Community and Personal Archiving Resources
This open document on Community and Personal Archiving Resources is a compilation of guides, toolkits, existing projects, research, funding campaigns and other resources for people engaged in community archiving work. These resources have been assembled by individuals participating in the monthly social meetup, Community Archiving Happy Hour, which is open to all.
Gatherings and Mutual Support for Community Archiving
[edit]Guides and Toolkits
[edit]- ALA Core’s Preservation Week Resources: Creating a Digital Community Archive
- Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video, Witness [2023 pocket version: Quick Guide to Video Archiving]
- ardr_202010.pdf (wordpress.com) Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia: Anti-Racist Description Resources
- Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice, edited by Hannah Leah Crummé
- Community Archives and Heritage Group (UK)
- Community Archiving Workshop resources
- Community Oral History Toolkit by Nancy MacKay, Mary Kay Quinlan, Barbara W. Sommer
- Digital Archival traNsfer, iNgest, and packagiNg Group
- Digital Asset Management Systems
- Digital Readiness Toolkit - Recollection Wisconsin
- Guidelines for Collaboration
- Library of Congress resources for personal archiving
- Melody Karle’s Personal Digital Archiving website
- Norfolk (UK) Community Archives Toolkit
- Oral History Association Metadata Toolkit
- Preserving Australia’s Documentary Heritage: A Starter Kit for Community Groups
- Project STAND Archiving Student Activism Toolkit
- Protocols for Native American Archival Materials
- Reconciliation Framework: The Response to the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Taskforce
- RoPA: The Roadmap for Participatory Archiving
- South Carolina Preservation Toolkit
- Tacoma Public Library’s Community Archives Toolkit
- The Endings Project
- UCLA Community Archives Lab Toolkit
- WiLS IMLS Community Memory Tools and Resources
Projects & Programs
[edit]- Activating Archives in Remote Communities project lead by University of Iowa
- Arizona State University Community-Driven Archives Initiative
- Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts’ Digital Humanities Lab/Mobile Digitization Lab, Johns Hopkins University
- Black Beauty Archive
- Boston Public Library loans oral history kits, Boston Public Library
- California Revealed: Memory Lab Support, Training & Preservation
- Community Archiving Workshop
- Community Archives Program at UC Santa Cruz
- DC Public Library’s Memory Lab
- Dig DC: The People's Archive Digital Repository at DC Public Library
- Home Movie Day
- Interest form: https://airtable.com/appsCrD27VEQowIvS/shrw2h2bzZZlxzSNu
- Documents and resources for HMD hosts: https://www.centerforhomemovies.org/documents/
- Honduras Archives, Cinco Estrellas
- Interference Archive: Exploring the relationship between cultural production and social movements
- Invisible Histories
- The Listeners Project/Queremos Escucharte (tlpww.org)
- Manilatown Heritage Foundation
- Memories without Borders (California Revealed)
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA)
- New Haven Community Archives Support, Beinecke Library at Yale University
- Orange County & Southeast Asian Archive Center, UC Irvine Libraries
- In Poland, there’s a national office that supports community archives: https://cas.org.pl/centre-of-community-archives/
- People’s Media Record (Philadelphia, PA)
- Peoples of Utah Revisited
- Raíces Cultural Center Digital Archive & Community History Program
- Archive: https://archive.raicesculturalcenter.org/
- Community History: https://www.raciesculturalcenter.org/community-history
- Recollection Wisconsin
- The Queens Memory Project
- Scanners Archive
- Self Evident: Asian America's Stories
- University of North Carolina’s Community Driven Archives Program
- Your Story, Our Story Project by The Tenement Museum
- The Virtual Footlocker Project led by Edward Benoit from Louisiana State University
- Oral History Resources — Voice of Witness
- Warrior Women Project and [https://linktr.ee/WarriorWomenOrg Warrior Women LinkTree
- XFR Collective XFR
Campaigns for Support and Funding Resources
[edit]Tools and Systems
[edit]Reports & Research
[edit]- A Green New Deal for Archives
- Decolonial Archival Futures
- Held in Trust Report
- Philadelphia Audiovisual Collections Evaluation
- Shift Design has published a number of white papers and reports about community-based archives:
- Investing in America’s Diverse Culture & History Collections
- “Nothing About Us Without Us” Report from the Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit Southern University at New Orleans November 5–6, 2016
- Architecting Sustainable Futures: Designing Prosperity for Community-Based Archives
- Shift Collective Free Library