The CAW Collective is comprised of the core organizing members who develop, tend to, scale, and refine the CAW Model and create new tools and workshop modules for under-served collections held by communities that have been historically excluded from the archival record.
Mission
CAW Collective facilitates audiovisual preservation in community held collections, build peer to peer learning as a foundation for long term preservation, promote community networking, develop free resources to scale and share widely, and maintain communication platforms for access to these resources.
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Since 2018, the CAW Collective has completed three national projects with federal support. These projects are: Training-of-Trainers (TOT) program (Institute of Museum and Library Services, RE-85-18-0039-18); Audiovisual Collections Care in Tribal Archives (National Endowment for the Humanities, PE-268832-20); and Assessing and Addressing Digital Readiness for Audiovisual Collections (National Historical Publications and Records Commissions, RJ-103352). Two additional projects, Expanding the Circle of Care for Audiovisual Collections in Tribal Archives (National Endowment for the Humanities, PE-295901) and Advancing Digital Readiness in Diverse Regional Collections (National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (RJ-104949), are currently underway. From 2017-2019, members of CAW Collective led the Smithsonian Institution’s Audiovisual Preservation Readiness Assessment (AVPRA) project, resulting in the establishment of the Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative (AVMPI) the first pan-institutional audiovisual preservation program at the Smithsonian. CAW Collective retains ownership of tools developed for the Smithsonian, adapting them for use in community collections.