Presentation
Mass. Memories Road Show: A Case Study in Participatory Archiving
Best Practices Exchange 2017
(2017)
Abstract
The Mass. Memories Road Show (MMRS) is a statewide digital history project that documents people, places, and events in Massachusetts history through family photographs and stories. In partnership with teams of local volunteers, the project organized public events to scan family and community photographs and videotape “the stories behind the photographs.” The images are indexed and incorporated into an online educational collection at openarchives.umb.edu. To date, MMRS has organized nearly 50 events throughout Massachusetts, and has nearly 10,000 photographs, stories, and videos available in the online collection. In this 30-minute presentation, MMRS coordinator Carolyn Goldstein and archivist Andrew Elder will outline the program’s methods of collaborating with communities, organizing events to copy images and gather metadata as well as preserving the digital assets and making them accessible through an online platform.
Keywords
- participatory archiving,
- Mass. Memories Road Show
Disciplines
Publication Date
November 8, 2017
Location
Boston, Mass.
Comments
Presentation at 2017 Best Practices Exchange Conference, hosted by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, the JFK Presidential Library, the State Library of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Archives.
Citation Information
Andrew Elder and Carolyn M. Goldstein. "Mass. Memories Road Show: A Case Study in Participatory Archiving" Best Practices Exchange 2017 (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/andrew_elder/23/