Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) seeks to share skills, knowledge, and resources to empower under-resourced, community-held audiovisual collections to increase visibility and support shared authority. The acronym CAW is used interchangeably to describe the workshop training model and the group of people who developed and continue to deliver the model since 2011.
CAW Collective
CAW Collective is comprised of the core organizing members—trained archivists with significant experience in the field—who develop, refine, and scale the CAW model. The mission of CAW Collective is to use the CAW model to facilitate grassroots audiovisual preservation, build peer-to-peer learning as a foundation for long-term access, promote community networking, and develop free resources to scale and share widely.
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The CAW model
The mission of the CAW model is to jumpstart audiovisual preservation in community-held collections by bringing together audiovisual archivists and community members to work collaboratively to inspect and inventory a collection- providing the necessary groundwork for its preservation. It is an open source workshop training module and event, and accompanying tools and resources are available to all through www.communityarchiving.org.
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