Emerging Technologies for Community Archiving: This video presentation explores how emerging technologies, such as the web, apps, and online platforms, support community archiving practices. For instance, mobile devices now enable easy capture, digitization, and sharing of cultural materials among communities and institutions. Additionally, academics are developing web apps like TalkOver for recording oral histories related to digitized images and OcrMarkup for collaborative editing of historical texts, empowering communities to manage their digital archives effectively. Moreover, online environments such as the Archivists Think Tank Facebook group play a crucial role in facilitating knowledge exchange, offering guidance, and providing support for real-world archiving challenges.  View the video presentation.

Mei-Chen Chen received her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work focuses on historical music recordings from Taiwan, and on cultural policies and local practices related to intangible cultural heritage, particularly in relation to traditional performing arts. She has extensive experience working collaboratively with government agencies and local communities in cultural transmission, preservation, exhibition and research projects in Taiwan. Driven by her research interests and a desire to work in the audiovisual archives, she is pursuing an MLIS degree to further her goals.