Digital Transgender Archive
The Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is an online archive and finding aid for transgender-related materials in digital and physical collections. It provides a single search engine for researchers to locate and use materials from more than sixty international colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and private collections, including materials hosted by the DTA itself.
Contents
The DTA includes born-digital materials, digitized historical materials, and non-digital archives, with a focus on "non-normative gender practices" before the year 2000.{{Cite web |title=Overview |url=https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/overview |access-date=2017-06-28 |website=Digital Transgender Archive |language=en}} The DTA co-locates and provides direct access or links to materials from numerous institutions including The ArQuives, GLBT Historical Society, Leather Archives & Museum, Transgender Oral History Project, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The DTA applies its own metadata schema to all items.{{Cite news |date=2016-09-08 |title=Trans-ing History on the Web: The Digital Transgender Archive |url=https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/trans-ing-history-on-the-web-the-digital-transgender-archive-september-2016/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240718021429/https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/trans-ing-history-on-the-web-the-digital-transgender-archive-september-2016/ |archive-date=2024-07-18 |access-date=2017-06-28 |work=Perspectives on History |publisher=American Historical Association |language=en-US}} The items include newsletters, periodicals, photographs, and zines.
Origins
Planning for the archive began in 2008. The resource was developed in response to several challenges in conducting research on transgender history. Materials documenting transgender history are widely dispersed, and the level of description and access for materials varies widely. Because the term "transgender" is relatively new, materials processed in archives prior to the 1990s may not contain the now widely accepted descriptive term.{{Cite news |last=Syfret |first=Wendy |date=2016-03-01 |title=the first digital transgender archive is a lesson in history, discrimination, relationships, and everyday life |url=https://i-d.co/article/the-first-digital-transgender-archive-is-a-lesson-in-history-discrimination-relationships-and-everyday-life/ |access-date=2025-02-27 |work=i-D |language=en}} The DTA makes available materials that were previously unavailable online or difficult to find in archival collections.{{Cite news |last=Voon |first=Claire |date=2016-03-24 |title=Amassing the World's Largest Digital Transgender Archive |url=https://hyperallergic.com/285786/amassing-the-worlds-largest-digital-transgender-archive/?ref=featured |access-date=2017-06-28 |work=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}
Recognition
In 2017, the DTA received the C.F.W. Coker Award for Archival Description from the Society of American Archivists.{{Cite journal |last=Shepard |first=Nikita |date=2020-10-01 |title=Review: Digital Transgender Archive |url=https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/digital-transgender-archive/release/5 |journal=Reviews in Digital Humanities |language=en |volume=1 |issue=10 |doi=10.21428/3e88f64f.7bede3fd |issn=2766-9297|doi-access=free }}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/ Official website]
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Category:College of the Holy Cross
Category:Transgender organizations in the United States
Category:Archives in the United States
Category:LGBTQ museums and archives