Collection Objects from the Digital Occupy Archive

The Occupy Archive’s Collection Objects is a dataset of more than 400 digitized primary source materials from the global Occupy movement, openly available at DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6V9ZF . From 2019–2020, a team of research assistants, librarians, and Dr. Heather Hurwitz digitized over 1,200 pages of manuscripts and ephemera collected by Hurwitz at Occupy movement protests and meetings from 2011–2018. The team established a taxonomy of descriptive metadata and applied it to each object to facilitate searching, viewing, and downloading the data. Accompanying the dataset, the archive includes teaching tools and research guides to facilitate reuse. Funding statement: The Occupy Archive was created during the course of Hurwitz’s Freedman Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University’s Kelvin Smith Library. The Freedman Fellows Program is generously funded by the Freedman Fellows Endowment, established by Samuel B. and Marian K. Freedman, and supported by additional Case Western Reserve University campus partners.