Collection 10-177 - COVID-19 Telling Her-Stories collection / Collection COVID-19 Elle, ses histories

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COVID-19 Telling Her-Stories collection / Collection COVID-19 Elle, ses histories

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CA ON0034 10-177

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(2020-)

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Telling her-stories in Canada: Documenting COVID-19 in your voice
The University of Ottawa Library is working on a small scale pilot project to build a unique and special collection around your stories and experiences of and during the COVID-19 pandemic as a woman in Canada. The Library is currently home to the Women’s Archives, an invaluable resource for those examining the history of women in Canada. By actively collecting the stories of how the pandemic has impacted you, we can ensure that the historical record of the pandemic will include your stories, voices, and perspectives.

Why is this important?
History has often overlooked the experience of women. Her-stories have been invisible and oftentimes little is known about the true impact of major events on the lives of women (told from their own perspective). The content you share will let us hear your voice and share your experience with others now and in the future. Through your stories, we can understand your successes, struggles, happiness, and disappointments as well as how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted you, for example, in terms of economics, health, career, unpaid care work, and domestic violence, etc.

Women throughout Canada will be given the opportunity to upload their content to a platform where it will be captured, preserved, and made available to researchers as part of the Women’s Archives collections at the Library’s Archives and Special Collections unit. Traditionally, archives have passively waited for donors to reach out to them with records for donation, however, in this case, we will actively approach the community for contributions and donors will be able to quickly upload their content directly through a specially designed platform. This approach is currently being implemented by GLAMs across Canada and the U.S. who understand the magnitude of the pandemic and the importance of capturing people’s immediate response. Our team has designed the platform using the open-source web publishing system called Omeka. With the help of our supporters and community of users, we will reach out to our target community of women across the country and from all different backgrounds and experiences. Once content has been uploaded to the platform, it will be reviewed, described, processed for preservation, and made available long-term to those interested in the topic. The content will become part of the Library’s Women’s Archives collections and accessible on the Library’s website and archives collection database.
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Elle raconte ses histoires au Canada : Documenter le COVID-19 par votre voix
La bibliothèque de l'Université d'Ottawa travaille sur un projet pilote à petite échelle visant à constituer une collection unique et spéciale autour de vos récits et expériences de la pandémie de COVID-19 en tant que femme au Canada. La bibliothèque abrite actuellement les Archives des femmes, une ressource inestimable pour ceux qui étudient l'histoire des femmes au Canada. En recueillant activement les récits de l'impact de la pandémie sur vous, nous pouvons nous assurer que les archives historiques de la pandémie incluront vos récits, vos voix et vos points de vue.

Pourquoi est-ce important ?
L'histoire a souvent négligé l'expérience des femmes. Leurs histoires ont été invisibles et on sait souvent peu de choses sur l'impact réel des événements majeurs sur la vie des femmes (raconté de leur propre point de vue). Le contenu que vous partagez nous permettra d'entendre votre voix et de partager votre expérience avec d'autres, aujourd'hui et à l'avenir. Grâce à vos récits, nous pourrons comprendre vos succès, vos luttes, vos joies et vos déceptions, ainsi que l'impact de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur vous, par exemple en termes d'économie, de santé, de carrière, de soins non rémunérés, de violence domestique, etc.

Les femmes de tout le Canada auront la possibilité de télécharger leur contenu sur une plateforme où il sera capturé, préservé et mis à la disposition des chercheurs dans le cadre des collections des Archives des femmes de l'unité Archives et collections spéciales de la Bibliothèque. Traditionnellement, les archives attendent passivement que les donateurs les contactent pour leur proposer des documents à donner. Cependant, dans ce cas, nous approcherons activement la communauté pour obtenir des contributions et les donateurs pourront rapidement télécharger leur contenu directement via une plateforme spécialement conçue à cet effet. Cette approche est actuellement mise en œuvre par des GLAM au Canada et aux États-Unis qui comprennent l'ampleur de la pandémie et l'importance de recueillir la réaction immédiate des gens. Notre équipe a conçu la plateforme en utilisant le système de publication web open-source appelé Omeka. Avec l'aide de nos partisans et de notre communauté d'utilisateurs, nous atteindrons notre communauté cible de femmes à travers le pays, de tous les milieux et de toutes les expériences. Une fois le contenu téléchargé sur la plateforme, il sera examiné, décrit, traité en vue de sa préservation et mis à la disposition des personnes intéressées par le sujet sur le long terme. Le contenu fera partie des collections des Archives des femmes de la Bibliothèque et sera accessible sur le site web de la Bibliothèque et dans la base de données des collections d'archives.

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The uOttawa Archives and Special Collections has acquired content from women about their experiences of and during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to collect gender-based stories for future understanding and research on the impact of this unprecedented time in recent memory. Women throughout Canada uploaded their content to a specially developed site, where ARCS then accessioned the files to our collections.

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The fonds consists of content submissions from women on their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Submissions are in digital format only in text, image, sound and moving images.
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Le fonds est constitué de documents soumis par des femmes sur leur expérience de la pandémie de COVID-19 au Canada. Les soumissions sont uniquement en format numérique, sous forme de texte, d'image, de son et d'image animée.

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Content is acquired directly from creators through the Omeka website: https://biblio.uottawa.ca/omeka2/her-stories-covid-19/
and the French site: https://biblio.uottawa.ca/omeka2/elle-histoires-covid-19/

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Digital files are submitted individual by each donor on an ongoing basis and renamed.

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Ontario Library Research Cloud (OLRC)

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There are no access restrictions on these materials. All materials are open for research and private study.

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All rights remain with the University of Ottawa Library. Contact Archives and Special Collections for copyright permissions.

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Accruals are ongoing until the COVID-19 Telling Her-Stories project is closed.

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Creation: October 2020

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