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Hi Tess and Joan,
I'm glad to hear you're interested to learn more about Martus. And Nancy, thanks very much for linking to that dialogue. It's a great starting point for a discussion like this, and I would recommend skimming through it, for those who haven't yet. I'll leave some comments...
Thanks for all the additional information about the Guatemalan National Police Archive (AHPN), Collin.
I also want to point out a few more resources related to this important collection. The National Security Archive has published...
There have been a few references made to the Guatemalan National Police Archive here and elsewhere in this dialogue, and I wanted to make sure to post about the role the archive has played in achieving justice there. It has provided irreplaceable and indispensable information that's been used...
Absolutely, Trudy. In South Africa, there is a lot of work to do about collecting and archiving records (predominantly through oral history) that speak to the systemic nature of apartheid, that is petty apartheid, or those aspects of the programme of racial segregation that disenfranchised the...
How do you manage all of the data in the archive? I went to your site, and there is so much interesting information there. B'Tselem's approach seems quite similar to the approach that some of our partners in Burma are using - capturing raw information about human rights violations as they happen...
Great question, Grace.
The two biggest challenges that come to mind have already been raised within the course of the discussion, but I'll take the opportunity to mention them again.
1) The volume of human rights documentation is far too large for any one or a handful of...
Incidentally, both the American University in Cairo and HRDI are archiving the Tahrir Documents site through Archive-It. All versions of the archived site can be viewed here and...
Grace, one of the more intriguing issues that we started musing about recently is how human rights documentation from 'established' sources (and initially created for advocacy, fact-finding, forensic analysis, criminal investigation, outreach, etc.) could be combined with citizen generated...
Great points, James and Yvonne. I would also argue that, in some instances, even when materials have made it to the archive, it is too late, particularly to capture robust descriptive metadata that will provide important context to the materials. The HRDI has found that a post-custodial archival...
Hi Lior
Kudos to you for all that you've accomplished with limited staffing and resources! I believe you actually manage more digital content than we do (we have under 2000 hours of digitized/digital content, not including highly compressed viewing copies that we generate for each video...
All - before we come to the end of the dia;ogue I would love to hear from as many of you as possible:
What are the 2 or 3 biggest challenges / opportunities in the field right now? Are there some specific, concrete ideas and next steps that archivists, human rights groups,...
Hi Mohammad
You mentioned that there were a few other small but promising projects similar to Tahrir Monologues. I'd be interested in knowing more about these other initiatives, if you can tell us more about them.
A couple of grassroots projects that I'm aware of are:
Syrian...
Thanks, James, for so clearly highlighting the issues related to preserving grassroots documentation shared on services such as YouTube.
As you mention, some institutions are involved in preserving this content but may be limited to collecting derivative files and only minimal descriptive...
Both Aileen and Trudy mentioned our ICA Human Rights Working Group Project, the Human Rights Archives directory. We're planning to have a nomination form in place next week, which people may use to suggest archives for inclusion in the directory. We will be looking for (1) archives...
Newcomers reading this dialogue may find useful the newsletters released by the International Council on Archives Human Rights Working Group/UNESCO, which are compiled by Trudy Peterson (also a participant on this dialogue). I...
I agree with you : it is essential to make post-conflict governments awareness of rebuilding archives...
There is also a project of creation of a truth commission and many NGO's took initiatives and...
I think Tessa is actually working on collecting HR thesauri at the moment...?
Yes, I am! I'll circulate to the Human Rights and Archives listserve when finished (...
Hi Collin
I'm very interested in Martus. Wondering about the process and procedures for a worldwide system of security of digital information.
Joan
Joan Edenburg
Archivist Peacebrigades International
Smaller NGOs managing their own archives and with limited resources at their disposal, might find useful a freely available online tool called the Parallel Archive (PA) that we developed some years ago. Individual scholars...
The use of CDs to distribute content is simply one element of a dissemination strategy but the advantage is that they cost less to produce to print and can be sent to NGOs, schools, libraries, etc, where there may be public access to shared computers, irrespective of internet connectivity, or...