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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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)