Collecting Online Quickly:
Forms, Phones, & APIs
 

Community Participation @RRCHNM

September 11 Digital Archive

911digitalarchive.org

Simple Form

+ phone number to record audio

Continue to Collect

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

hurricanearchive.org

Form & Skype #

Flickr  API -> Import

Occupy Archive

occupyarchive.org

Form

Flickr API -> Import

Zotero API -> Import

Sharing Process

Encourage by building

omeka.org

Data that goes in must come out

Others can respond

http://baltimoreuprising2015.org/

Challenges

• Need person willing to be tech lead, but not an expert
• Collecting portal need attention (approvals)
• Slim or no metadata
• Plan for more outreach & collaboration time than the online stuff
• Conflicts between openness, speed, org procedures & structures of collaborating groups

Work Arounds

• Create workflows & procedures for site.
  • A person must be responsible to care for online project
• Everyone needs to let go:
  • Raw archives are okay
  • New procedures req'd for new collections.
  • Listen
• Make time for Face2Face meetings, events.

Online Collecting

Thank You!

Sheila A. Brennan

Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media,
George Mason University

@sherah1918