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The East Riding Blockdown project invited 11-16 year olds based in the East Riding of Yorkshire to contribute their thoughts and memories of life during lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic using the Minecraft videogame. The purpose of the project was to record contemporary responses to a historically significant period and preserve the contributions as digital image files whilst introducing a new audience to the East Riding Archives.

This panel discussion led by Dr Stephen Dobson features Michael Turnpenny, Head of Museum Development Yorkshire, David Johnson, Director of Strategy and Programmes at Cause4, and Jordan Taylor-Bosanko, Learning and Outreach Officer at the Museum of Cardiff. The panel discusses the key issues facing heritage organisations, approaches to partnerships, and the challenges of digital access when reaching audiences and offers insights from their own experiences working in and with the heritage sector.

In this webinar, recorded at the Digital Heritage Hub launch event, Dr Stephen Dobson provides an overview of the Digital Leadership and Digital Planning themes. From this session, you will have a better understanding of how to navigate the resources within these themes and the relationships between each set of questions. Three questions from across the Digital Leadership and Digital Planning themes are explored in more detail providing a deeper understanding of why digital change can be a necessary disruption for your organisation, how your organisation can become more audience-led, and what you as a leader need to know about social media.

Spectacle Media: Silwood Video Archive Project — the aim of this project was to open the Silwood video archive for the first time since filming began 20 years ago and invite the Silwood community to watch, comment on, and begin a participatory editing process to draw out the stories of Silwood.

Cinema Nation: Tag L8 — Cinema Nation worked with participants to create an interactive online platform that could hold community archive material from the Liverpool L8 area, alongside training resources.

Sheffield Feminist Archive (SFA): Women in Lockdown — this project aimed to document women’s experiences of the pandemic – in their own words – through written, audio, and creative accounts.

LGBT Foundation LTD: ‘LGBT+ Oral Histories Digital Archive’ — this project created a digital, accessible archive of LGBT+ oral histories focused on community empowerment and queer activism in Greater Manchester and beyond.

Northumberland County Council/Northumberland Archives: Preserving Cramlington Camera Club’s Digital Archive — this project worked with Cramlington Camera Club to preserve the Club’s digital archive at Northumberland Archives and involved community groups with the creation and preservation of digital photographs.

This guide explores the concept of open innovation and considers, with examples, how organisations in the cultural sector have maximised the mutual benefits of sharing knowledge and resources.

In this resource Ioan Marc Jones examines the best ways that heritage organisations can retain content skills and knowledge, with tips on auditing, sharing, mentoring and more.

As a medium-sized heritage organisation with a valuable archive, and possible brand identity too, how do you go about planning for the digitisation of your content? This guide seeks to offer some practical advice, points for consideration, and signpost some really informative resources to get you started.

Digitisation serves a range of purposes and offers many benefits for heritage archives. As a small organisation you may be wondering how you might plan and prepare for digitisation. This is a concise guide on how to get started and what to consider.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council: The East Riding Blockdown: Contemporary Collecting in Minecraft — this project aimed to capture youth experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the East Riding Archives’ collections using the videogame Minecraft as a creative medium and platform for digital storytelling.

Qisetna: Tasjeelat — Qisetna collect stories from the Syrian diaspora living in the UK. For their project, they set about conducting research across several UK regions and contexts, both rural and urban, to understand the current situation of the Syrian diaspora better, and reach Syrians from the older generation.

The Jewish Museum London: Mapping Migration: Jewish Temporary Shelter Cards — using the newly digitised Jewish Temporary Shelter (JTS) cards, this project explored how the museum could use georeferencing technologies to present information in new ways.

Creating a new digital archive requires a bit of forethought and consideration. In this article, we’ll give you some useful tips to help you get started with the process of creating a digital archive.

Search engine optimisation can help people find your heritage organisation’s digital content easily. This guide shows you how to get your content to rank highly in the top results on Google by creating and promoting content effectively.

Managing change is necessary in a landscape of rapid changes and emerging new technologies. This resource introduces a practical tool to help heritage organisations make the most of the opportunities that digital innovation may offer. Exploring the art of ‘improvisation’, you will learn how to embrace productive change.

CRM — customer relationship management — is not just about using a CRM system it’s about building and creating meaningful relationships with your visitors and audiences. In this online masterclass Helen Dunnett and Edward Appleyard provide practical insight into how a CRM strategy can work for a small to medium-sized heritage organisation and the impact it can have on audience reach and engagement.

David Johnson from Cause4 talked to Celia Gilbert from The Rose Playhouse in Southwark, London about this small heritage organisation’s experience of moving its events online and the positive impact this had on its digital fundraising.