News, press, and media coverage of the South Asian Canadian Digital Archive.
Occasionally, at the City of Coquitlam Archives, we get to collaborate with Archives with different mandates than our own. These are welcome opportunities to see how other archives, situated in different environments, operate. This web exhibit will discuss a recenb collaboration with The South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA).
Read articleWikidata and SACDA Thesaurus and Authorities: A Case Study by Thamilini Jothilingam presented at the WikiConference North America is featured on the Wikimedia Glam Newsletter (December 2023).
Read articleSystems of knowledge and the mediums of knowledge production have been and continue to be informed and imposed by western modes of thinking and learning. Decolonial scholarship refers to this intrinsic structure as "coloniality of knowledge" (Tlostanova and Mignolo 2020).
Read articleDarshan Singh Canadian's dazzling, forgotten decade in BC transformed its politics forever.
Read articleThe first museum on Vancouver Island dedicated to Punjabi Sikh history is now open. The Paldi Historical Museum, which recently opened in one of the rooms of the Paldi Sikh Temple located west of Duncan at 23 Paldi Rd., explores the history of Paldi, an historic migrant mill town founded in 1916. The town's story was the subject of the latest Heritage Minute production.
Read articleThe South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA), an initiative of the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, is a pan-Canadian digital archive that documents the history and heritage of the South Asian diaspora in Canada. SACDA partners with memory institutions, individuals, families, and organizations to digitize, describe, and provide online public access to heritage materials created by, or relevant to, the South Asian Canadian diaspora. With extensive community engagement and a focus on social histories, with collaborative tools as praxis, SACDA seeks to transform existing knowledge infrastructures and foster knowledge diversity and equity. Thus, knowledge, from creation to sharing, becomes a community-driven project that informs, and is informed by, the collective histories.
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