Editing Digitization (section)

== Digitizing marginalized voices ==
Digitization can be used to highlight voices of historically marginalized peoples and add them to the greater body of knowledge. Many projects, some community archives created by members of those groups, are doing this in a way that supports the people, values their input and collaboration, and gives them a sense of ownership of the collection.<ref name=":52">Manzuch, Z. (2017). Ethical issues in digitization of cultural heritage. ''Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, 4(''2), article 4. http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol4/iss2/4</ref><ref name=":822"/> Examples of projects are Gi-gikinomaage-min and the [[South Asian American Digital Archive]] (SAADA).

=== Gi-gikinomaage-min ===
Gi-gikinomaage-min is [[Ojibwe language|Anishinaabemowin]] for "We are all teachers" and its main purpose is "to document the history of Native Americans in Grand Rapids, Michigan."<ref name=":3">{{cite journal | doi=10.1080/01462679.2017.1344597 | title=We Are All Teachers: A Collaborative Approach to Digital Collection Development | year=2017 | last1=Shell-Weiss | first1=Melanie | last2=Benefiel | first2=Annie | last3=McKee | first3=Kimberly | journal=Collection Management | volume=42 | issue=3–4 | pages=317–337 | s2cid=196044884 | doi-access=free }}</ref> It combines new audio and video oral histories with digitized flyers, posters, and newsletters from [[Grand Valley State University]]'s analog collections.<ref name=":3" /> Although not entirely a newly digitized project, what was created also added item-level metadata to enhance context. At the start, collaboration between several university departments and the Native American population was deemed important and remained strong throughout the project.<ref name=":3" />

=== SAADA ===
The [[South Asian American Digital Archive]] (SAADA) has no physical building, is entirely digital and everything is handled by volunteers.<ref name=":4">{{cite journal | doi=10.1002/meet.2014.14505101027 | title=Community-centered collecting: Finding out what communities want from community archives | year=2014 | last1=Caswell | first1=Michelle | journal=Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | volume=51 | pages=1–9 | s2cid=52004250 | url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rz7t71t }}</ref> This archive was started by Michelle Caswell and Samip Mallick and collects a broad variety of materials "created by or about people residing in the United States who trace their&nbsp; heritage to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the many South Asian diaspora communities across the globe."<ref name=":4" /> (Caswell, 2015, 2). The collection of digitized items includes private, government, and university held materials.<ref name=":4" />

=== Black Campus Movement Collection (BCM) ===
[[Kent State University]] began its BCM collection when it acquired the papers of African American alumnus Lafayette Tolliver, which included about 1,000 photographs that chronicled the black student experience at Kent State from 1968-1971.<ref name=":822" /> The collection continues to add materials from the 1960s up to and including the current student body and several oral histories have been added since it debuted.<ref name=":822" /> When digitizing the items, it was necessary to work with alumni to create descriptions for the images. This collaboration created changes in local controlled vocabularies the libraries used to create metadata for the images.<ref name=":822" />