Introduction

This article features a video tutorial walkthrough of some considerations and points to consider when beginning your archiving. There is special emphasis on how to maintain and uplift Indigenous ways of knowing through this process and ongoing work.

The following text addresses some of the major points from the tutorial.

Central Themes

Capacity

Capacity relates to both technical capacity, but also your team and its human capacity. Adapting and setting up an archiving system can take time and different expertise. It is important to consider how much time, energy, and actual content in the archive you want to take on when beginning to organize entries.

The Medium

Depending on the medium of each entry and other media in your collection, how you organize and make different entries accessible will vary. Text-based materials may have different needs than more audio-based entries. If collections possess multiple entries that relate to one another (e.g. an original recording in an audio-cassette, a digitized file, and a transcript), then considering the needs of each of these pieces and how to organize them together will be important for you to decide upon as a team.

Scope

Scope also relates to capacity. How much you want to organize and the extent of your project will impact how you want to organize your collections.

Video Tutorial

Please review and watch this video tutorial that walks you through more aspects and suggestions about archives and their frameworks:

Related links for making an inventory and performing condition assessments

Module 2: What is an Inventory?

Module 3: Create a Spreadsheet

Module 7: What is Metadata?

Module 8: Condition Assessments

This video is an introduction into the interesting and active work that is archiving. For more information, to bounce ideas of others, and provide your own suggestions on how to expand on this subject in DiGI materials, please contact the Language Technology Program team:

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