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Digital Community Workspaces: Delivering Impact through Public Library and Archive networks

数字社区工作空间：通过公共图书馆和档案馆网络产生影响

基本信息

批准号：
AH/P005918/1
负责人：
Simon Popple
金额：
$ 10.28万
依托单位：
University of Leeds
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP005918%2F1
关键词：
Digital Community Workspaces Delivering Impact

项目摘要

The current problems created by the diminishing funding of libraries and museums increasingly limit engagement with communities and inhibits collaborative partnerships. The problem is particularly acute in relation to the use and reuse of digital assets- both at an archival and community level- and this project seeks to provide one solution through the provision of the digital resources created as part of the AHRC funded Pararchive project (www.pararchive.com). Those resources have been branded as YARN (http://yarncommunity.com) and are now freely available. YARN provides a collaborative platform on which communities and public sector organisations can work together to help them establish effective digital community workspaces to deliver a range of co-designed impacts that respond to community needs and institutional aspirations. Thus the aim of this application is to work with a range of communities and public library and archive organisations to help them address a series of difficult self-identified issues relating to local history work, genealogy, co-working, publishing, working with disadvantaged and hard to reach audiences, and the use of 'hidden' or degraded digital resources. The project is based on the desire to build on the unintended consequences of our research and broaden community engagement. Follow-on funding would allow us to do this and act on a range of community requests, develop expanding networks and deliver broad social benefit. We are keen to work with new partners to further disseminate our digital platform and expand its application; to that end we have engaged in conversations with a range of providers about how they might use our resources and have sought to understand the nature of their ongoing problems and digital requirements to determine mutually reinforcing outcomes. Consequently, our focus will be on the development of impact through public networks to produce scalable strategies and demonstrate the value of our tools in a range of public facing contexts. We have been delighted by the responses to the prototype of YARN and the inclusion of the platform within a number of recently funded research projects and several ongoing applications that have developed in parallel with our own research. For example, YARN has been included on the recently successful Junction Arts HLF JA40 application for community history (http://junctionarts.org/2015/10/ja40/), as part of the AHRC funded Cultural Value Project Digital Tools in the Service of Difficult Heritage: How Recent Research Can Benefit Museums and their Audiences (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/news/article/4365/new_ahrc-funded_project_digital_tools_in_the_service_of_difficult_heritage_how_recent_research_can_benefit_museums_and_their_audiences ) and the British Academy-funded Leeds Voices- Communicating Superdiversity project(http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20045/leeds_humanities_research_institute/2718/leeds_voices_communicating_superdiversity). The follow-on funding would allow us to develop new collaborative partnerships that will ensure maximum benefits for users and allow them to achieve goals that they would not be in a position to realise for themselves. The four partnerships at the heart of the project allow us to co-develop new impacts directly related to pressing community and institutional need. We want our new partners and user communities to take ownership of the resource and shape it for use within their own contexts and allow them to produce scalable models and proof of concept for its application within their own spheres of practice and creative activity. We believe that this will both stimulate innovative practices and allow us to disseminate new approaches to collaborative working. We also want to facilitate inter-project mentoring and the sharing of best practice so that YARN can act as a means of building cross sector capacity and the basis for sharing impact potential amongst users.

目前的问题是，图书馆和博物馆的资金越来越少，越来越限制了与社区的接触，阻碍了合作伙伴关系。这个问题在数字资产的使用和再利用方面尤其严重——无论是在档案还是社区层面——这个项目试图通过提供作为AHRC资助的Pararchive项目（www.pararchive.com）的一部分创建的数字资源来提供一个解决方案。这些资源被命名为YARN (http://yarncommunity.com)，现在可以免费获得。YARN提供了一个协作平台，社区和公共部门组织可以在此平台上共同努力，帮助他们建立有效的数字社区工作空间，以实现一系列共同设计的影响，响应社区需求和机构愿望。因此，该应用程序的目的是与一系列社区、公共图书馆和档案组织合作，帮助他们解决一系列困难的自我识别问题，这些问题涉及当地历史工作、家谱、合作、出版、与弱势群体和难以接触的受众合作，以及使用“隐藏”或退化的数字资源。该项目是基于我们的研究意想不到的后果和扩大社区参与的愿望。后续资金将使我们能够做到这一点，并根据一系列社区要求采取行动，发展不断扩大的网络，并提供广泛的社会效益。我们渴望与新伙伴合作，进一步推广我们的数码平台，并扩大其应用；为此，我们与一系列供应商进行了对话，讨论他们如何使用我们的资源，并试图了解他们当前问题的性质和数字需求，以确定相辅相成的结果。因此，我们的重点将放在通过公共网络发展影响力上，以制定可扩展的战略，并在一系列面向公众的环境中展示我们工具的价值。我们很高兴看到人们对YARN原型的反应，以及该平台被纳入了一些最近资助的研究项目和几个正在进行的应用程序中，这些应用程序与我们自己的研究同时开发。例如，作为AHRC资助的文化价值项目数字工具服务困难遗产的一部分，YARN已被纳入最近成功的Junction Arts HLF JA40社区历史申请（http://junctionarts.org/2015/10/ja40/）中。最近的研究如何使博物馆及其观众受益（http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/news/article/4365/new_ahrc-funded_project_digital_tools_in_the_service_of_difficult_heritage_how_recent_research_can_benefit_museums_and_their_audiences）和英国学院资助的利兹之声-交流超级多样性项目（http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20045/leeds_humanities_research_institute/2718/leeds_voices_communicating_superdiversity）。后续资金将使我们能够发展新的合作伙伴关系，确保用户获得最大利益，并使他们能够实现自己无法实现的目标。项目核心的四个伙伴关系使我们能够共同开发与紧迫的社区和机构需求直接相关的新影响。我们希望我们的新合作伙伴和用户社区拥有资源，并在他们自己的环境中塑造它，并允许他们在自己的实践和创造性活动领域中为其应用产生可扩展的模型和概念证明。我们相信，这将激发创新实践，并使我们能够传播协作工作的新方法。我们还希望促进项目间的指导和最佳实践的分享，以便YARN可以作为建立跨部门能力的手段和在用户之间分享影响潜力的基础。