Participatory Archives

Edward Benoit, III is assistant professor at the School of Library & Information Science at Louisiana State University. He is the coordinator of both the archival studies and cultural heritage resource management MLIS specializations. He received an MA in history, MLIS, and PhD in information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses on participatory and community archives, nontraditional archival materials, and archival education. He is the founder and director of the Virtual Footlocker Project that examines the personal archiving habits of the 21st century soldier in an effort to develop new digital capture and preservation technologies to support their needs. Alexandra Eveleigh is Collections Information Manager at Wellcome Collection in London, where her role complements her research interests in user experiences and digital technologies in library, archive and museum contexts. From 2014 to 2016, she held academic positions in Information Studies and Digital Humanities at University College London and the University of Westminster respectively, following her PhD research at UCL in collaboration with The National Archives entitled ‘Crowding Out the Archivist? Implications of Online User Participation for Archival Theory and Practice’ (2015). Prior to this, she worked in both university and local government archives in the United Kingdom, and was awarded a 2008 Winston Churchill Fellowship in connection to her work on born digital archives.

Contents
1 Defining and framing participatory archives in archival science Edward Benoit III and Alexandra Eveleigh
2 Social tagging and commenting in participatory archives: a critical literature review Alex H. Poole
3 Social tagging and commenting: theoretical perspectives Ina-Maria Jansson and Isto Huvila
4 Project Naming: reconnecting indigenous communities with their histories through archival photographs Beth Greenhorn
5 (Hash)tagging with the users: participatory collection of digital social photography in museums and archives Bente Jensen, Elisabeth Boogh, Kajsa Hartig and Anni Wallenius
6 Engaging curation: a look at the literature on participatory archival transcription Sumayya Ahmed
7 Subtle transformations: increasing participation and access through transcription Lorraine A. Dong
8 Crowdsourcing metadata for time-based media in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Casey Davis Kaufman and Karen Cariani
9 Participatory transcription in Amsterdam and Copenhagen Nelleke van Zeeland and Signe Trolle Gronemann
10 Kickstarting archives: crowdfunding and outreach in the digital age Heather L. Barnes
11 Crowdfunding and the moral economies of community archival work Stacy Wood
12 Acquiring equipment for obsolete media through crowdsourcing Laura Alagna
13 Thinking outside the box: crowdfunding the Peter Mackay Archive Karl Magee
14 Degrees of mediation: a review of the intersectionality between community and participatory archives Edward Benoit III and Ana Roeschley
15 Activist participatory communities in archival contexts: theoretical perspectives Andrew Flinn and Anna Sexton
16 Documenting a social movement in real time: the Preserve the Baltimore Uprising 2015 archive project Jessica Douglas
17 Community partnerships and collection development in the Legacy of Ahmed Project Hannah Niblett and Jennifer Vickers
18 Challenges, opportunities and future directions of participatory archives Edward Benoit III and Alexandra Eveleigh
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