1. Liam Wylie

2. RTÉ Archives the largest audiovisual collection in Ireland
Our role is to manage, develop and open up the
national resource that is RTÉ Archives
RTÉ Archives are now consolidated within RTÉ Digital
which has helped us begin to provide access to our collections

3. User Generated Metadata

4. People…..
Discovery

5. Use the crowd?
Gamification
Incentivise

6. Broadcasters have audiences but
Public Service Broadcast Archives are
not always public facing
So how do you use the crowd?

7. What have we been doing?
• RTÉ Stills Library https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/
• www.rte.ie/archives
• @RTEArchives - Twitter

8. Audience Engagement

9. What have we been doing?
• RTÉ Stills Library https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/
• www.rte.ie/archives
• @RTEArchives - Twitter

10. 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

20. Who we are

25. 40 photographs posted to date
22 photographs where we got
the information we hoped for

26. Benefits
• Interaction
• Add information to catalogue
• Audience learns what we do
• Traffic to photographic collection
• Engage your own staff
• Relatively cheap & resource light

27. • To use the crowd you need to have the attention of the crowd
• No – ‘Field of Dreams’ approach