Liam Wylie

RTÉ Archives the largest audiovisual collection in Ireland

Our role is to manage, develop and open up thenational resource that is RTÉ Archives

RTÉ Archives are now consolidated within RTÉ Digitalwhich has helped us begin to provide access to our collections

User Generated Metadata

People…..

Discovery

Use the crowd? Gamification

Incentivise

Broadcasters have audiences but Public Service Broadcast Archives are

not always public facing

So how do you use the crowd?

What have we been doing?

• RTÉ Stills Library https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/

• www.rte.ie/archives

• @RTEArchives - Twitter

Audience Engagement

What have we been doing?

• RTÉ Stills Library https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/

• www.rte.ie/archives

• @RTEArchives - Twitter

Ask the public for help with a photograph

Regular event – Every Tuesday

Feature on www.rte.ie/archives

Push via Twitter @RTEArchvies

Create public discussion

Who we are

40 photographs posted to date

22 photographs where we got the information we hoped for

Benefits

• Interaction

• Add information to catalogue

• Audience learns what we do

• Traffic to photographic collection

• Engage your own staff

• Relatively cheap & resource light

• To use the crowd you need to have the attention of the crowd

• No – ‘Field of Dreams’ approach