The Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Initiative is currently studying how NGOs and archiving institutions collect, manage and preserve digital human rights documentation, including blogs, social media, and video and other media from mobile devices; the project is described in significant depth on The Documentalist, the project’s blog.
Entries from September 2009
September 17, 2009
Human Rights Electronic Evidence Study
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Tags: archives, documentation, human rights, mobile phones, social media, technology
September 9, 2009
Recommended: new book, new blog
I am reading, with great pleasure, Randall Jimerson’s newly published Archives Power: Memory, Accountability and Social Justice (2009; Society of American Archivists). The book addresses the role of archives and archivists in society, and evolving perspectives on their relevance to larger issues of social justice. SAA’s blurb: “Grounded in historical and social theory, [...]
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Tags: archives, archivists, documentation, human rights, social justice, twitter
