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DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit @digitalarc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Help us make the @acls1919.bsky.social funded @digitalarc.bsky.social a great resource for community-led archiving by providing your feedback. Open peer review through May 29, 2026: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #CommunityArchive #publichistory

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DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit @digitalarc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Big thanks to @acls1919.bsky.social's Digital Justice grant for supporting DigitalArc and giving us the space to publish one of what we hope will be a few more articles/presentations focusing on the DigitalArc toolkit & platform.

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DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit @digitalarc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

@mdalmau.bsky.social & Vanessa Elias presented “La Casa at Indiana University Bloomington: Creating a Community-Driven Digital Archive in an Institutional Context” at the Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium at #uprrp ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00012355/0...

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DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit @digitalarc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Partners opened GitHub accounts and practiced making their website look like it belonged to their community during the first of our three-part virtual workshop series. We choose to teach GitHub due to its stability, financial accessibility, and ease of use (after training, of course).

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DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit @digitalarc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Midwest community leaders worked toward their digital archiving goals at the DigitalArc In-Person Workshop from May 31-June 1, 2025, in Bloomington, Indiana. The focus on this workshop was community and collections. See event highlights here: digitalarcplatform.github.io/highlights/

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DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit @digitalarc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

We back our commitment to community autonomy over their stories through six core values: community ownership, scaffolded learning, equity, sustainability, transparency, and a close attention to everyday histories. Read our complete list on our website: digitalarcplatform.github.io/values/

digitalarcplatform.github.io

DigitalArc Values

A collective storytelling and community archiving toolkit for planning community-archive events and hosting community archives online.

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DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit @digitalarc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Hi, Bluesky, we are DigitalArc! 👋 Funded by @acls1919, we advance community-led archiving projects in the Midwest, offering communities options for exhibiting & managing their own stories. We believe communities, not just institutions, should decide how things appear in the historical record.

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