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This is a summary of our
brainstorming session held at our first meeting to
try to clarify the structure and activities of our Chapter.
Utilizing a
storyboard technique facilitated by Alan Langmuir, we
started by taking
ideas of structure from our bylaws. We then tried to list
details of who,
what, when, where and why to discover the details. More
work remains,
but we have made a good start.
Each of these areas will require a considerable amount of
work, part of
which must consist of identifying previous work. We do not
want to
reinvent the wheel, an especially apropos cliché.
For example, we are
expecting that the digital archive/web site will be
breaking some new
ground, although there are many existing examples of
structured content
which could be stored within the ultimate system.
How can we accomplish this?
An important aspect of identifying California and West
Coast industrial
archeological sites is prioritization. Some sites and
artifacts are
endangered today, while others are somewhat safer.
We may want to publish "tour guides" documenting IA sites
and tours in
our area as have some other SIA chapters.
Our Chapter should reach out to other historically minded
organizations
to help them understand the value of preserving IA sites
and to IA-related
organizations to help work together to identify and
preserve sites.
We should also establish criteria to decide what kind of
sites are of interest,
what categories there are, etc.
What kinds of activities should we engage in?
The Chapter should identify existing archives of IA
materials, with a focus
on our immediate geographical area. We also want to find
an appropriate
way in which to encourage businesses to save their history,
files, and so on
for future study.
We want to establish a chapter library and archive. Some
thought that we
could do this via a relationship with another organization,
such as the
California Historical Society.
Task force
The task force for coming up with a plan for developing
the digital historic
skills archive and web site is initially composed of Randy
Hees, Jay
McCauley, Tony Meadow, Andy Fahrenwald and Elaine Winters.
Andy
and the other Industrial Living History Consortium members
envision this
becoming a large project, requiring fund raising in order
to support paid
position(s), donations of equipment and so on.
Precedents
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