenia are

present on the web at least with

a website.

www.siranet.si

SIRANET DATABASE

Use of Web 2.0 - archives

Started in 2011

Of nine archival institutions (state and church), four have begun using Facebook and only one has a Twitter account

None of Slovenian archives use any other web 2.0 applications, such as blogs, wikis or RSS feeds, or forums…

Regional archives Maribor in Web 2.0

• Facebook page and Twitter account

Regional Archives Mariborand Web 2.0

Dilemmas:Lack of knowledge about the web 2.0

Web 2.0 informal natureWasting time and effort for results which might

not be satisfactory

Advantages:

Bigger recognition

Different ways of promoting our activities, our holdings

etc.

Crowdsourcing is very helpful

Better communication with users

Contents

FB pages of archives and other cultural institutions

Conclusions

Web 2.0 used mainly as a means of promotion

Cultural institutions mostly use Facebook

The culture of social networking and harvesting the users‘

knowledge still has to develop

We still have some reservations, but if we don‘t try, we will never

know how web 2.0 can benefit our work.

Thank you for your attention.