Khmer Rouge Archives

Author(s): Documentation Center of Cambodia
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Citation: Documentation Center of Cambodia. Khmer Rouge Archives. http://dccam.org/khmer-rouge-archives.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Connecting to the personal and to communities outside of academia. Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) is the world’s largest repository of printed documents and other original documentary materials relating to the Democratic Kampuchea regime.

 

Fellow historians and friendly archivists! Since it’s going to be much harder for our seniors to get into local archives for research this fall, I’m making a big list of great digitized manuscript collections. Any favorites I should add?

Author(s): Shulman, P. A.
Date: 8/18/2020
Publication: Twitter
Citation: Shulman, P. A. [@pashulman]. (2020, August 18). Fellow historians and friendly archivists! Since it’s going to be much harder for our seniors to get into local archives for research this fall, I’m making a big list of great digitized manuscript collections. Any favorites I should add? [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/pashulman/status/1295873518672936960.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
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Early Caribbean Digital Archive

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Citation: Early Caribbean Digital Archive. ecda.northeastern.edu/home/about/decolonizing-the-archive/what-we-are-doing/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Connecting to the personal and to communities outside of academia. Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive). Considering alternative histories and narratives.
Annotation: The ECDA has two primary related, overarching goals: the first is to uncover and make accessible a literary history of the Caribbean written or related by Black, enslaved, Creole, indigenous, and/or colonized people. The second is to enable users to understand the colonial nature of the archive and to use the digital archive as a site of revision and remix for exploring ways to decolonize the archive.

 

Slave Voyages

Author(s): Emory University
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Citation: Emory University. Slave Voyages. https://www.slavevoyages.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them, as well as interactive maps, timelines, and animations.

 

A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland

Author(s): A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland
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Citation: A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland. https://www.archivingpoliceviolence.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support.
Annotation: A People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland collects, preserves, and shares the stories, memories, and accounts of police violence as experienced or observed by Cleveland citizens.

 

Mapping and Reconstructing Mau Mau Camps around Kenya

Author(s): African Digital Heritage
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Citation: African Digital Heritage. “Mapping and Reconstructing Mau Mau Camps around Kenya”. http://africandigitalheritage.org/reconstructing-mau-mau-camps/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Building equity, trust, mutual respect, and support.
Annotation: A digital reconstructions of former detention camps around Kenya, interviews with Mau Mau veterans and survivors of the Emergency period in Kenya, and other digital assets to help interpret, understand and visualize this past.

 

Acknowledging Archival Silences, Gaps, Omissions

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Citation: Acknowledging Archival Silences, Gaps, Omissions. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YKndOKpUECMR_P1ObBq3f8v_-YlfuGxC9qjlBD8C-dY/edit.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Using technology intentionally to build communities and enhance learning.
Annotation: Digital archives; digitized collections; DH projects that explicitly acknowledge and discuss archival silences in their content.