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We are inviting four technical advisors to join this research. Technical Advisors will participate alongside our Historypin Research Faculty and Institutional Partner Representatives 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.

Technical Advisors will meet together monthly via Zoom with Shift Collective and Historypin staff, Historypin Research Faculty 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 in late October/early November 2023 to finalize our draft ethical framework document, which is the primary deliverable for 2023. 

We expect the time commitment to be about 4 hours per month on average. Each Technical Advisor 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.

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