Key Archival Concepts
According to Kathleen Roe, this is crucial for understanding how and why a record was created and must be conveyed in archival description.
Content and Context
According to Sam Frederick, archives have historically excluded these voices from the historical record.
Indigenous People
This term refers to the ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with people from cultures or belief systems different from one's own in archival work.
Cultural Competency
This online technique allows users to add their own interpretations or perspectives to archival records.
Social Tagging
Kathleen Roe uses the example of a letter from various historical figures to illustrate how this aspect can drastically alter archival interpretation.
Creator's perspective
"Decolonization in the Archives: at the Item Level" was written by this person.
Sam Frederick
This approach to archiving was used to help minorities find culturally-relevant artifacts and tell their own stories
Community Based digital Archiving
Meissner believes this type of input from diverse communities can lead to a fuller understanding of archival materials.
Multiple Voices
This concept, once considered standard practice, is now viewed as obsolete by critical theorists promoting inclusivity.
Objectivity (and Neutrality)
This group created the “Protocols for Native American Archival Materials.”
The First Archivist Circle
The LVEHC provided training in these two services to assist with oral history projects. What are one of these two services.
Audio recorders and transcript auditing
This person wrote “Cultural Competency: A Framework for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Archival Profession in the United States.”
Ellen Engseth
This term refers to the idea that archival records should be described with input from the communities they represent.
Culturally Competent Description
The Protocols allow for editing out offensive language while preserving original names and descriptions to show this historical legacy.
Colonialism
Two demographic groups targeted for inclusion in the LVEHC’s community archive were these.
Black residents and Latina women
Can involve crowdsourcing, multilingualism, and this kind of descriptive practice.
Culturally Conscious Description