A set of starting point principles for independent, public-interest archive projects.
Principles for Independent Archives
This repository contains some broad, basic goals for an independent archive project and design principles which could help the project achieve them.
See the introductory article at Equivalent Ideas: Approaching Principles for Independent Archives
This is meant to be the start of a conversation. Any kind of rough contribution or idea is very, very welcome.
Contributions could include:
- Leaving a comment on the original article, of any length with a response or thought about what an independent archive should do;
- making pull-requests/issues to add or cut principles;
- suggesting references for more information on individual principles;
- improving the explanations of principles; and/or
- pointing out how wording could be improved/typos etc. .