Resources tagged with archive



Creating a digital community oral history archive

This ‘how to’ guide was produced as part of Digitally Democratising Archives (Opening Archives) an action research project, designed and led by The Audience Agency as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Connected Heritage programme. 1. Project overview LGBT Foundation is a national charity delivering advice, support and information services to lesbian, gay, bisexual … Read more

Create a remote global volunteer base to improve the searchability of digital archive

This is a ‘how to recruit, train, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background Archive services across Wales hold millions of irreplaceable records, including family and business papers, plans, photographs, parchments, personal diaries and council minutes. However, many are only minimally catalogued … Read more

Using Minecraft to engage young people with archive services

This ‘how to’ guide was produced as part of Digitally Democratising Archives (Opening Archives) an action research project, designed and led by The Audience Agency as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Connected Heritage programme. 1. Project background East Riding Archives and Local Studies collect, preserve and make accessible the documented heritage of the … Read more

Producing digitally creative and publicly engaging content that responds to archives

This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background CollabArchive is delivered by Nerve Centre in partnership with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). Nerve Centre is Northern Ireland’s leading creative media arts centre and PRONI … Read more

Transcribing audio and video archive material

This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background Our target was to engage 12 remote digital volunteers from anywhere in the world. They needed a minimum level of digital skills — able to use Microsoft Word, emails, … Read more

Digitally Democratising Archives: Case Study 10

1. Project overview Two decades ago, Spectacle took a collection of video cameras, microphones, tripods, and cables to the Silwood Estate in southeast London. They had been asked to work with residents for a few weeks – teaching them how to shoot video and make a short film as part of the planned regeneration work … Read more

Digitally Democratising Archives: Case Study 9

1. Project overview Tag L8 was a research and development initiative involving community archivists and activists from the Liverpool L8 area. 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. A key aim was to explore how materials could … Read more

Digitally Democratising Archives: Case Study 8

1. Project overview Women in Lockdown aimed to document women’s experiences of the pandemic – in their own words – through written, audio, and creative accounts. Through a series of pop-up events, online events, and postcard boxes in community spaces, the project engaged new participants and asked them to contribute their stories. SFA worked with … Read more

Digitally Democratising Archives: Case Study 7

1. Project overview The key aims of this project were to: Grow the representation of Bearwood women in local archives. Increase Bearwood Community Hub’s knowledge and capability to contribute to local archives. Learn, as individuals and as an organisation, how to create a podcast. Increase awareness of the local archive service, what digital archiving is, … Read more

Digitally Democratising Archives: Case Study 6

1. Project overview The project involved training a group of volunteers to conduct a series of 10 one-hour-long interviews with LGBT+ people of a range of ages across Greater Manchester. The interviews were transcribed, and the recordings and transcriptions formed the content of an online exhibition which was launched on LGBT Foundation’s website to mark … Read more