Community Archiving
Community Archiving
Activist Handbook: Community Archiving
An introduction to community archiving focusing on the ethics of archiving and an overview of archival steps, including the video, "A Brief Introduction to Archives."
Activist Handbook
Archiving Protests, Protecting Activists
A live-streamed conversation hosted by Documenting the Now about documenting protest content while protecting activists and a list of resources shared by the panelists.
Documenting the Now
Community Archiving Workshop: The Handbook
"This handbook will serve as a step-by-step guide for organizing a Community Archiving Workshop. The goal of these workshops is to help an organization jump-start the preservation of an audiovisual collection—film, video, or audio."
Community Archiving Workshop
“Come Correct or Don’t Come at All:” Building More Equitable Relationships Between Archival Studies Scholars and Community Archives
This paper reports on a "two-day online workshop about the current state of academic research on community archives, its impact on communities represented and served by such organizations, and ways to envision and enact more equitable relationships moving forward."
Michelle Caswell, et al.
Community Histories, Community Archives: Some Opportunities and Challenges
This article examines "the community archive movement, exploring its roots, its variety and present developments."
Andrew Flinn
Confronting Our Failure of Care Around the Legacies of Marginalized People in the Archives
Bergis Jules gives a talk “about the silences and erasures in our archives, the implications of those silences and erasures, and how we can start to push back against them, to create a more inclusive community of practitioners working toward a more representative record of our history.”
Bergis Jules
Digital Blackness in the Archive: A Documenting the Now Symposium
Documenting the Now, Image Credit: CNN
Recordings of panels and talks from the 2017 Documenting the Now Symposium addressing "issues at the intersection of archival practice and the existence of Black people on the web and social media."
“How Are We Going to Look Back on This Time?” Oral Historians Record Daily Life During COVID-19.
This article addresses how oral historians are seeking to record life during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the importance of “capturing the stories of people who don’t necessarily think of themselves as important historical players,” as well as how chronicling the truth of the pandemic, particularly the disparities it highlights, can be a form of resistance.
Molly Schwartz, Image Credit: Megan Green
Kinship Project
“The purpose of the Kinship Project is to create a space where personal experiences and memories [are] connected to a particular moment in history through community engagement, oral storytelling, and the photographic image. [...] The Kinship Project is a special collection which contains over 4000 candid & professional family pictures […], mostly of African Americans from across the country.”
Samantha Hill
No one owes their trauma to archivists, or, the commodification of contemporaneous collecting
This blog post discusses the implications of “contemporaneous collecting projects” such as the collection of journals during the Covid-19 pandemic and whether or not they are the “newest form of archival commodification.” It examines the documentation of trauma, the types of records that are collected, and navigating archival ethics in the face of institutional pressures.
Eira Tansey
Preserving Social Media Records of Activism
Bergis Jules
Notes and slides from a presentation “focused on the value of preserving social media records of activism,” also comparing how activism is and was previously documented by the public.
Red Maps
Heaux History and Under the Red Umbrella
“Red Maps seeks to offer a new way to learn about sex work and sex worker history through interactive maps detailing the histories of erotic laborers in different cities - starting with Chicago and San Fransisco.”