Partners in History will focus on the collaboration between Chicago State University Archives & Special Collections and the International Society of Sons & Daughters of Slave Ancestry (ISDSA) to digitize ISDSA’s photograph collection of approximately 400 images of formerly enslaved African-Americans. Compelling, uplifting, and diverse stories of life in freedom, told from former slaves' point of view, are also featured. The collection preserves slave genealogy and African-American family history as passed on by survivors, serving as a permanent record to inform scholars and family historians in their quest to interpret the slave experience and understand the effects of its aftermath.
Speaking to partnerships between larger institutions and smaller community organizations to better highlight unknown histories, this session will discuss how these digital collaborations can help fill in gaps in historical narratives of underrepresented populations. Additionally, it will address how metadata elements were used to include and highlight data that does not always fit into metadata schemas, such as Dublin Core, and facilitate discovery, accessibility, and participation.
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