Carrie knight, Seward Family Digital Archive
Proposal Type
Panel
Seeking
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
Related Topics
- Digital
- Public Engagement
Abstract
How do we balance providing access to users and contributors while maintaining archival expectations and digitization standards? What are some of the unique challenges and opportunities of a multi-year, student-led, and volunteer-supported digital project? This session will look at repair work through the lens of accessibility. Re-conceptualizing how we organize, index, and exhibit archival records has the potential to facilitate greater public accessibility. Digital archives provide opportunities to reconsider and repair stories about the past. Through flexible models of engagement, we can also repair and reinvigorate community partnerships and revitalize students’ engagement with history.
Description
We are seeking general feedback and interest relative to our session proposal. Our proposed panel of speakers, drawn from the Seward Family Digital Archive staff at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY), includes the following:
Michelle Ridout (Co-Project Manager) – Re-conceptualizing archival record collections in creating a family archive
Camden Burd (TEI & Technology Manager) – Using Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to overcome traditional boundaries of archival research
Corinna Hill (Digitization & Special Projects Manager) – Digital archives as barriers or gateways?
Carrie Knight (Volunteer Manager) – Flexible approaches to volunteer management
Lauren Davis (Co-Project Manager) – Revitalizing students’ engagement with history and maintaining consistent practices
If you have a direct offer of assistance, sensitive criticism, or wish to pass along someone’s contact information confidentially, please get in contact directly: Carrie Knight, [email protected].
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