Description
Book SynopsisUsing a wide range of case studies, this edited collection shows how community engagement and co-creation is challenging and extending the notion of the archive.
Trade Review"A testament to the vibrancy, depth, and diversity of collaborative research practices involving archives and archiving in the UK. It examines the challenges of collaboration, but even handedly celebrates the many benefits afforded by such modes of work." Richard Clay, Newcastle University
Table of ContentsCommunity archives and the creation of living knowledge ~ Simon Popple, Daniel H. Mutibwa and Andrew Prescott Disorderly conduct: the community in the archive ~ Simon Popple PART I: Storytelling, co-curation and community archives BBC Pebble Mill: issues around collaborative community online archives – a case study of the Pebble Mill Project ~ Vanessa Jackson New island stories: heritage, archives, the digital environment and community regeneration ~ Paul R.J. Duffy Memories on film: public archive images and participatory film-making with people with dementia ~ Andrea Capstick and Katherine Ludwin Doing-It-Together: citizen archivists and the online environment ~ Jez Collins ‘I’ve never told anybody that before’: the virtual archive and collaborative spaces of knowledge production ~ Tom Jackson PART II: Citizens, archives and the institution Rising beyond museological practice and use: a model for community and museum partnerships working towards modern curatorship in this day and age ~ Daniel H. Mutibwa Enhancing museum visits through the creation of data visualisation to support the recording and sharing of experience ~ Ian Gwilt, Patrick McEntaggart, Melanie Levick-Parkin and Jonathan Wood The digital citizen: working upstream of digital and broadcast archive developments ~ Kim Hammond, George Revill and Joe Smith Institutional collaboration in the creation of digital linguistic resources: the case of the British Telecom correspondence corpus ~ Ralph Morton and Hilary Nesi PART III: Disruptive and counter voices: the community turn Mainstream institutional collecting of anti-institutional archives: opportunities and challenges ~ Anna Sexton Silver hair, silver tongues, silver screen: recollection, reflection and representation through digital storytelling with older people ~ Tricia Jenkins and Pip Hardy ‘Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey’ LGBT histories: community 195 archives as boundary objects ~ Niamh Moore Locating the Black archive ~ Hannah Ishmael, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Kelly Foster, Etienne Joseph and Nathan E. Richards The public and the relational: the collaborative practices of the Inclusive Archive of Learning Disability History ~ Helen Graham, Victoria Green, Kassie Headon, Nigel Ingham, Sue Ledger, Andy Minnion, Row Richards and Liz Tilley Archive utopias: linking collaborative histories to local democracy ~ Lianne Brigham, Richard Brigham, Helen Graham and Victoria Hoyle Community archives and the health of the internet ~ Andrew Prescott
