Historypin Research Institutional Partners
We’re inviting a select number of Institutional Partners who are committed to supporting community-based archives to join this research to consider what role they can play in a decentralized storage network for public benefit. Institutional Partner Representatives will participate alongside our Historypin Research Faculty and Technical Advisors for a one year term to research and document the potential of distributed storage models, as well as develop an ethical framework within which such models would need to operate in order to benefit small cultural memory organizations. There will be an option to renew for a second year.
Institutional Partner Representatives will meet together monthly via Zoom with Shift Collective and Historypin staff, Technical Advisors and Institutional Partner Representatives to discuss findings and move toward the drafting of an ethical framework and potential technical prototype. We will also be holding a broader public meeting quarterly to share our findings with the field. We will have one in-person meeting in New Orleans on November 7, 2023 to finalize our draft ethical framework document, which is the primary deliverable for 2023.
We expect the voluntary time commitment to be about 2 hours per month on average. Each Institutional Partner Representative will participate in a committee focused on one element of distributed storage and small community-based archives, which may include: needs assessments, environmental impact, community impact, ethical partnerships, or others to be determined together by the faculty. Institutional Partners are expected to cover the cost of Representatives’ time (if necessary), and all expenses to attend the year-end convening. Institutional Partners will have the option to display their logo and support of this project on the project website, along with their own communications (with mutual approval). Additional sponsorship at the $5k and $10k level are available, which will provide travel support to community-based archives attending the in-person convening.
The monthly calls will be on the last Tuesday of the month at Noon Eastern starting in February. The in-person meeting will be in New Orleans, LA on Nov 7, 2023.
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