Explore our Learning Pathways
Our learning pathways are designed to guide you through a curated selection of modules that align with your interests and goals. Whether you’re looking to dive into digital archiving, community engagement, decolonial knowledge practices, or technical skills for preserving cultural heritage, these pathways provide a structured approach to help you gain the skills and confidence to make a lasting impact.
Choose a pathway that resonates with you and start your journey toward preserving and sharing the cultural heritage of your community.
- Community-Oriented Pathway
- Oral History and Cultural Preservation Pathway
- Technical Skills Pathway
- Digital Archiving Pathway
- Decolonization and Justice Pathway
- Comprehensive Archiving Pathway
Community-Oriented Pathway
This pathway focuses on empowering and engaging the community in the archiving process. It would be beneficial for community leaders, activists, and individuals interested in preserving local knowledge.
- Community Engagement
- Building community capacity in preservation cultural information
- Decolonial Approaches and Epistemic Justice
- Understanding the frameworks of decolonization, epistemic justice, and Knowledge Commons.
- Legal and Ethical Considerations
- Addressing ethical issues, including local community frameworks for archiving
- Planning for Impact: Monitoring, Evaluating, and Learning
- Evaluation and learning tools for community-based projects.
Oral History and Cultural Preservation Pathway
This pathway would be particularly useful for those focused on oral history and cultural heritage preservation through community engagement.
- Oral History in Practice: Interview to Archive
- Key concepts, practices, and techniques for creating and preserving oral histories
- Community Engagement
- Building community capacity in preserving cultural information (relevant for local involvement in oral history)
- Planning for Impact: Monitoring, Evaluating, and Learning
- How to assess the success of oral history projects and ensure community involvement
Technical Skills Pathway
This pathway is ideal for those looking to gain practical, hands-on technical knowledge related to archiving and digitization.
- Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials
- Planning, workflows, imaging methods, and collaboration
- Introduction to Digital Archives
- Key concepts and technologies in digital archives
- Introduction to Metadata Practices
- Understanding metadata standards and software tools for digital archiving
- Introduction to Audiovisual Archives
- Navigating the complexities of audiovisual archiving and digitization
- Planning for Impact: Monitoring, Evaluating, and Learning
- Evaluation and learning tools for community-based projects.
Digital Archiving Pathway
This pathway is designed for anyone interested in exploring digital archiving, regardless of technical or archival background. Learn how to preserve and share your community’s cultural heritage through digitization, metadata management, and audiovisual archiving.
- Introduction to Digital Archives
- Fundamental knowledge of digital archiving practices
- Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials
- Technical workflow and tools for digitizing materials
- Introduction to Metadata Practices
- Creating, managing, and utilizing metadata to ensure discoverability and preservation
- Introduction to Audiovisual Archives
- A more in-depth look at digitizing analog audiovisual media
Decolonization and Justice Pathway
For participants with a focus on addressing structural inequities, this pathway provides frameworks for considering social justice and indigenous knowledge in archiving.
- Decolonial Approaches and Epistemic Justice
- Theories and practice of decolonization and epistemic justice in the context of archives
- Legal and Ethical Considerations/Frameworks
- How to incorporate local community ethical standards into archival practices
- Community Engagement
- Ensuring that marginalized voices and perspectives are included in the archiving process
Comprehensive Archiving Pathway
For someone wanting a well-rounded understanding of the entire archival process, from community engagement to technical skills.
- Oral History in Practice: Interview to Archive
- Documenting and preserving community stories
- Community Engagement
- Ensuring local ownership and inclusion in the project
- Introduction to Digital Archives
- Bridging the gap between traditional and digital archiving
- Introduction to Metadata Practices
- Organizing and ensuring discoverability of archived materials
- Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials
- Technical aspects of digitizing and preserving cultural items
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