Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities Hosts Community Digitization Day

Nashville Sites and Nashville Queer History, in a collaborative project funded by the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Telling the Full History Preservation Fund, hosted a Community Digitization Day on Saturday, October 15 at the Vanderbilt University Center for Digital Humanities. Members of Nashville’s LGBTQ+ community shared their stories and materials to the digital archive (www.nashvillequeerhistory.org/archive).

“Much of the material culture related to Nashville’s LGBTQ+ history does not exist in any local archive or library institution, so we are trying to change that with the Community Digitization Day,” explained Sarah Calise, founder and director of Nashville Queer History. Other partners include the Vanderbilt University Center for Digital Humanities, Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, and the Vanderbilt University Digital Commons.

Nashville Queer History is a community partner of the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation. Learn more at www.nashvillequeerhistory.org. Nashville Sites is a program of the Metropolitan Historical Commission Foundation. Learn more at www.nashvillesites.org.