Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive

Pararchive项目旨在创建一个新的开放数字平台，允许用户获取现有的在线档案资源，并将他们自己的电影、照片和蜉蝣结合起来，作为数字叙事和社区研究的一种手段。它将成为在线研究和协作的唯一“首选”空间，面对使用在线档案的迅速发展和经常多样化的机会。与现有的平台不同，它将允许用户在一个地方组织和链接所有在线资源的材料，并作为一个单一的接入点，基于公共档案与直观的讲故事工具的集成，为利用和引导在线社区研究的问题提供了解决方案。它将成为一个由用户研究、共同设计和评估的个人和机构资源的储存库。它将解决与开放数字空间、文化资产的社区使用、自我表现和建立新在线社区的潜力相关的关键问题。它将通过托管内容链接而非数字内容的策略，避免知识产权问题，而知识产权问题曾限制了以往协调和再利用在线材料的尝试。面对日益增长的后稀缺环境，社区在组织和连接资源以及彼此之间遇到了真正的障碍。在这方面，Pararchive是一种至关重要的资源，将免费提供给所有社区。它是管理快速变化的数字遗产景观的一种手段，旨在通过反思培养专业知识、信心和自主权的潜力来建设能力。例如，该平台将提供内容链接、初始叙述线索、主题和地理定位工具，以鼓励连接和社区识别。它将代表现有的和新兴的社区，并将它们与内容提供者社区——档案馆、博物馆、画廊和新闻机构——联系起来。这样的组织对合作参与越来越“开放”的方法可以通过社区主导的研究进行充分的测试。研究人员、创意专业人士和文化机构也可以与社区合作，设计和共同开发新的研究，确保有效和持续的相关性和影响。它将以两种格式存在；一个是中央托管的开放版本，对所有用户免费开放，同时也是社区、教育和公共团体可以用于特定研究目的和自我托管的外卖开源工具。Pararchive项目发展了先前AHRC/BBC资助的关于1984/5年矿工罢工的开放档案研究的主题，该研究着眼于社区如何拥有他们所代表的文化和历史档案，以及他们如何为自己的故事发声。(http://ics.leeds.ac。英国/研究/研究项目/ strike-stories /)。在这项研究和2012年的创意技术实验室项目（http://wearecaper.com/portfolio/leeds-creative-technology-lab/）之后，我们现在想开发这个平台。为了支持Pararchive的发展，BBC和科学博物馆同意提供档案材料和工作人员的专业知识，作为展示协作工作价值的一种手段，并将作为我们的主要机构支持者。我们还将与社区艺术促进者Mad Lab （http://madlab.org.uk/）和四个社区合作伙伴合作。使用迭代协同设计方法，我们将响应式地开发和启动Pararchive。我们的四个社区团体将通过与研究团队、设计师和彼此的持续合作，积极塑造Pararchive，并通过平台开展自己的研究。我们将共同评估并将其作为免费公共资源推出。

The Pararchive project is designed to produce a new open digital platform that will allow users to harvest existing online archival sources and combine their own films, photographs and ephemera as a means of digital storytelling and enabling community research. It will be a single 'go-to' space for online research and collaboration in the face of burgeoning and often diverse opportunities to use online archives. Unlike existing platforms it will allow users to organise and link materials across all online sources in one place and act as a single access point based on the integration of public archives with intuitive storytelling tools providing a solution to the problems of harnessing and channelling online community research. It will be a repository of both personal and institutional resources researched, co-designed and evaluated by its users. It will address crucial issues related to the idea of open digital space, community use of cultural assets, self-representation and the potential to build new online communities. It will avoid the IP issues that have limited previous attempts to co-ordinate and re-use online materials through its strategy of hosting content links rather than digital content. In the face of a growing post-scarcity environment communities are encountering real barriers to organising and connecting to resources and each other. Pararchive represents a vitally important resource in this context and will be freely available to all communities. It is a means of managing the rapidly changing digital heritage landscape and is designed to build capacity through reflecting on the potential for developing expertise, confidence and autonomy.The platform will, for example, provide content links, initial narrative threads and thematic and geo-location tools to encourage connectivity and community identification. It will represent existing and emergent communities and link them with a community of content providers- archives, museums, galleries and news organisations. Such organisations increasingly 'open' approach to collaborative engagement can thus be fully tested by community-led research. Researchers, creative professionals and cultural institutions can also work with communities in the design and co-development of new research that ensures effective and on-going relevance and impact. It will exist in two formats; one a centrally hosted open version free to all users and also as a takeaway open-source tool that community, education and public groups can use for specific research purposes and self-host.The Pararchive project develops themes that emerged from previous AHRC/BBC funded Open Archive research about the 1984/5 Miners' Strike that looked at how communities might take ownership of cultural and historical archives in which they are represented and how they could give voice to their own stories. (http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/research/research-projects/strike-stories/ ). Following this research and a Creative Technology Lab Project in 2012 (http://wearecaper.com/portfolio/leeds-creative-technology-lab/) we now want to develop this platform.To support the development of Pararchive the BBC and Science Museum have agreed to provide access to archival materials and staff expertise as a means of demonstrating the value of collaborative working and will act as our main institutional supporters. We will also be working with a community arts facilitator Mad Lab (http://madlab.org.uk/ ) and four community partners. Using iterative co-design methods we will responsively develop and launch Pararchive. Our four community groups will actively shape Pararchive via sustained collaboration with the research team, the designers and each other and run their own research through the platform. We will then jointly evaluate and launch it as a free public resource.