Talk:Community archives

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): A.xander.scebbi.

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Spitballing some ways to expand this page...

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Issues:

• Digitization as a way to build or link community archives
• Digital divide re: community members accessing their own material
• Archival training
• Community representation in the profession
• Ethics of access
• Capacity challenges (i.e. funding, disaster planning)

Examples of community archives:

• South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
• Polish Library and Archive
• George Padmore Institute and Archive
• Black Cultural Archive
• rukus! the Black LGBT archive
• Working Class Movement Library
• Lesbian Herstory Archives
• Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange of Sacramento, Incorporated
• Black History Archives (Virginia Commonwealth University & Virginia Union University) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Claireht (talk • contribs) 21:23, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
• this is just a few - there are so many!

Research & policy:

• Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in Northern Australia
• Bringing Them Home Report
• Recommendation 53 from the Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protocols for libraries, archives and information services
• Indigenous Intellectual Toolkit
• Community archives and identities: documenting and sustaining community heritage
• Trust and technology: Building archival systems for Indigenous oral memory
• “To wake them up again”: Digital futures for the international diasporas of early ethnographic collections from Arnhem Land

Software & platforms:

• Ara Irititja
• Mukurtu
• The Mulka Project — Preceding unsigned comment added by Claireht (talk • contribs) 20:56, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Plans for assigned article contributions

Potential Content
Having been assigned the Community archives article for editing, I plan to make the most of the great suggestions already posted to the Talk page, starting with the section marked "Issues," as listed above.

Potential Sources
I will also look more closely at the Woodward article I identified below and possibly search for a replacement. In terms of relevant, reliable sources, I will start with the following articles.

• Jeannette Allis Bastian, “A Question of Custody: The Colonial Archives of the United States Virgin Islands,” American Archivist 64(1) (2001): 96-114.
• Don Boadle, “Reinventing the Archive in a Virtual Environment: Australians and the Non-Custodial Management of Electronic Records,” Australian Academic & Research Libraries 35(3) (2004): 242-252.
• Alexandra Eveleigh, “Participatory Archives,” In Currents of Archival Thinking, Terry Eastwood and Heather MacNeil, eds. (Libraries Unlimited, 2017): 299-325.
• Rebecca Sheffield, “Community Archives,” In Currents of Archival Thinking, Terry Eastwood and Heather MacNeil, eds. (Libraries Unlimited, 2017): 351-376.
  Jf umd (talk) 19:29, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Question about the Woodward Source

Is there an alternative reference to "Participatory Archiving: The next generation in archival methodology" by Eddie Woodward? This selection appears to be published as a feature entitled, "The Way I See It," which the publication describes as offering "reasoned and informed speculation or comment on relevant topics" but explicitly excluding "formal, theoretical, or research-oriented articles". A more fact-based, less opinionated piece may be preferable.
Jf umd (talk) 19:17, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

References

Wiki Education assignment: The Rhetoric of Archival Exploration

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