| Abstract | D-Lib MagazineThe analysis of the policies reveals largely a legal focus.It is an incredibly intimate reflection of our interests, priorities, disagreements and values.This has given rise to many unique challenges.The aim is to analyse and synthesize the relevant discourses, and to identify concepts that contribute to a discussion on what meaningful participatory construction of collective memories should entail.This is followed by a discussion of UCC and social metadata in the context of memory institutions, and the issues which arise from these.state that activities facilitated by the social Web are illustrations of participatory culture — once an individual has access to a computer, an Internet connection and a social Web application, they are free to actively participate in the online community concerned.Van Dijck (2009) also argues that focusing on the participant in the interaction neglects "the substantial role a site's interface plays in manoeuvring individual users and communities" (p.Jeff Howe's definition of crowdsourcing is that it "represents the act of a company or an institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call" (2006, p.Mancini and Carreras (2010) identify the major differences between memory institutions and Web 2.0.Huvila (2008), in discussing the concept of a participatory archive, acknowledges that while user participation…
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