Date & Time

Monday, October 9, 2023, 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM EDT 

Description

Can technology help predominantly white institutions reckon with their racial histories in a just and equitable way? We attempted this with Lived Experiences: Race at Miami University — an online collaborative storytelling project that chronicles the history of racial dynamics at Miami University of Ohio.

Lived Experiences is a media-rich website that brings together oral histories, documentaries and archival documents from and about Black alumni, students, faculty and staff at a predominantly white institution. Our presentation will discuss how the university libraries created this diversity-focused website to showcase people's stories. We will address curatorial, design and technical aspects of the project.

The website design team collaborated closely with the Lived Experiences project team to create an engaging interface focused on storytelling and centering Black experiences, while also supporting a complex data structure and scalability for future expansion of the projects. We will share how our front-end design choices supported these goals. We will also discuss the back-end content management system that will allow us to scale up for future projects, and repurpose the content in other ways such as student-led research or mobile app development.

Type
session
Track
Web strategy, content and accessibility (WSC)
Intended audience
intermediate
Tags
content management systems, content strategy, front-end development, teaching/​education
Delivery
in person, online
Location Name
106B
Shortcode
WSC2