Archiving “Out of the Box”
There are lots of options for communities who have history to preserve but don’t have a formal organization that can pay to collect community histories and then put them online. These community archives can be big and public–whole cities, and centuries worth of memories meant for everyone to see–or small, family archives meant for sharing with smaller circles of close relatives.
Many of the resources out there for community-archiving projects focus on partnering with universities or libraries to handle technical questions.
The DigitalArc “out of the box” toolkit starts much earlier–with community needs and event planning–and goes all the way through the process of preserving community histories in digital form on a community-owned, free website. Your community can use this toolkit as a flexible template for free community-storytelling and archiving projects that will last, starting wherever you need, whether you need pre-event planning, storytelling collection, publishing a digital archive, or all of the above.
Table of Contents
- Overview
- First Steps
- Pre-Event Planning
- During the Event
- Post-Event Clean-Up
- Publishing Your Site
- Troubleshooting
- Github Pages is Failing to Build My Site
- My New Page Doesn't Appear in Navigation
- The Photo of My Item Isn't Rendering As Intended
- There's a 404 Error Where a Page Should Be
- There are Weird Characters On My Page
- I Accidentally Deleted a Folder in Github and Can't Recreate It
- I Committed My Changes, but My Page Looks the Same
- My Audio Isn't in a Supported Format
- Resources
- Advanced Docs