Establishment of a social participatory archive of student life: an example of the archive of student life at the University of Zadar

Cilj i svrha su diplomskog rada utvrditi način i sve potrebne faze izrade društvenog, digitalnog arhiva koji trajno čuva elektroničke zapise studentskog života, poštujući pri tome pravila obrade i trajne pohrane gradiva koja se koriste u baštinskim ustanovama, te osobito sve zakonske akte kojima se regulira uporaba osobnih podataka u digitalnom okruženju. Metodologija koja se primijenila u ovom radu jest pregled literature te studija slučaja. Kroz studiju slučaja prikazane su sve etapa rada na uspostavi društvenog participativnog arhiva studentskog života Sveučilišta u Zadru, odnosno etape izrade plana prikupljanja podataka, odabira infrastrukture, prikupljanja, analize i kriterija odabira podataka, oblikovanja metapodataka te izrade arhiva. Studija slučaja izrađena je na odabranom uzorku fotografija koje predstavljaju studentski život Sveučilišta u Zadru zabilježenih u razdoblju od 2002. do 2020. godine. Kao infrastruktura za izradu digitalnog arhiva odabran je informacijski sustav Topoteka koji je nastao u sklopu međunarodne udruge za arhivska istraživanja ICARUS (International Centre for Archival Research). Posebno se kroz studiju slučaja istražila primjenjivost digitalne platforme Topoteka za izradu društvenog arhiva studentskog života.The aim and purpose of the master thesis are to determine the manner and all necessary stages of creating a social, digital archive that permanently preserves electronic records of students life, while respecting the rules of processing and permanent storage of materials used in heritage institutions, and especially all legal acts governing the usage of the personal data in the digital environment. The methodology used in this paper is a review of the literature and a case study. The case study presents all stages of work on the establishment of a social participatory archive of student life at the University of Zadar, ie the stages of developing a data collection plan, infrastructure selection, collection, analysis and data selection criteria, metadata design and the archive creation. The case study was made on a selected sample of photographs representing the student life of the University of Zadar recorded in the period from 2002. to 2020. The Topotheque information system, which was created within the International Center for Archival Research (ICARUS), was chosen as the infrastructure for the creation of the digital archive. In particular, the applicability of the digital platform Topotheque for the creation of a social archive of student life was investigated through a case study