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DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit

@digitalarc.bsky.social

DigitalArc provides approaches to organizing, collecting and publishing community histories. More than platforms for publishing stories and processes for capturing stories, DigitalArc focuses on the people who contribute their stories.

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DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit@digitalarc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Big thanks to @acls1919.bsky.social's Digital Justice grant for supporting DigitalArc and giving us the space to publish one of what we hope will be a few more articles/presentations focusing on the DigitalArc toolkit & platform.

In the Library with the Lead Pipe@libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Operationalizing Minimal Computing Values Through Shared Computing-Platform Development: A Case Study of DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher by Kalani Craig,Michelle Dalmau and Sean Purcell www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2026/digital...

In Brief: This article explores how minimal computing principles guided the parallel web development of two related but distinct publishing platforms, DigitalArc and Opaque Publisher. DigitalArc, a community-driven digital archive and exhibit platform, was developed in response to principles governing post-custodial archiving, taking it one step further to ensure communities maintain ownership of their materials and their digital artifacts. The Opaque Publisher, originally developed in support of a born-digital dissertation, adapts DigitalArc to support refusal theory for scholars who have to negotiate the tensions between using unethically obtained evidence in support of their research with moral objections to a lack of informed consent. At first glance, the use cases for each platform seem different, but both are providing mechanisms for individuals-by-proxy and communities to assert control over how their respective stories are shared.
DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit@digitalarc.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We back our commitment to community autonomy over their stories through six core values: community ownership, scaffolded learning, equity, sustainability, transparency, and a close attention to everyday histories. Read our complete list on our website: digitalarcplatform.github.io/values/

DigitalArc Values

A collective storytelling and community archiving toolkit for planning community-archive events and hosting community archives online.

digitalarcplatform.github.io

DigitalArc: Community Archiving Toolkit@digitalarc.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Hi, Bluesky, we are DigitalArc! 👋 Funded by @acls1919, we advance community-led archiving projects in the Midwest, offering communities options for exhibiting & managing their own stories. We believe communities, not just institutions, should decide how things appear in the historical record.