Archive as Pedagogy: Oral History and a Journal of the Plague Year

Jason M Kelly,John Horan

doi:10.1177/1550190620981029

Abstract

In March 2020, the COVID-19 Oral History Project, based at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), teamed up with A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 (JOTPY), based at Arizona State University to create and curate a series of oral histories focused on the lived experience of the pandemic. Among the results of this collaboration has been a focus on research-based pedagogy and learning for undergraduate students, graduate students, and the public at large. This pedagogical emphasis has both shaped the archive and has been shaped by the process of developing the archive.

Highlights

In the weeks and months that followed the COVID-19 outbreak, scholars across the United States began organizing rapid response collecting initiatives
JOTPY, established at Arizona State University, is a rapid response collecting project dedicated to archiving digital objects that reflect the day-to-day life of COVID-19 around the globe
JOTPY had relatively few oral histories, so they agreed that COVID-19 Oral History Project (C19OH) would lead the collecting and curatorial efforts related to oral history for JOTPY

Summary

Curatorial notes Date submitted

Useful for meme and social media threads, identifying where it originated w/in the social media realm, or even on what type of device the materials were encountered. A link to the World Wide Web when a URL is the object of the contribution, or when there are external references to the specific object Each course or event where collecting happens receives this specific identifier The institution that hosts or organizes a course or event where items are being collected Related resources in the collection. Examples: Contributions related to course themes; photographs related to oral history. Museum or collecting institution that owns the object or is the source of the object in the archive. For expression on item page Curator and/or Institution responsible for collecting. Curatorial notes for the needs of oral history. There are common fields in both schemas, which facilitate searches across the archive

Research project

Email address of the interviewer

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