THE ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVIST NEWSLETTER
FIRST EDITION
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What does this project do?
At The AAC, we are:
collecting documents from public news and government websites and archives that are pertinent to all areas of research and current events
downloading the files to multiple local devices, external hard drives, cloud storage
backing up and encrypting these files for preservation
creating a public access database with these files
in the process of making a website to publish all these public access documents through an independently created and curated database
What do we need assistance with?
Website creation
Document organization, metadata creation, copyright checks, and archival tech work (custom archival schematic will be provided by Alexis with easy to follow instructions)
Saving articles about current events and submitting them to us for preservation
Organizing and archiving those files in a database
Securing grants and funding the make this an even larger, more accessible archive