We are working to help individuals and organisations who have digital material.

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). 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.

For more information head to our Connecting Community Archives page.

Developing a digital archive?

Our Connecting Communities webinars aim to give communities the skills and knowledge they need to create sustainable digital archives that will be preserved for future generations.

The recordings for the webinars can be found on our YouTube:

Digital Archiving 101- the what, the why and how to get started

Policy and process as a gateway to a sustainable digital archive

Adapting Digital Standards: Empowering small, volunteer & community groups

Pay Me My Money Down Membership, Grants, and Other Funding Streams

Resources

Scottish Community Archives Toolkit: the toolkit has a Digital Records section

Scottish Council on Archives Youtube: Our Youtube channel has recordings of relevant workshops, webinars and training. For example, our recent Digital Know How webinar

Digital preservation for community archives: Guidelines from the Community Archives and Heritage Group

Digital Preservation Coalition: a range of resources including best practice guides

Preserving Digital Collections: Resources from the National Archives