Resources

Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video - Resources for recording and preserving video in support of human rights.

Archive-It - Subscription-based web archiving service from the Internet Archive.

Artists’ Studio Archives - Practical strategies for artists, archivists, librarians and curators to collect and preserve artist archives.

CollectiveAccess - Free open-source software for managing and publishing archival collections.

CollectiveAccess Community - User-generated tips, tools, and shared strategies for using CollectiveAccess.

Columbia Center for Oral History Research - Research guides, bibliographies and procedures compiled by the Columbia Center for Oral History Research.

Columbia Oral History Master of Arts - one-year interdisciplinary MA degree training students in oral history method and theory.

Community Archives and Heritage Group - Resources and information about community archives, focused on the UK.

Community Archiving Workshop - Guide for hosting moving image archiving workshops, aimed at smaller organizations.

Culture in Transit - Workflows, standards and best practices for post-custodial and community-based archiving projects.

DCPL Memory Lab Workflows - Instructions for DIY digitization of photographs, negatives, audio cassettes, and videotape.

Diversifying the Digital Historical Record Conference Proceedings - Series of forums focused on community archives, the digital historical record, and the representation of diverse communities. Includes videos of proceedings and white papers.

Documenting the Now - Developing tools and community to support the ethical collection, use, and preservation of social media content.

Exactly - Free application that is easy-to-use for remotely and safely transferring any digital data from a sender to a recipient.

Fixity - Free tool for monitoring and reporting on the integrity of stored data files.

Groundswell’s Oral History & Social Change Bibliography - Bibliography on the praxis of oral history and activism, compiled by Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change.

Guide to Records Management for Lone Arrangers SAA - Instructions for managing the business records of small organizations.

Hindenburg Systems - Audio editing for broadcasters, students, journalists and podcasters.

Identifying and Dismantling White Supremacy in Archives Poster - Graphic representation of a selection of white privileges in archives and action steps for dismantling them.

International Oral History Association - Journal and biannual conference collecting oral history wisdom from around the globe. The next conference will be in Singapore in 2020.

Library of Congress Personal Digital Archiving - Information and instructions about preserving your digital materials, including photos, audio, video, emails, websites, and more.

Library and Information Science Diversity Bibliography - Crowd-sourced bibliography on diversity in libraries and archives.

Mukurtu - Grassroots, open-source platform for managing Indigenous cultural heritage materials, incorporating traditional knowledge paradigms and ethics as a core component.

OHMS: Oral History Metadata Synchronizer - Open-source, web-based application to improve access to oral histories through indexing and transcript synching.

Omeka - Free, open source content management system for cataloging digital assets online, and creating exhibitions.

Oral History Association - New principles, guidelines, values, ethics, and effective best practices by the U.S. oral history association to be released soon.

Oral History Australia - Fees - Guidelines on fees for interviewing and transcription, developed by the Australian oral history association.

Oral History Australia - Ethics - Guidelines on ethical practice for oral historians, developed by the Australian oral history association.

Oral History in the Digital Age - Tools, techniques and critical reflections about collecting, curating, and disseminating oral histories.

Oral History in the Digital Age - Ask Doug - How to Choose Audio Recorder & Microphones.

Oral History in the Liberal Arts - Includes templates, toolkits and tutorials for developing, conducting and archiving oral history projects.

Oral History Society - Getting Started - Introductory information about oral history.

Oral History Summer School - Training program to help students from varied fields make use of oral history as an ethical interview practice in their lives and work.

Queens Memory Workflows - Workflows, standards and best practices for post-custodial and community-based archiving and oral history projects.

Shopes, Linda. “A Very Selected Oral History Bibliography” - Manuals, articles and resources compiled by oral historian Linda Shopes.

Sustainable Futures - Collection of articles about building financial and organizational sustainability in community archives.

Traditional Knowledge Labels - Tool for Indigenous communities to add existing local protocols for access and use to recorded cultural heritage that is digitally circulating outside community contexts.

Transom - Reviews of audio equipment and tools, how to guides and more.

Webrecorder - Free web archiving service that anyone can use to save web pages.

Zine Librarians Code of Ethics - Ethics for acquiring, managing, preserving, and making accessible zines in a library setting, including public, academic, or special libraries, archives, and basements.