Guides/Tools for Creating a Community Archive
Getting Started
Guide to starting your community archive and preserving your artifacts
Tools for Digital Archives
Choosing the Right Platform for Your Digital Archive
If you choose WordPress as the platform for your digital archive, they have robust support tools for customizing your site
Documenting the Now, “develops open source tools and community-centered practices that support the ethical collection, use, and preservation of publicly available content shared on web and social media.”
Tools and Resources for Creating Digital Archival Standards
Copyright best practices and oral history resources from UNC’s University Libraries
What is Copyleft?, is a “method for making a program free software and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free software as well”
Examples of Community Archives
The LGBT Community Center National History Archive
NC HB2: A Citizens’ History, documenting experiences after the NC House “mandated “people using restrooms in state facilities must use the bathroom that corresponds with the sex listed on their birth certificates”
Interference Archive, a NYC-based community archive that “explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements”
