Proposing a Framework for Developing a Participatory Archives for Tehran Metropolitan Area

Exploring required components for creating a participatory archive for Tehran metropolitan area archival centers based on web2 technology. Method and Research Design: Based on extensive interview with a number of experts, we arrived at a number of categories. The Categories were used to develop a questionnaire and circulated among all the 95 practicing professional archivists of the area. Data from the 77 questionnaires completed and returned were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics and Friedman test. Findings and Agreement with the eight categories with a mean of 4.1924 and a standard deviation of 0.67304 was at a desired level. The eight categories include: collaborative archive management, protection and maintenance, legal issues, user participation, archive culture, technology, access and archivists.