Archives and Communities SAA-UA

Join us for Episode 3 of Archives and Communities! Today we are speaking with Senior Digital Researcher Mark Bell from the UK National Archives on digital archiving projects. Today's episode focuses in on Archangel, a blockchain initiative to provide immutable storage and data to digital archives using blockchain technology.

The UK National Archives: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Archangel UK: https://www.archangel.ac.uk/

The UK Web Archive: https://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/

The University of Surrey, UK: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/

Additional information mentioned in today's episode:

Check out Victoria Lemieux's work on blockchain technology in archives!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Lemieux

https://blockchain.ubc.ca/profiles/victoria-lemieux

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=D161c1IAAAAJ&hl=en

Join us for Season 3 Episode 2 where we interview David Mize, lead Audiovisual Specialist and Archivist at the Bryant Museum! 

Bryant Museum Website and Contact: 

https://bryantmuseum.com/about/exhibits/

info@bryantmuseum.com



David Mize Contact: 

dmize@ua.edu

Join us for our Season 3 kickoff of Archives and Communities where Trevor Bond and Lotus Norton of Washington State University join Laura Daly to discuss the Mukurtu CMS Project!

The Mukurtu CMS software focuses on outreach and connection with  Indigenous communities in an effort to support indigenous communities  and their digital archives in ways that support and respect their wants  and needs.

CDSC website https://cdsc.libraries.wsu.edu/

Dr. Christen’s publications (and co-authored work) about Mukurtu and related projects https://www.kimchristen.com/publications/

Mukurtu CMS project website https://mukurtu.org/, Showcase https://mukurtu.org/showcase-2/ and Support https://mukurtu.org/support/

Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal https://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu/ and the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) Wetxuuwíitin’ collection https://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu/collection/wetxuuwiitin-formerly-spalding-allen-collection-nez-perce

WSU’s Center for Native American Research and Collaboration https://native.wsu.edu/cnrc/

NSF funded project “Culturally Responsive Indigenous Science: Connecting Land, Language, and Culture” https://cadrek12.org/projects/culturally-responsive-indigenous-science-connecting-land-language-and-culture

Lydia Neuroth tells us about Virginia Untold, a digital project that facilitates access to some of the experiences of enslaved and free black people archived at Library of Virginia in Richmond.  Connect with Virginia Untold here: https://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/aan/ ––––––––– Episode credits Guest: Lydia Neuroth Interviewer: Matthew Hamilton Host: Matthew Hamilton Editor: Bryan Bednarek Podcast Manager: Nick Wantsala  Connect with us on your favorite social media platforms! SAA-UA Twitter: @UAStudentSAA SAA-UA Facebook: @/UAStudentSAA SAA-UA Instagram: @uasaasc SAA-UA Website: https://saaualabama.wordpress.com/

We are pleased to bring you our first student interview where SAA-UA member Gina Collett speaks with Hannah Whelan, a graduate student at UCLA and archivist at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive about her experience working with creative materials emerging from jails and prisons and how they provide important narrative into the lives of incarcerated individuals.

Connect with the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive here: Website: https://www.lacarchive.com/about-0

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Episode credits Guest: Hannah Whelan 

Interviewer: Gina Collett Host: Gina Collett 

Editor: Bryan Bednarek 

Podcast Manager: Nick Wantsala  

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Welcome back to Archives & Communities, the official podcast of the Society of American Archivists Student Chapter at the University of Alabama (SAA-UA). In this episode, SAA-UA Member & Podcast Manager Nick Wantsala speaks with Mariquita "Micki" Davis who co-curator and produced the Pasifika Transmissions Exhibit. This indoor exhibit honors the ancestors’ pieces with works from the 9 indigenous diaspora Pasifika artists featured in the Pasifika Transmissions virtual series.   

Connect with Pasifika Transmissions:  


Website:  www.pieam.org/pasifika-transmissions 
Instagram:  @pieam_arts 
Twitter:  @PIEAM_arts 

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Episode credits:  


Guest: Micki Davis 
Interviewer: Nick Wantsala 
Host: Nick Wantsala 
Editor: Bryan Bednarek  
Podcast Manager: Nick Wantsala  
Music by: Scanglobe, Scott Holmes    



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