This toolkit is 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. No archiving knowledge or experience is required to use it.
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. This includes records created in fieldwork as well as those created in a more formal office setting.
This toolkit 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: see the ‘Other useful toolkits’ section for other related and useful guides, some of which were referred to in the creation of this toolkit. It was also created in consultation with humanitarian organisations and the University of Manchester Library Special Collections department.
We are currently accepting feedback on this version of the toolkit. Please use the feedback form at the end of the current version linked above to add comments.