The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913

Author(s): Hitchcock, T. Shoemaker, R. Emsley, C. Howard, S. & McLaughlin, J. et al.
Date: 2012
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Citation: Hitchcock, T., Shoemaker, R., Emsley, C., Howard, S., & McLaughlin, J. et al. (2012). The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court.

 

Inland Empire Memories

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Citation: Inland Empire Memories. http://www.inlandempirememories.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive). Considering alternative histories and narratives.
Annotation: Inland Empire Memories is an alliance of libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organizations dedicated to identifying, preserving, interpreting, and sharing the rich cultural legacies of diverse communities in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, a geographical region also known as Inland Southern California.

 

GU272 Memory Project

Author(s): New England Historic Genealogical Society
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Citation: New England Historic Genealogical Society. GU272 Memory Project. https://gu272.americanancestors.org/.
Section on webpage: Decolonizing Archives, Digitized Collections, and Digital Humanities
Tenets: Concern with materiality (bodies, labor, not just virtual and discursive).
Annotation: In 1838, Maryland’s Jesuit priests sold hundreds of men, women, and children to Southern plantations to raise money for the construction of Georgetown University. This site may be used to search for an ancestor and to hear the stories of the more than 8,000 descendants of the enslaved, located through genealogical research.

 

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.