Digital Arctic Community Heritage: For Preservation and Access

为了保护和探索北极的历史、语言和文化，公民必须了解公共档案记录的性质和范围，并为其数字化作出贡献，以便保存和获取。虽然许多社区想要应对这一挑战，但他们往往受到最佳实践和标准、比较经验和可用工具范围的不确定性的制约。尤其是开放源码选项。大多数关于数字档案馆解决方案的论述都集中在大型研究图书馆和国家机构的需求上。该项目旨在为小社区数字档案内容开放源码工具和系统的开发和维护作出独特贡献。该项目首先聚集了来自美国、挪威和加拿大的地方、州、联邦、学术界和非政府利益攸关方，在蒙蒂塞洛举行了一次研讨会，分享对档案数字化工具和案例研究的见解，并共同开发仍未满足的北极档案数字化开源工具的需求。随着北极档案馆的上线，研究团队希望他们的工作将增强泛北极社区的能力，并直接让他们参与进来，更好地了解它们是如何形成的，以及它们在应对当前挑战时是如何相互联系的。

In order to preserve and explore the history, languages and cultures of the Arctic, it is essential that citizens understand the nature and extent of the public archival record and contribute to its digitization, for preservation and access. While many communities want to address this challenge, they are often inhibited by uncertainty on best practices and standards, on comparative experiences, and on the range of available tools ? in particular, open source options. Most discourse on digital archive solutions is centered on the needs of large research libraries and national institutions. This project seeks to make a unique contribution to the development and maintenance of open source tools and systems for digital archival content in small communities. The project begins by gathering a diverse set of local, state, federal, academic and non-governmental stakeholders from the US, Norway and Canada for a workshop at Monticello to share insights on tools and case studies for archive digitization, and to jointly develop the still unmet requirements for open source tools for Arctic archive digitization. As Arctic archives come on line, the research team hopes their work will empower and directly engage the pan-Arctic communities in better understanding how they came to be and how they interrelate with one another in confronting the challenges of the present.