Accessing Memory: Preparing a Digital Archive for Vanport Mosaic
Vanport Mosaic is a community archive that preserves memories related to life in Vanport, Oregon, the flood that destroyed the city, and the reverberating legacies of displacement, discrimination, resistance, and resilience that followed. This project addresses Vanport Mosaic’s need to make its content available online by developing a rights and usage policy, designing a metadata schema, and populating descriptive metadata for the collection’s oral history interviews to increase discoverability. Through this work, the marginalized histories in this collection will become discoverable and accessible to the public, making them available to educate, inspire, and advocate for change.
Project sponsored by: Vanport Mosaic
Project participants:
Kris Lang
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