Hello! 👋 If you are looking for some guidance on all the processes behind creating and managing a digital collection, you are in the right place! This repository aims to gather all information about digital cultural preservation, creating an open access guideline that you can copy, replicate, reproduce, discuss, criticize, frame and put on your all, cut in half and glue it together, and/or improve by contributing to it! All content in this repository is made available under the CC0 license, therefore, you don't even need to credit me, or notify me if you end up using it (but I strongly encourage you to at least tell me about your experiences, I would love to know more)!
Its objective is creating a network of open access enthusiasts to debate, create and enforce open access policies. By documenting experiences with one of Tainacan's main partners, Museu do Índio, in experimenting different approaches to make their collections and knowledge available in both a Tainacan instance of theirs and open knowledge projects such as Wikimedia's, I aim to identify common work paths and propose ways to potentialize the sharing of cultural objects with minimal rework utilizing open tools and widely accepted standards.
I am a junior researcher on collaboration and social management of digital collections and a wikimedian-in-residence based on the Laboratory of Participative Public Policies (L3P), currently associated with MediaLab/UFG — a laboratory of interactive media from the Federal University of Goiás, one of the biggest Brazilian public universities. I am also one of the open leaders participating from Round 6 of Mozilla Open Leaders as a part of their Cohort C.
This project is a complementary initiative to Tainacan, a public software funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture and the Brazilian Institute of Museums (IBRAM) which strives for helping any person and institution to manage and publish digital collections in a easy way through WordPress and aims to help hundreds of cultural heritage institutions to create a public and open network of interconnected, interoperable cultural collections.
With content, feedback and awesome discussions! Please read our contribution policy and our roadmap to understand better how to contribute and which tasks are up for grabs. Also, don't forget to read our Code of Conduct as well!