Digital Preservation of Reproductive Health Resources: Archiving the 8th (360G-Wellcome-220151_Z_20_Z)

On 25th May 2018, Irish citizens voted to remove the controversial "8th Amendment" to the Irish Constitution, opening the way for the introduction of legislation governing the termination of pregnancy in the State. This project intends to provide long term preservation and access to the many at-risk archives generated by grassroots women’s reproductive health movements during the campaign. There is no consensus on the best practice for archiving social media posts, which are supported on third party platforms. It has also been argued that archival curation has been skewed towards the dominant culture. As a result, many of the rich archives of reproductive health generated through the referendum campaign are at-risk. This project aims to · Ingest material from the six collaborating organisations for long term preservation in the DRI · develop best practice for archiving social media · create a registry of at-risk reproductive health archives and support further ingest to the DRI · carry out social science research into best practice, ethics and legalities of archiving this material · Provide training and expertise to reproductive health archives in archival best practice · Collect and preserve additional material on the topic from the public