Documenting COVID-19, [a collaborative document.]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v5tso8spFq6SpW53h2OJULcdRoPEbyI6xpah31kW-H0/edit
[I copied this document into this database on April 9, 2020.]

"Documenting COVID-19

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This is a collaborative document that lists active documentation projects for the COVID-19. In addition there are sections for guides and tools that can be useful for starting documentation projects of your own. All languages are welcome. The goal is to help build a loose network for sharing practices, resources and expertise. Editing is currently open, but please see the Documenting the Now Code of Conduct for guidance on how to contribute to this document.

Projects

These are active projects to collect materials related to the Coronavirus pandemic. Please list in alphabetical order the name of the project and at least one URL for a page that describes it. If you would like to add more detail please feel free.

• #ArxivemlaCovid19 (#DocumentingCovid19): Society of Catalan Archivist-Records Managers  https://arxivers.com/documentingcovid19-tips-for-citizens-archivists/
• Universität Hamburg, Universität Gießen, Universität Bochum, all Germany:

www.coronarchiv.de an online archive as a public history project (Citizen Science)

• Colorado State University: https://lib.colostate.edu/find/contribute-to-the-covid-19-archive/, https://archive-it.org/collections/13783
• A Journal of the Plague Year: an Archive of CoVid19: https://covid19.omeka.net/
• CoronaDiaries: Documenting the everyday lived experiences of a global pandemic (Dr Michael Ward, Swansea University, UK) 

https://es.britsoc.co.uk/coronadiaries-documenting-the-everyday-lived-experiences-of-a-global-pandemic/ and https://www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/news-events/news/2020/04/how-your-coronadiary-could-help-us-understand-more-about-living-through-a-pandemic.php 

• COVID-19 Files: Austin Responds to a Pandemic: https://library.austintexas.gov/covid-19-files 
• COVID-19 Oral History Project: https://sites.google.com/iu.edu/covid-19oralhistoryproject/
• CUNY Distance Learning Archive (Documenting the transition to online instruction at CUNY during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic). https://cdla.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
• DC Public Library Special Collections has around 1 million Twitter records of COVID-19 related material within a 30 mile radius of Washginton, D.C., captured with Social Feed Manager and twarc (https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A237558), and the beginnings of a collection in Archive-It, most of which is not yet public  (https://archive-it.org/collections/13803). Contact [email protected]. 
• Digital Justice Lab at Dartmouth (Wernimont and Stevens) has been collecting social media daily since January. More than 10 million records. No public website to date, but open to collab and sharing. Contact [email protected] 
• The Historic New Orleans Collection: https://www.hnoc.org/publications/first-draft/chronicling-coronavirus-our-effort-document-crisis-starts-you 
• International Center for Photography: (https://www.icp.org/news/icpconcerned-a-forum-for-all-to-document-the-covid-19-pandemic)
• International Internet Preservation Consortium. Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): https://netpreserveblog.wordpress.com/2020/02/13/cdg-collection-novel-coronavirus/ 
• Irvington Historical Society: https://thehudsonindependent.com/irvington-historical-society-requests-personal-stories-during-the-covid-19-crisis/ 
• La Crosse (Wisconsin) Public Library Archives: Documenting Community Voices https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUqdeEvNtnLWpMlgs8lENQD9bahFY7ukcZqnSwdtG7teoR4Q/viewform
• Manitowoc County (Wisconsin) Historical Society, Telling Your Story: Documenting COVID-19 https://www.manitowoccountyhistory.org/telling-covid19 
• Maryland Historical Society: https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/the-maryland-historical-society-wants-to-hear-your-pandemic-story/ 
• Michigan State University: (https://lib.msu.edu/branches/ua/covid19/)
• Monmouth County Historical Association

           https://www.monmouthhistory.org/covid19

• Naper Settlement, Naperville 2020: Pandemic Collecting Initiative https://napersettlement.org/597/Current-Collecting-Initiatives
• National Library of Medicine: Global Health Events Web Archive (Archive-It collection group Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak) NLM blog post: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/03/26/archiving-web-content-on-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19/ . Contact Christie Moffatt ([email protected])
• nCovMemory: https://2019ncovmemory.github.io/nCovMemory/
• Ohio State University (Archive-It): https://archive-it.org/collections/8222?fc=meta_Subject%3ACovid-19 
• Orange County Regional History Center (https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-health-coronavirus-history-center-collecting-photos-docs-20200320-q3rnuvi52zfh5oasdugtzkl57q-story.html)
• Reddit: Coronavirus Subreddit: http://reddit.com/r/coronavirus 
• Schenectady County Historical Society: http://gremsdoolittlelibrary.blogspot.com/2020/03/covid-19-archive-project.html
• Small Businesses and Coronavirus: https://smallbusinesscovid19.omeka.net/ 
• Society of American Archivists Web Archiving Section: (https://webarchivingrt.wordpress.com/)--contact Nicole Greenhouse ([email protected])
• UNC Charlotte: Contribute Your Stories--COVID-19 Outbreak: https://library.uncc.edu/contribute-your-stories-covid-19-outbreak
• University of Cincinnati web archiving on COVID-19’s impact on campus: https://archive-it.org/collections/13197?fc=websiteGroup%3AUC+COVID-19  
• University of Dayton
• Virgin Mary and COVID-19 web archive (Marian Library): https://archive-it.org/collections/8222?fc=meta_Subject%3ACovid-19 
• The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Church web archive: https://archive-it.org/collections/13703
• Contribute primary sources related to Mary (https://udayton.edu/blogs/imri/2020-03-30-documenting-devotion-to-mary-in-troubled-times.php), and UD community (https://udayton.edu/blogs/libraries/2020-03-31-pandemics.php)
• University of Illinois Archives - What’s Your Story? COVID-19 and the University of Illinois Community: https://archives.library.illinois.edu/about-us/initiatives/covid-19/
• University of San Francisco - USF COVID-19 Response Archive Project: https://twitter.com/usfca_scua/status/1248088840444641280 
• University of Utah - Utah COVID-19 Digital Collection: https://lib.utah.edu/services/digital-library/COVID19_digitalcollection
• University of Virginia Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
• Virginia-focused web archive of COVID-19 --contact Emily Bowden ([email protected]) or Dan Cavanaugh ([email protected]) for more information
• We don’t yet have a public collection link, so I’ll share our Webrecorder how-do documentation instead - geared toward new users: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IM3IOq94dD1QRXQT8QYZBzt5K0pqTS90W6vAuzKNSO8/edit?usp=sharing
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, COVID-19 MKE: A Milwaukee Coronavirus Digital Archive https://liblamp.uwm.edu/omeka/covid19mke/
• Vermont Folklife Center, Listening in Place https://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/covid19-updates/listening-in-place
• West Virginia and Regional History Center (WVU Libraries) https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/news-events/wvu-community-covid-19-stories 
• Wisconsin Historical Society, COVID-19 Journal Project
  https://wisconsinhistory.org/records/Article/CS16333
• Wright State University Libraries, Special Collections & Archives: ://www.libraries.wright.edu/community/outofthebox/2020/03/23/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-crisis-document-your-story/https
• Twitter harvests with twarc, for libraries and COVID-19 https://github.com/pbinkley/tweets-libraries-covid19, the transition to online teaching https://github.com/pbinkley/tweets-online-classes-covid19, and the National Emergency Library https://github.com/pbinkley/tweets-national-emergency-library 
• Stitching the Curve: knitting a data visualization of COVID-19 cases in Canada https://docs.google.com/document/d/13UtkoPf3wmiRUP9F_sEqBwAPBHnQUiHI5cHlTMLivsk/edit?ts=5e88b3a6
• Lorain Historical Society (Lorain, Ohio) https://www.lorainhistory.org/new-page-5
• Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center (located in Boston, MA & collecting from Jewish New England communities) https://jewishheritagecenter.org/forthefuture
• BoasBlog, Witnessing Corona: Corona Diaries Project; https://boasblogs.org/witnessingcorona/curare-corona-diaries-project/#disqus_thread

Guides

This is a list of resources & guides that are useful in building a collection. A title and a URL are required, but feel free to add more detail if you think it is useful.

• Society of American Archivists. Documenting in Times of Crisis: A Resource Kit. https://www2.archivists.org/advocacy/documenting-in-times-of-crisis-a-resource-kit 
• Documenting the Now. The Ferguson Principles. https://news.docnow.io/documenting-the-now-ethics-white-paper-43477929ea3e 

ToolsDocNow Tools: https://www.docnow.io/

• Omeka: https://omeka.net 

This list contains tools that you may find useful for creating collections. A name and URL are required, but feel free to add more detail if you think it is useful.

Community Owned Preservation Tools Registry: https://coptr.digipres.org/

• Social Feed Manager: https://go.gwu.edu/sfm
• Twarc: https://github.com/DocNow/twarc (twitter harvesting)
• Webrecorder: https://webrecorder.io 

Additional Reading

• How Can Photographers Capture Human Connection in the Age of Coronavirus (CNN): https://www.cnn.com/style/article/photographers-human-connection-coronavirus/index.html
• Museums Scramble to Document the Pandemic, Even as it Unfolds (NYT): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/arts/design/museums-coronavirus-pandemic-artifacts.html "