I’m thinking most right now about ways to invite and encourage the creation of oral histories and other documentary records for the archives by a huge variety of participants while maintaining rigorous professional and scholarly standards in my institution’s practices.  In other words:

How do we strike a balance between making participation appealing and simple while maintaining quality control over the records we’re collecting?

I would really enjoy learning more about the ways other THATCampers have mobilized participants new to oral history and digital archives to produce wonderful contributions.

Hey all, I was thinking that a session on using sites like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to fund an oral history project might be interesting. I don’t know if anyone who’s going to be attending has tried crowdfunding (I haven’t) but I’m interested in thinking as a group about how this might work in practice.