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Interviewing another person is optional and never changes the completion standard.", "assignments": [ { "title": "Consent and interview plan", "dueWeek": 2, "brief": "Write the purpose, invitation or self-owned-object boundary, recording choice, withdrawal path, access limits, and intended afterlife before collecting material." }, { "title": "Ten-minute interview or object scan", "dueWeek": 4, "brief": "Collect one bounded, consented story or document one self-owned or public-domain object with context." }, { "title": "Living archive record", "dueWeek": 6, "brief": "Publish or privately deposit an edited record with image, transcript or audio, metadata, rights, credits, and preservation copy." } ], "weeks": [ { "week": 1, "title": "Consent, Care, and the Ethics of Keeping", "question": "What right do we have to keep, edit, or publish another person’s story?", "sourceShelf": [ "Oral History Association ethics and consent principles", "Community archive consent and withdrawal examples", "On-page consent map: decide separately whether to listen, record, quote, edit, identify, preserve, publish, and remove later" ], "studio": "Separate permission to listen, record, edit, preserve, publish, identify, and mint.", "fieldTask": "Write a purpose statement and run the consent-map self-check. Optional peer feedback may precede an optional interview, but the self-check and object-story route count equally.", "publicReceipt": "A reusable plain-language consent map with distinct yes, no, later, and withdraw choices." }, { "week": 2, "title": "Listening and Interviewing", "question": "How can a small question open a story without steering it?", "sourceShelf": [ "Open-ended interview question patterns", "Active listening and silence exercises", "Trauma-aware boundary and referral prompts" ], "studio": "Practice opening, follow-up, silence, correction, scope, and a respectful ending through a scripted solo rehearsal; optional paired practice counts the same.", "fieldTask": "Complete a short unrecorded solo listening rehearsal using a self-owned memory or object and revise the plan. Rehearsing with another person is optional.", "publicReceipt": "The final interview or object-story plan without private participant information." }, { "week": 3, "title": "Record, Scan, Describe", "question": "What technical choices preserve meaning without creating unnecessary risk?", "sourceShelf": [ "Basic audio recording and room-tone guidance", "Library scanning and descriptive metadata basics", "On-page file check: neutral filename, no unnecessary personal data, original plus working copy, two storage locations when possible, access restriction, and deletion date" ], "studio": "Run simple phone recording, scanning, photography, transcription, and description demonstrations.", "fieldTask": "Record the bounded interview or document the selected object using the agreed consent path.", "publicReceipt": "A redacted technical log naming format, duration, backup, and any access restrictions." }, { "week": 4, "title": "Edit Without Rewriting a Life", "question": "What can be shortened, reordered, clarified, or left alone?", "sourceShelf": [ "Oral-history transcript editing conventions", "Audio edit, ellipsis, correction, and review practices", "Examples of participant review before release" ], "studio": "Edit a short excerpt, mark every intervention, and test the difference between clarity and distortion.", "fieldTask": "Prepare the draft record and run the editorial-integrity self-check. For an optional interview, return it to the participant for correction or reaffirmed consent; the self-owned-object path needs no outside approval.", "publicReceipt": "An editorial decision log that does not expose restricted content." }, { "week": 5, "title": "Metadata, Rights, Context, Omission", "question": "What must travel with the record, and what must not?", "sourceShelf": [ "Dublin Core-inspired descriptive fields in plain language", "Copyright, license, traditional-knowledge, and privacy distinctions", "On-page record fields: title, creator, contributor if consented, date, privacy-safe place, description, rights, access, format, source, version, and backup location" ], "studio": "Build a compact record with title, creator, contributor, date, place, description, rights, access, format, and source.", "fieldTask": "Complete metadata, rights statement, accessibility assets, preservation copy, and deletion/withdrawal instructions.", "publicReceipt": "A metadata card with restricted fields visibly withheld rather than silently missing." }, { "week": 6, "title": "Open a Listening Room", "question": "How can an archive invite attention without turning a person into content?", "sourceShelf": [ "Small listening-room and community exhibition formats", "Content note, transcript, image-description, and quiet-access examples", "On-page stewardship fields: access level, withdrawal path, correction contact or note, review date, preservation copy, deletion request path, and responsible keeper" ], "studio": "Conduct a final rights, context, access, and preservation self-review. Participant review applies only to an optional interview, and a listening room is optional.", "fieldTask": "Finish the living archive record and choose public, limited, delayed, or private deposit.", "publicReceipt": "A private-by-default record or, optionally, a public catalog stub describing why the record remains limited or private; either counts equally." } ], "archiveWorkNumber": "165", "archiveCategory": "ARCHIVE + MEMORY", "connectsFrom": [ "UES-102", "UES-107" ], "budgetUsd": 3700, "addedProductionNeed": "Archive storage, rights support, and a specialist guest honorarium.", "human": "https://pointcast.xyz/ues/living-archive", "catalog": "https://pointcast.xyz/ues", "fundingProgram": "https://pointcast.xyz/university-of-el-segundo", "participation": { "status": "active", "deliveryMode": "self-paced", "start": "anytime", "durationModules": 6, "learnerPriceUsd": 0, "requirements": { "account": false, "application": false, "deadlines": false, "liveAttendance": false, "wallet": false } }, "progressPolicy": { "storage": "local-browser-only", "syncsToServer": false, "identityStored": false, "learnerArtifactsStored": false, "note": "Only completion choices and timestamps are saved in this browser. The learner may reset them or download a private receipt." }, "optionalSupportedCohort": { "availableWhenFunded": true, "requiredForAccessOrCompletion": false, "note": "A scheduled cohort may add human review and facilitation, but it never gates the independent path." }, "completionReceipt": { "kind": "self-attested", "privateByDefault": true, "walletRequired": false, "onChain": false, "disclaimer": "The receipt is not academic credit, accreditation, verified identity, an on-chain credential, or a financial credential." }, "transactionPolicy": "Course browsing and participation are wallet-free. Tezos support is optional and requires separate explicit Mainnet review." }