Theme 5: Digital stories
Digital Volunteering and Connected Heritage are two programmes that took place in 2022-2023 as part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Digital Skills for Heritage initiative.
There were 17 Digital Volunteering projects that created and established new digital volunteering opportunities and roles for digital activities that could be done either remotely or in-person. Their stories and learnings are shared below.
Connected Heritage was set up to explore how digital tools can help solve some of the challenges organisations experience when collaborating with each other. Some of these digital collaboration stories and learnings are shared below.
Recruit and manage multilingual digital volunteers to interpret online collections
These ‘how to use digital tools to support collaboration’ guides were created by projects that took part in the Connected Heritage programme (2022-23) and address some of the challenges organisations, networks and communities experience when collaborating with each other. These guides cover a range of digital collaboration tools.
Creating a collaboratively produced learning output using interactive digital technology
Video: Digital Volunteering project, Glasgow Women’s Library
Video: CollabArchive — empowering and bringing to life archives
Digitally Democratising Archives was an action research project designed and led by The Audience Agency, supporting 10 organisations to explore archives, community engagement and digital tools. It was funded as part of the Connected Heritage programme.
