Our goal is to begin a conversation about priorities for archival preservation, the need for greater equity and justice in our preservation practices, and ways to safeguard the existence of historical records that will allow us in future to bear witness, with fairness and truth and in a spirit of reconciliation, to our society’s response to COVID-19. [...] Strengthen available resources and infrastructure in the archival sector to preserve the historical record of COVID-19 • Encourage university and college, Indigenous, community (including racialized and marginalized community), religious and other non-governmental archives to preserve records documenting society’s response to COVID-19, through policy leadership at the federal level; • Support them. [...] Create targeted capacity-building measures for digital records preservation • Build on the recommendations in UNESCO’s Recommendation Concerning the Preservation of, and Access to, Documentary Heritage Including in Digital Form (2015) which Canada signed on to; • Request the Government of Canada to provide a new “Born-Digital Preservation Program” to provide on-going funding to public and communit. [...] Given the often specialist nature of web archiving, a systematic program would help Canada build capacity in this vital area; • Empower and provide ongoing funding from the Government of Canada for Library and Archives Canada so that they can meet a long-term objective of continually acquiring and preserving a crawl of the entire Canadian world wide web (specifically the .ca domain) and retain it. [...] Ensure the preservation of research governed by ethical procedures (TCPS2) • Revise TCPS2 to: identify archives as the mechanism by which the secondary use and reuse of research data and records is effected; expand its consideration of archives beyond those of “national, provincial or municipal” governments; and establish compliance with appropriate practices, standards, regulations and laws as th.
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