RDS

AOk. RDS servers.

www.researchdatashare.org is hosted on Linode servers located in Frankfurt, Germany since at the time of installation, those...Read more

Where is this (PECE-supported) archive hosted and what technical services and infrastructure does it depend on? What software and other technologies beyond PECE does it incorporate or interface with?

CfE Parasite Event: After Ethnographic Archiving: Nairobi's RDA

Archives and/as Parasites: Reading Ethnographic Archives

Parasite Series: After Ethnographic Archiving

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AOk. RDS Labor and financial costs.

The server on which RDS sits costs $12.50 USD a month to maintain and run back-ups. I (Angela Okune) pay for this out of my personal funds. I also pay for the domain name on an annual...Read more

What labor (voluntary and paid) and financial support does this archive depend on?

CfE Parasite Event: After Ethnographic Archiving: Nairobi's RDA

Archives and/as Parasites: Reading Ethnographic Archives

AOk. Grounds for working on recollecting Kenya's future

The archiving that RDS seeks to practice is not simply to “save” or “preserve” but primarily to provide grounds for further questions, working with people to take care of the data while also...Read more

What is the archive designed to remember?

CfE Parasite Event: After Ethnographic Archiving: Nairobi's RDA

Archives and/as Parasites: Reading Ethnographic Archives

AOk. Archive stakeholders.

Libraries, archives (including museum collections) who have a long history of concern for the repatriation of cultural heritage artifacts to Kenya;

Who are the stakeholders in this archive? What differences of interests and perspective are likely to be in play? What publics|networks|communities does or could the archive interface with?

CfE Parasite Event: After Ethnographic Archiving: Nairobi's RDA

Archives and/as Parasites: Reading Ethnographic Archives

AOk. Towards Decolonial Knowledge Infrastructures in KE

Yes, definitely. The archive provides the technical scaffolding for articulating ourselves as a community of scholar activists / activist scholars interested in exploring what it might look...Read more

Does this archive aspire to create a public (following John Dewey’s arguments about the need to provoke publics into existence)?

CfE Parasite Event: After Ethnographic Archiving: Nairobi's RDA

Archives and/as Parasites: Reading Ethnographic Archives

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