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In the summer of 2017, at the initial gathering organized by the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, a passionate group of scholars and heritage professionals came together to ask the question, <\/span>What is a South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA)?<\/i><\/b> The above mapping on the white board was the collective dream and vision that was successfully carried out shortly after.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In 2022, five years later, the South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA) was created to document the 120+ years of history and heritage of the South Asian Canadian diaspora in Canada. Over the past years, the SACDA team has worked on developing 75 unique multilingual archival collections. These collections speak to the histories, heritage, cultures, and key contributions of South Asian communities in Canada that range from migration and social histories, arts and culture, and labour activism to built environment histories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As we reflect on our work at this juncture in 2024, we are immensely grateful for the following individuals and families who have shared their own and their family and immigration stories and histories with us for all to access on a free and public domain:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We built the following institutional partnerships over time to work collaboratively to develop archival collections, educational resources, and sharing skills and resources to further the documentation of the history and heritage of the South Asian Canadian communities:<\/span><\/p>\n We have had an incredibly talented team that digitized each and every photograph, from family albums to 100+ years old ledgers, and wrote every word of metadata, so that the histories of the South Asian Canadian communities had a presence and voice in the Canadian record.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n SACDA team (2020 – 2024)<\/b><\/p>\n SACDA has been wonderfully supported by our generous funders and donors:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Happy International Archives Week! We welcome all to join this collective archival journey! Contact us at <\/span>sacda@ufv.ca<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the summer of 2017, at the initial gathering organized by the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, a passionate group of scholars and heritage professionals came together to ask the question, What is a South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA)? The above mapping on the white board was the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":3713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/sasi\/files\/2024\/06\/image2-300x191.png\")
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