Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices

by Andrew Prescott (Contribution by), Victoria Hoyle (Contribution by), Richard Brigham (Contribution by), Lianne Brigham (Contribution by), Elizabeth Tilley (Contribution by)

Overview

This innovative book examines the changing relationship between communities, citizens and the notion of the archive.

Archives have traditionally been understood as repositories of knowledge and experience, remote from the ordinary people who fund and populate them, however digital resources have led to a growing plurality of archives and the practices associated with collecting and curating. This book uses a broad range of case studies which place communities at the heart of this exciting development, to illustrate how their experiences are central to our understanding of this new terrain which challenges traditional histories and the control of knowledge and power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447341949
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	03/26/2020
Series:	Connected Communities
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Simon Popple is Director of Impact and a Senior Lecturer in Photography and Digital Culture at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds.

Andrew Prescott is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow.

Daniel H. Mutibwa is Assistant Professor in Creative Industries and Digital Culture at the University of Nottingham, UK Campus.

Table of Contents

List of figures, tables and boxes vii

Notes on contributors ix

Acknowledgements xvii

Series editors' foreword xix

1 Community archives and the creation of living knowledge Simon Popple Daniel H. Mutibwa Andrew Prescott 1

2 Disorderly conduct: the community in the archive Simon Popple 19

Part I Storytelling, co-curation and community archives

3 BBC Pebble Mill: issues around collaborative community online archives - a case study of the Pebble Mill Project Vanessa Jackson 41

4 New island stories: heritage, archives, the digital environment and community regeneration Paul R.J. Duffy 53

5 Memories on film: public archive images and participatory film-making with people with dementia Andrea Capstick Katherine Ludwin 65

6 Doing-It-Together: citizen archivists and the online environment Jez Collins 79

7 'I've never told anybody that before': the virtual archive and collaborative spaces of knowledge production Tom Jackson 93

Part II Citizens, archives and the institution

8 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 109

9 Enhancing museum visits through the creation of data visualisation to support the recording and sharing of experience Ian Gwilt Patrick McEntaggart Melanie Levick-Parkin Jonathan Wood 123

10 The digital citizen: working upstream of digital and broadcast archive developments Kim Hammond George Revill Joe Smith 139

11 Institutional collaboration in the creation of digital linguistic resources: the case of the British Telecom correspondence corpus Ralph Morton Hilary Nesi 153

Part III Disruptive and counter voices: the community turn

12 Mainstream institutional collecting of anti-institutional archives: opportunities and challenges Anna Sexton 167

13 Silver hair, silver tongues, silver screen: recollection, reflection and representation through digital storytelling with older people Tricia Jenkins Pip Hardy 181

14 'Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey' LGBT histories: community archives as boundary objects Niamh Moore 195

15 Locating the Black archive Hannah Ishmael Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski Kelly Foster Etienne Joseph Nathan E. Richards 207

16 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 Liz Tilley 219

17 Archive Utopias: linking collaborative histories to local democracy Lianne Brigham Richard Brigham Helen Graham Victoria Hoyle 235

18 Community archives and the health of the internet Andrew Prescott 251

Index 269

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"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