Archive Accelerator
Empowering archivists to preserve their digital assets
The Accelerator
The Archive Accelerator is a free remote learning program that typically includes both recorded lectures and real-time labs. The goal during our Archive Accelerator program is to empower you to protect data from neglect and manipulation.
Whether you’re collecting oral histories, cherished photographs, or documents for accountability, we’ll help you understand and evaluate the role of decentralization and cryptography in your preservation strategy.
Three cohorts have participated in these multi-day bootcamps, with future sessions to be scheduled. Interested in attending?
Fellowship Benefits
- Understanding Challenges in Storing Digital Assets
- Authenticity: Hashing, Content Addressing, and Registration
- Hands-on practice with Decentralized Storage Systems
- Key Concepts and Terminology
- Traditional Web3 Storage Solutions
- Privacy and Encryption
During the accelerator, students will interact with other participants in their cohort and be given space to ask questions, experiment, and discuss concerns and values with respect to data storage.
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FAQs
In many communities, our shared memories are at risk every day. Trust has been eroded by disinformation campaigns. Authenticity has been obscured by artificial intelligence. Cultural heritage can be lost due to hardware failure, media obsolescence, human error, malicious attacks, natural disasters, and economic failures.
The Archive Accelerator is designed for organizations that are interested in exploring decentralized storage solutions, either to switch from or supplement their existing data storage. Participants should have a specific set of data or assets in mind (types of files, size of collection, etc.).
Cohorts can be customized, but often preference is given to participants from community-based and community-led archives who can fully commit to the program and have not previously participated. You do not need a formal organizational status or affiliation, but must be able to demonstrate a commitment to preservation.
The total required commitment is ten hours (4 hours of async lectures + 6 hours of live lab).
You will need a device to watch and a stable internet connection, but there is no other required equipment. Participants are expected to engage during lab sessions, should be willing to share experiences and challenges with cohort peers, and encouraged but not required to join on camera.
As an academic research lab (co-founded by Stanford University and the USC Shoah Foundation), we don’t endorse any services – we equip you to make your own decisions.
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