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
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
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