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Start Date
10-12-2022 2:00 PM
End Date
10-12-2022 2:45 PM
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Abstract
The Kansas Archive-It Consortium (KAIC) is a statewide organization with members from the Kansas Historical Society, FHSU, ESU, KSU, KU, WSU, and Washburn. Since 2017, KAIC has worked to preserve and make accessible web content that aligns with each member’s collecting areas. During the COVID-19 pandemic, members of KAIC worked together to collectively preserve relevant web content. This initiative demonstrated that KAIC could effectively work together on joint projects. In January 2022, KAIC members approved an initiative to actively collect web content relevant to the LGBTQ+ community within Kansas for the purpose of preserving digital ephemera of the LGBTQ+ experience within the state. This presentation will:
-Discuss the necessity for this type of initiative.
- Identify the scope of the collections.
- Examine challenges for collecting and authoritative methods for presenting these collections.
- Call for members of the Kansas LGBTQ+ community to identify and nominate web content to be preserved as part of this initiative.
Recommended Citation
Downing-Turner, Mary Elizabeth; Church, Michael; and Hutchinson, Crystal, "Documenting the Kansas LGBTQ+ Digital Presence: A new initiative by the Kansas Archive-It Consortium (KAIC)" (2022). Kansas LGBTQ+ Leadership Symposium. 6.
DOI: 10.58809/JBRJ9282
Available at:
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/ks_lgbtq_symposium/presentations/Schedule/6
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Documenting the Kansas LGBTQ+ Digital Presence: A new initiative by the Kansas Archive-It Consortium (KAIC)
The Kansas Archive-It Consortium (KAIC) is a statewide organization with members from the Kansas Historical Society, FHSU, ESU, KSU, KU, WSU, and Washburn. Since 2017, KAIC has worked to preserve and make accessible web content that aligns with each member’s collecting areas. During the COVID-19 pandemic, members of KAIC worked together to collectively preserve relevant web content. This initiative demonstrated that KAIC could effectively work together on joint projects. In January 2022, KAIC members approved an initiative to actively collect web content relevant to the LGBTQ+ community within Kansas for the purpose of preserving digital ephemera of the LGBTQ+ experience within the state. This presentation will:
-Discuss the necessity for this type of initiative.
- Identify the scope of the collections.
- Examine challenges for collecting and authoritative methods for presenting these collections.
- Call for members of the Kansas LGBTQ+ community to identify and nominate web content to be preserved as part of this initiative.
