DCDC21 | Digital heritage and social inequality
Channel: ResearchLibrariesUK
Date: 05/07/2021

DCDC stands for Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities. It is a cross-sectoral conference, hosted by The National Archives, RLUK and Jisc, that brings together the GLAMA sectors (galleries, libraries, archives, museums and academia) to shine a light on our shared experiences, innovations, interests and concerns. The DCDC21 Conference explored how crisis can act as a catalyst for change within libraries, archives, museums, and cultural organisations. https://dcdcconference.com/

Generous Thinking to Meet Community Needs with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
Laurie Taylor and Hélène Huet, University of Florida

In 2019, over 30 experts came together for an institute exploring digital pedagogies within Caribbean Studies. The international participants delved into digital humanities projects amplifying community narratives across the Caribbean diaspora; low-barrier tools to enable student-instructor co-creation; and efforts to subvert colonialist legacies as we build and describe digital collections. The institute emphasized relationship building, lived experience, empathy, and flexibility as foundational values, grounded in feminist approaches to teaching and technology. This presentation offers a case study of the institute and the collaborative creation and collection of open educational resources related to a digital collection.

LGBTQ+ Memory and Archives: power, community and intersectionality in difficult times
Jordi Padilla-Delgado, Lloret de Mar Municipal Archive Service SAMLM

It's important to evidence how far we are yet in the process of recovering LGBTQ+ presence in archives. Institutional archives have had historically very bad pratices on this topic, and there are a lot of strategies and tools they can learn from activism and community archives. A very small number of national archives has a specific section devoted to queer studies or LGBTQ+ focused research. On the other hand, community archives are developing a huge work from activism, specially on the web. How many different initiatives are there and how they work?