Public Depot

[Source - Carolyn Hamilton for FHYA, 2020: The Public Depot hosted by the FHYA contains a wide range of resources relevant to the period and region covered by the FHYA. The components of The Public Depot have been uploaded by registered users of the site who may be representatives of institutions, professional researchers or members of the public. Registered users may not upload any material for which they do not own the copyright or which is not yet out of copyright. Registered users may upload items conventionally regarded as primary materials, such as recordings of interviews, photographs or digital copies of original documents provided that they have the necessary permissions. The Depot thus holds both items conventionally regarded as secondary materials and as primary materials. The Depot does not deploy this distinction in how it organises the materials, treating both types as archival items produced at a particular place and time. Registered users make decisions about what they wish to upload and are encouraged to provide as much detail as possible in the metadata section of their upload, as the more information and detail, the more useful the resource is likely to be. Items uploaded by registered users of the site are not subjected to further curation by the FHYA. The order of all of the material in The Depot, as presented on EMANDULO is random. Users can use the search function to look for specific resources or to look for specific terms. Certain of the uploaded items date back to the nineteenth century or earlier, and users of the site are alerted to the fact that some make use of terminology and naming conventions that are not acceptable in the twenty-first century.]