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

目前，图书馆和博物馆的资金减少所造成的问题日益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-无论是在档案馆还是在社区一级-这个项目试图通过提供作为澳大利亚人权委员会资助的Pararchive项目（www.pararchive.com）的一部分而创建的数字资源来提供一个解决方案。这些资源已被命名为YARN（http：yarncommunity.com），现已免费提供。YARN提供了一个协作平台，社区和公共部门组织可以在该平台上共同努力，帮助他们建立有效的数字社区工作空间，以提供一系列共同设计的影响，以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和公共图书馆和档案馆组织合作，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。该项目的基础是希望利用我们研究的意想不到的后果并扩大社区参与。后续资金将使我们能够做到这一点，并根据一系列社区请求采取行动，发展不断扩大的网络，并提供广泛的社会效益。我们渴望与新的合作伙伴合作，进一步传播我们的数字平台并扩大其应用;为此，我们与一系列供应商就如何使用我们的资源进行了对话，并试图了解他们持续存在的问题的性质和数字需求，以确定相互加强的结果。因此，我们的重点将是通过公共网络来产生可扩展的战略，并在一系列面向公众的环境中展示我们的工具的价值。我们很高兴对YARN原型的反应，以及该平台被纳入一些最近资助的研究项目和与我们自己的研究并行开发的几个正在进行的应用程序中。例如，YARN已被列入最近成功的Junction Arts HLF JA 40社区历史申请（http：//junctionarts.org/2015/10/ja40/），作为AHRC资助的文化价值项目“为困难遗产服务的数字化工具：最近的研究如何使博物馆及其观众受益”（http：//www.example.com）和英国学院资助的利兹之声-交流超多样性项目（http：//www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20045/leeds_humanities_research_institute/2718/leeds_voices_communicating_superdiversity）的一部分。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。作为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的所有权，并在自己的环境中使用它，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。我们认为，这将促进创新做法，并使我们能够传播新的协作方法。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一种手段，并在用户之间分享影响潜力的基础。

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.