Archiving Out of the Box

Our DigitalArc toolkit provides an easy-to-edit template for community-storytelling and archiving projects, from pre-event planning through storytelling collection to publishing a digital archive of the event

Table of Contents

1. Quick Start Guide
2. First Steps
   • Planning Committee
   • Setting up Google for File Sharing and File Management
   • Timeline
3. Pre-Event Planning
   • Assessment
     • Community Needs and Wants
     • Information-Gathering Meetings
   • Logistics
     • Venue
     • Walkthrough/How-To day-of event planning
     • Volunteers
     • Equipment
     • Task List
   • Community Outreach
     • Marketing
     • Communication
4. During the Event
   • Check-In
   • Digitization and Photography
     • Uploading Your Files During the Event
   • Oral History Interviews
   • Checkout
5. Post-Event Clean-Up
   • File Naming
   • Transcription Editing
   • Photo Editing
   • Metadata Clean-Up
   • Preserving Files
   • Sharing Files
   • Content Editing
6. Publishing Your Site
   • Understanding Websites
     • What is Github?
     • What is Jekyll?
   • The Basics
     • Site Name and Authors
     • Text and Images on the Home Page
     • Typeface and Colors
     • Navigation Options
   • Posting Items
     • Photographs of Objects and Documents
     • Audio
     • Video
   • Customizing the Jekyll Theme
     • Changing the Way Metadata Labels Display
     • Creating Additional pages
   • Making Your Site Public
   • Preserving Your Site
7. Troubleshooting