Year 2 Research Strands

Written By Jon Voss

Year 2 Working Strands

1. Historypin Platform

Leads: Lynette/Jon

Activities:

  • Determine tech partner

  • Strategy, timing & scope of work

  • Ensuring there is a pathway to decentralized storage

3. Community-Based Archives Collections

Leads: Erin/Bergis

Activities:

  • Identify and work with 5 community-based archives

  • Support them in digitization and planning process

  • Support them in creating 10 collections on Historypin

  • Document needs, processes, issues

  • Walk through decentralized storage MVP and test viability

2. Historypin Preservation Prototype Design

Lead: Jon

Activities:

  • Work with advisors to develop “minimal viable product” based on risk assessment & harm reduction model developed in year 1

  • Draft technical architecture design, requirements and threat models of several options, including IPFS, LOCKSS, and Historypin/Internet Archive APIs

  • Test and refine with community-based archives

4. Education and Dissemination

Lead: Zakiya

Activities:

  • Disseminate Year 1 findings and materials

  • Assist in year 2 writeup and make dissemination plan

  • Organize and host quarterly public calls

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