Digital Toolkit
Practical guides, templates and training for people preserving cultural knowledge. Everything the Archive Lab teaches in Accra is written up here, so a family, a community group or a department can document, organize, preserve and share an archive responsibly on its own terms.
Six things an archive asks of you
Pick a category when resources are published. Content will be editable in the CMS.
Resources will appear here
Rita will publish Toolkit guides and templates through the CMS. Until then, enquire at the Archive Lab or join as a member for updates.
The toolkit changes shape for who you are
Signing in opens the member resources and arranges your toolkit around your pathway, with progress and saved guides kept on your Research Desk.
Young Custodian
Students & emerging practitioners.
- Beginner guides and visual activities
- Family photograph documentation
- Archive challenges and progress badges
Custodian
Working creatives, researchers & professionals.
- Digitization guides and metadata templates
- Oral-history and consent resources
- Contribution preparation
Elder Custodian
Seniors & community elders, 60+.
- Share a Memory prompts
- Large-text and audio resources
- Staff-assisted pathways
Institutional
University departments & research centres.
- Collection assessment forms
- Shared team resources
- Lab consultations
Scanning, photography, recording and free consultations, with an archivist beside you.
Read the Foundation's own catalogue records as worked examples of the templates here.
Community archiving workshops and lectures, in the Lab and out in the traditional areas.