Forum 4: Diversifying the Digital Historical Record - Why and How to Addres...
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Integration: Why and How to Address Integration with National Digital Collections Initiatives?
Host Institution: New York University
This fourth and final forum of the Diversifying the Digital Historical Record project will be hosted by the History Department of New York University. Entitled “Integration: Why and how to address integration with national digital collections initiatives,” this forum aims to discuss strategies and recommended practices for community archives to integrate with national digital initiatives. Community archives are traditionally and understandably very independent entities, generally serving single communities and growing out of necessity because of exclusion. How do we begin to think about integrating community archives collections, organizations, and projects with national digital initiatives while allowing for the individuality and independence of those entities to continue to flourish? Additionally, the forum will address how larger institutions of cultural heritage and community archives are interrelated to one another and at the heart of intersecting social justice and historical documentation.
The one and a half-day conference begins on Friday, October 20th with a full day of panel discussions which will include speakers from libraries, museums and community archives. The forum will conclude on Saturday, October 21st with a series of roundtable discussions on tools and strategies to address the challenges facing community archives and avenues of support for institutional sustainability.
Diversifying the Digital Historical Record (http://diversifyingthedigital.org/index.html) is a collaborative project whose partners include the Amistad Research Center, Mukurtu, Shorefront Legacy, South Asian American Digital Project, and the Inland Memories Project of the University of California - Riverside.
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Organizer Amistad Research Center
Organizer of Forum 4: Diversifying the Digital Historical Record - Why and How to Address Integration with National Digital Collections Initiatives?
The Amistad Research Center (ARC) is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights.
ARC houses more than 800 collections, including:15 million original manuscripts and rare documents ranging from the 1780s to present;2,000+ periodicals dating from the early 19th century; 250,000 photographs dating from 1859; 400+ oral histories by musicians, civil rights activists, writers, military figures and community members;400 works of African and African American art, including works by several internationally renowned 19th and 20th century African American masters; and 25,000+ monographs, books, articles and dissertations on the history of African-American and ethnic groups.
