Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices

Simon Popple is Director of Impact and a Senior Lecturer in Photography and Digital Culture at the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds.Andrew Prescott is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow.Daniel H. Mutibwa is Assistant Professor in Creative Industries and Digital Culture at the University of Nottingham, UK Campus.

"A testament to the vibrancy, depth, and diversity of collaborative research practices involving archives and archiving in the UK. It examines the challenges of collaboration, but even handedly celebrates the many benefits afforded by such modes of work." Richard Clay, Newcastle University

• Community archives and the creation of living knowledge ~ Simon Popple, Daniel H. Mutibwa and Andrew PrescottDisorderly conduct: the community in the archive ~ Simon PopplePART I: Storytelling, co-curation and community archivesBBC Pebble Mill: issues around collaborative community online archives – a case study of the Pebble Mill Project ~ Vanessa JacksonNew island stories: heritage, archives, the digital environment and community regeneration ~ Paul R.J. DuffyMemories on film: public archive images and participatory film-making with people with dementia ~ Andrea Capstick and Katherine LudwinDoing-It-Together: citizen archivists and the online environment ~ Jez Collins‘I’ve never told anybody that before’: the virtual archive and collaborative spaces of knowledge production ~ Tom JacksonPART II: Citizens, archives and the institutionRising beyond museological practice and use: a model for community and museum partnerships working towards modern curatorship in this day and age ~ Daniel H. MutibwaEnhancing museum visits through the creation of data visualisation to support the recording and sharing of experience ~ Ian Gwilt, Patrick McEntaggart, Melanie Levick-Parkin and Jonathan WoodThe digital citizen: working upstream of digital and broadcast archive developments ~ Kim Hammond, George Revill and Joe SmithInstitutional collaboration in the creation of digital linguistic resources: the case of the British Telecom correspondence corpus ~ Ralph Morton and Hilary NesiPART III: Disruptive and counter voices: the community turnMainstream institutional collecting of anti-institutional archives: opportunities and challenges ~ Anna SextonSilver hair, silver tongues, silver screen: recollection, reflection and representation through digital storytelling with older people ~ Tricia Jenkins and Pip Hardy‘Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey’ LGBT histories: community 195 archives as boundary objects ~ Niamh MooreLocating the Black archive ~ Hannah Ishmael, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Kelly Foster, Etienne Joseph and Nathan E. RichardsThe public and the relational: the collaborative practices of the Inclusive Archive of Learning Disability History ~ Helen Graham, Victoria Green, Kassie Headon, Nigel Ingham, Sue Ledger, Andy Minnion, Row Richards and Liz TilleyArchive utopias: linking collaborative histories to local democracy ~ Lianne Brigham, Richard Brigham, Helen Graham and Victoria HoyleCommunity archives and the health of the internet ~ Andrew Prescott