Building a Digital Asset Management (DAM) Prototype System for Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives (MOBA)
Dr. Cheryl Thompsons, Director of MOBA and The Laboratory for Black Creativity Associate Professor, Performance, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Reem El Asaleh, Director of LED, Associate Professor, Graphic Communications Management, The Creative School, Toronto Metropolitan University
Neal Bilow, Founder and CEO of Terentia
Collaborators
Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives (MOBA) is an Ontario Early Researcher Award-funded
project (2021-26) that has three objectives.
To create a comprehensive inventory of Black Ontarian archival collections
To examine, using storytelling, how archives are used by creative communities
To evaluate, over a five-year period, how we can bridge the knowledge gap between Black archival collections and Black history in the province.
Building a digital asset management system (DAM) prototype system for MOBA objective
To build a prototype DAM that transforms MobaProjects.ca's current digital infrastructure (content management system (CMS) site) into a DAM-enabled site that can store, preserve, and display MOBA's current research data and future archival holdings.
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