Digitization toolkit: a blueprint for egalitarian access to technology in low-resource environments [this project aims to develop an integrated digitization toolkit to allow under-resourced…

Digitization toolkit: a blueprint for egalitarian access to technology in low-resource environments [this project aims to develop an integrated digitization toolkit to allow under-resourced institutions, collectives, and communities to digitize their archival collections at low cost. Building on a decade of community-based digitization work in the global south, we seek level i funding to design and release a prototype of a new generation of tools built on sustainable, up-to-date technologies. We will create an alpha prototype version, test and evaluate the toolkit at the santa barbara mission archive-library (CA), and hold listening sessions to identify a series of potential partners for the project's next stages. The main outputs for this project will be (1) the alpha-level working prototype of the hardware; (2) the alpha-level software to power IT; (3) detailed documentation for dissemination and reuse; and (4) a network of potential traditional and non-traditional archival partners working towards egalitarian access to digitization technologies.]