#DPClinic July - Digital Humanitarian Archives Toolkit

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Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) is a five-year research project conducted by a group of interdisciplinary researchers based at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester. The project considers the history of humanitarian medicine as a set of emergency interventions. It seeks to generate significant shifts in understanding humanitarian medicine’s scientific and organisational specificity and role in developing clinical norms, debating ‘rights-based’ approaches to health access, and leading campaigns for access to drugs while deploying bespoke biotechnological tools.

Flora Chatt, archivist for the Humanitarian Archive at the University of Manchester, works closely with this project and has created the Digital Humanitarian Archives Toolkit, aimed at people working in a variety of roles (from executive to operations) at organisations who carry out humanitarian work who are interested in establishing an archive. This toolkit aims to help humanitarian organisations produce sustainable and useful digital archives from the records that they create over the course of their work, and no previous knowledge or experience is required to use it. This includes records created in fieldwork as well as those created in a more formal office setting.

This toolkit, which is currently being circulated as a preliminary version to collect feedback, was written with reference to existing guides, research, toolkits and policies, in particular guidance created by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the UK National Archives. It was also created in consultation with humanitarian organisations and the University of Manchester Library Special Collections department.

At this #DPClinic, Flora will introduce the toolkit, discuss why it is needed and how it can be used. You can access the toolkit in advance here, https://www.dhm.manchester.ac.uk/archiving-toolkit/ The project is still accepting feedback, and your thoughts would be very welcome.

Flora Chatt is the archivist for the Humanitarian Archive at the University of Manchester. She qualified as an archivist in 2022, graduating from the Masters in Archives and Records Management (MARM) course at the University of Liverpool. She has worked in a variety of archives and records management roles, including for the NHS, the General Medical Council and the University of Oxford.

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