Connecting Community Archives

Scottish Council on Archives and Community Archive Heritage Group Scotland are working with Our Heritage Our Stories, a project led by University of Glasgow, part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded programme, Towards a National Collection (TaNC).

Our Heritage, Our Stories

Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people’s national collection is a Discovery Research Project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the Towards a National Collection programme. This programme aims to ‘take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual ‘national collection’ by dissolving barriers between different collections – opening UK heritage to the world’. It is vital that, in working towards such a national collection, proper account is taken of the community (and non-institutional) spaces in which many collections are created, sustained and used. Our Heritage, Our Stories is seeking to do just that.

Find out more on the Our Heritage, Our Stories website.

Events

Together CAHG Scotland and OHOS have been running events to hear voices from the community which will help to inform the research. These events brought together people from community archives and heritage groups to discuss practices, challenges and opportunities from across the sector.

Keep an eye on our Eventbrite page and social media to see upcoming events.

We need your feedback

Please take the time to complete this survey as this is an opportunity for community archive heritage groups to share their experiences of collecting and caring for digital collections. Your comments and ideas will feed into future training and support for community archives caring for digital collections.