Dominique Taffin (taffin@cg972.fr) of the Archives départementales de la Martinique shares with us their plans in developing Caribbean Archive content.
1.1 An overview of Martinique
1.2 Public history : history as a leisure or as a need?
1.2.1 Searching and teaching history in Martinique from the XIXth c. to present
1.2.2 New practices : Amateurs and general public, genealogy
1.2 Public history : history as a leisure or as a need?
“We were never taught our history” : the “our ancestors, the Gauls” syndrome
1.2.5 New practices : Amateurs and general public, Genealogy
II First responses of Archives to the demand
2.1 Flashback on the history of archives in Martinique
2.1 Flashback on the history of archives in Martinique
2.2 New directions for outreach since 2000
2.2.2 The action plan :
2.3 Outreach programs in education
2.4 Outreach programs for the general public
2.5 Assessment
III New perspectives
3.1 Goals (Purpose and objectives)
3.1.2 Internal objectives
3.2 Merging access strategies to cultural heritage
3.3 A tentative user-friendly approach
As a conclusion
A renewed reflection on our 2002 outreach objectives
network and partnership : a better investigation on the social networks, and now the virtual ones that Facebook etc. have allowed
a deeper impact assessment of our actual audience so as to keep up with priorities of action
An efficient communication
And, above all, keeping from routine!
Reclaiming Memory: how can Caribbean archives contribute?
The rise of historical consciousness
1.1 An overview of Martinique
- 403 000 inhabitants
- A French territory since 1635
- From the colonial status to that of overseas region
- Citizenship since 1848
1.2 Public history : history as a leisure or as a need?
1.2.1 Searching and teaching history in Martinique from the XIXth c. to present
1.2.2 New practices : Amateurs and general public, genealogy
1.2 Public history : history as a leisure or as a need?
“We were never taught our history” : the “our ancestors, the Gauls” syndrome
- Teaching Martinican and Caribbean History at school
- Decolonization, nationalism and identity : the role of history
- The slavery issue
1.2.5 New practices : Amateurs and general public, Genealogy
- First clubs : the “béké” club
- The migrants’ club
- Local clubs : family history, friends of Archives…
II First responses of Archives to the demand
2.1 Flashback on the history of archives in Martinique
- 2.2 New directions for outreach since 2000
- 2.2.1 Knowing more about the audience
- 2.2.2 The action plan
- 2.3 Outreach programs in education
- 2.4 Outreach programs for the general public
- 2.5 Assessing outcomes
2.1 Flashback on the history of archives in Martinique
- Established 1949, building in 1973, extended 1998
- Most old documents kept overseas
- Educational programs since the beginning
- But keeping themselves beside the public debate on history and its public usages
2.2 New directions for outreach since 2000
- 2.2.1 Knowing more about the audience
- Reading-room users
- Visitors
2.2.2 The action plan :
- how to reach new audience and reflect social diversity in the use of archives
- How to address the urgent claims for memory
- How to develop trust and make the Archives the Archives of the people : outreach and donors
2.3 Outreach programs in education
- Meetings with the teachers :
- The 2007 conference on « teaching history in the Caribbean »
- Visits and workshops with schoolchildren
- Publication of educational thematic books
- Indian immigration
- Women
- World War I
2.4 Outreach programs for the general public
- Exhibitions
- Free colored people,
- Catholic church and popular religion…
2.5 Assessment
- Success of the education program
- Improvement of the media image of the Archives
- Exhibitions
- What is left to do :
- Moving from an « elite » audience to a popular audience
- Developing traveling exhibitions
- Conferences : targeting public expectations
III New perspectives
- The Banque numérique des patrimoines martiniquais
- The Martinican cultural Heritage Portal
3.1 Goals (Purpose and objectives)
- 3.1.1 External objectives
- a way to reach our distant public
- a response to the urging demand for direct access to documents and knowledge : an ATM to history and culture?
- reaching a younger audience
- tuning “old world” notion of cultural heritage with a “new world” approach
3.1.2 Internal objectives
- Revising our notion of Archives : resource +services
- Refining the skills of the staff in interacting with the public
- Learning how to work together with people having other skills
3.2 Merging access strategies to cultural heritage
- 3.2.1 Archives, historical landmarks, artworks, untangible heritage altogether in one portal
- 3.2.2 Networking and partnership wanted!
3.3 A tentative user-friendly approach
- Integrating a GIS system
- Easy search and filtered search
- Multilevel approach for different audiences: general public, specialists, education
- Collaborative indexation
As a conclusion
A renewed reflection on our 2002 outreach objectives
network and partnership : a better investigation on the social networks, and now the virtual ones that Facebook etc. have allowed
a deeper impact assessment of our actual audience so as to keep up with priorities of action
An efficient communication
And, above all, keeping from routine!
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