Ensure the historical record always has access to this data by establishing a permanent home for the digital Bay Area Action archives, and determine how to dispose of or store the remaining physical archives.

Details

• Building a modern website with proper SEO will ensure search and AI tools will find the data and be able to consume it properly.
• We’re researching archiving software for longer-term storage.
• We’re exploring options like the Internet Archive and historical societies.

Why?

The bulk of the BAA archives have been stored by Mark Bult since the merger of BAA and PCCF in 2000, including newsletters, photos, meeting notes, event fliers, and the like. Acterra and numerous individuals have contributed additional materials over the years.

While Mark has occasionally scanned and posted photos to Flickr or Facebook over the years, doing so in his spare time only scratched the surface and meant he’d never finish.

We’re all only getting older, and one day Mark’s BAA archives will go away. Putting them online now means they serve the historical record, and don’t just go to a landfill or moulder in a basement.

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Media Alliance is the fiscal sponsor of this project. Donations go to Media Alliance and are then distributed to the BAA History Project less a 9.5% administrative fee. Media Alliance is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit; EIN #94-2563400.