Professional Practice

Practitioner's Library: Resources for professional archaeobytologists. Guides for consulting work, system evaluation, institutional development, and maintaining rigorous practice in the field.

Consulting & Evaluation

Sovereignty Audit Protocols for Client Platforms

Standardized methodology for auditing digital platforms to determine Sovereignty Score across Declaration, Connection, and Ground.

Diagnostic Toolkit

Diagnostic Protocol for Platform Critique

5-phase forensic audit framework: Mortality Check, Sovereignty Audit, Economic Forensics, Failure Mode Prediction, and Anvil Recommendation.

Anvil Methodology

Translator's Guide: Communicating Digital History

5 translation rules for explaining technical findings to non-technical stakeholders, with executive summary template.

Communication Framework

Ethical Guidelines for Platform Evaluation Work

The Steward's Oath: 5 ethical principles for preservation work, including Red Lines and evaluation checklist.

Ethics & Practice

Preservation Operations

The Triage Workflow: From Discovery to Access

8-phase systematic rescue operation workflow for responding to platform shutdowns: Discovery, Assessment, Mobilization, Capture, Validation, Storage, Access, and Documentation.

Operational Protocol

Institution Building

Institutional guides coming soon

Future resources will include:

  • • Starting a Digital Preservation Organization
  • • Sustainable Funding Models for Archive Work
  • • Building Community Around Preservation Practice
  • • Legal Structures for Digital Commons Projects

Tools & Templates

Practitioner tools coming soon

Future resources will include:

  • • Platform Autopsy Report Templates
  • • Sovereignty Assessment Checklists
  • • Dependency Audit Worksheets
  • • Triage Decision Matrix Tools