Participatory Archives

Theory and practice

Edward Benoit III, Alexandra Eveleigh, Edward Benoit III, Alexandra Eveleigh

• Publisher: Facet Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781783303564
  9781783303571
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783303588
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

The rise of digitisation and social media over the past decade has fostered the rise of participatory and DIY digital culture. Likewise, the archival community leveraged these new technologies, aiming to engage users and expand access to collections. This book examines the creation and development of participatory archives, its impact on archival theory, and present case studies of its real world application.
Participatory Archives: Theory and practice is divided into four sections with each focused on a particular aspect of participatory archives: social tagging and commenting; transcription; crowdfunding; and outreach & activist communities. Each section includes chapters summarizing the existing literature, a discussion of theoretical challenges and benefits, and a series of case studies. The case studies are written by a range of international practitioners and provide a wide range of examples in practice, whilst the remaining chapters are supplied by leading scholars from Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
This book will be useful for students on archival studies programs, scholarly researchers in archival studies who could use the book to frame their own research projects, and practitioners who might be most interested in the case studies to see how participatory archives function in practice. The book may also be of interest to other library and information science students, and similar audiences within the broader cultural heritage institution fields of museums, libraries, and galleries.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• CHAPTER 1 Defining and framing participatory archives in archival science
• SECTION 1 Social tagging and commenting
• CHAPTER 2 Social tagging and commenting in participatory archives: a critical literature review
• CHAPTER 3 Social tagging and commenting: theoretical perspectives
• CHAPTER 4 Project Naming: reconnecting indigenous communities with their histories through archival photographs
• CHAPTER 5 (Hash)tagging with the users: participatory collection of digital social photography in museums and archives
• SECTION 2 Transcription
• CHAPTER 6 Engaging curation: a look at the literature on participatory archival transcription
• CHAPTER 7 Subtle transformations: increasing participation and access through transcription
• CHAPTER 8 Crowdsourcing metadata for time-based media in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
• CHAPTER 9 Participatory transcription in Amsterdam and Copenhagen
• SECTION 3 Crowdfunding and outreach
• CHAPTER 10 Kickstarting archives: crowdfunding and outreach in the digital age
• CHAPTER 11 Crowdfunding and the moral economies of community archival work
• CHAPTER 12 Acquiring equipment for obsolete media through crowdsourcing
• CHAPTER 13 Thinking outside the box: crowdfunding the Peter Mackay Archive
• SECTION 4 Alternative and activist communities
• CHAPTER 14 Degrees of mediation: a review of the intersectionality between community and participatory archives
• CHAPTER 15 Activist participatory communities in archival contexts: theoretical perspectives
• CHAPTER 16 Documenting a social movement in real time: the Preserve the Baltimore Uprising 2015 archive project
• CHAPTER 17 Community partnerships and collection development in the Legacy of Ahmed Project
• CHAPTER 18 Challenges, opportunities and future directions of participatory archives
• Notes
• Index