Contribute to our Documentary Heritage

Share your artworks and stories

The Philippine Documentary Heritage Archival Collection on the COVID-19 Pandemic or PHDH is a non-profit initiative that aims to set up a digital repository of creative works and experiences of Philippine artists and cultural workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Through your invaluable contributions to the digital repository, we hope to piece together the extent and ways the pandemic impacted the creative sector. 

The PHDH was initiated by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts - National Committee on Archives (NCCA-NCA), with the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) as the proponent. Our aim is to make the PHDH digital repository publicly accessible as references for artists, researchers, programmers, and policymakers, among others. With your help, we will be able to collectively surface the most immediate and pressing challenges imposed by the COVID-19 crisis.

Why contribute?

Your chosen type of contribution to the digital repository will ensure that your experience will be represented in discussions about your industry and the larger context of the arts and culture sector during the pandemic. The project highlights the value of documentary heritage, especially during a time of crisis.

In its final form, the PHDH digital repository offers resources that aim to stimulate informed discussions and provide material basis for calls for support and crafting of resolutions—-all with a vision of contributing to the improvement of conditions for artists and cultural workers.

Project Timeline

PHDH is a multi-year project following three (3) phases:

• Phase 1: Discovery Phase (2020-2021)
  Foundational research for digital content
• Phase 2: Preservation Phase (2022)
  Capturing and preservation of digital content
• Phase 3: Public Access Phase (2022-2023)

Follow us

Facebook | facebook.com/PHDHDigitalRepository
Twitter | twitter.com/PHDH_repository

Know more about PHDH with these PUP Campus Journalists Features:   bit.ly/PHDHWebinar1Feature and bit.ly/PHDHWebinar2Feature

Scope

What are we looking for?

1. The digital repository welcomes contributions from artists and cultural workers:
   • creative works (from the visual arts, literary arts, dramatic arts, architecture and allied arts, dance, music, and cinema); and/or
   • documentation of activity/ies and experience/s [documentation of in-person and online artists/arts community events, talks, and webinars; posts, responses, statements, bulletin and advisories, updates]
2. Artists or creators (i.e., artist/s, artist group or collectives and cultural workers) must be residents of the Philippines. Collaborations with artist/s, artist group or collectives and cultural workers based in the Philippines are also accepted.
3. Creative works and documentation of activity/ies and experience/s must be in relation to the following topics or themes.
   • COVID-19
   • Lockdown (e.g. community quarantines, passes)
   • Interpersonal and Intrapersonal relations (e.g. different types/kinds of human relations)
   • Health and healthcare
   • Livelihood (e.g. basic needs such as food/sustenance, income/employment)
   • Shelter
   • Education
   • Transportation
   • Information and communication
   • Religious life
   • Leisure
   • Heritage and cultural activities
   • Change of built environment
   • Governance (e.g. financial aid or "ayuda"; IATF protocols and guidelines; government projects and programs, laws/legislation)
   • Violations and crime
   • Migration (e.g. sense of place, mobility)
   • Foreign relations (e.g. foreign pharmaceutical vaccine deals)
   • Solidarity (e.g. mobilization and non-government/private aid and assistance)
   • Non-representational expression
4. Contributions must have been created or (re)staged during the time the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) was enforced in Luzon (15 March 2020) to the present. 
5. Contributors have the option to share any of the following:
   1. Information about your creative work and/or documentation of activity/experience
   2. Access copy to be stored in the digital repository (a lower resolution file or representation of your creative work and/or documentation of activity/experience)
   3. Access link/URL to a different platform or service where the creative work and/or documentation of activity/experience is already uploaded
   4. Information, access copy to be stored in the digital repository, and access link/URL
6. Accepted formats of access copies:
   • Image
   • Text
   • Audio
   • Video

How to participate/contribute

1. If you're uncertain if your creative work and/or documentation of activity/experience is within the scope of the PHDH digital repository, send us a message at phdh@pup.edu.ph. We can help!
2. Please use the following Google Forms to share information about your creative work/s and/or documentation of experience/s. Options on what you can contribute are also itemized in the form:
   • Creative work/s: bit.ly/PHDH-Artwork
   • Documentation of activity/ies and experience/s: bit.ly/PHDH-Story
     
     The Google Form allows you to sign an agreement allowing PHDH to process your submission and provides information about the copyright and use of your content.
3. Need help filling out the form, let us know! We offer a researcher-assisted option. Send us a message at phdh.info@pup.edu.ph; copy in phdh@pup.edu.ph.
4. For creative work/s and/or documentation of activity/ies or experience/s with more than one artist or creator, all co-creators need to fill up the Google Form. If an access copy of your creative work and/or documentation of activity/experience will be shared to the digital repository, only 1 artist or creator is required to upload or submit the file. 
5. If you are not the artist or creator but would like to recommend or suggest a creative work and/or documentation of activity/experience of artists or cultural workers, use this Google Form to make a nomination.
    
   Nominate here: bit.ly/PHDHNominate
    
6. If presentations, interviews, and other sensitive or copyrighted materials owned by individuals appear in your documentation, we will also need their individual permissions so that we can preserve and share the recordings with future researchers. (Permissions can be revoked at any time upon request. Refer to our Takedown Policy.)
7. Submissions will not be available to the public immediately. After they are processed by PHDH, they will be prepared for Phase 3: Public Access Phase. Contributors will receive periodic updates about their contribution/s and the project.

Takedown Policy

The Philippine Documentary Heritage Archival Collection on the COVID-19 Pandemic (PHDH) is made accessible for education and research. PHDH has provided attributions to rights holders based on the processing of contributed creative works and/or documentation of activities and experiences. 

If you hold the rights to the records or materials in the digital repository and find the attribution to be inaccurate or incorrect, please let us know so that we may maintain the integrity of the PHDH and protect the rights of the owner of creative works or rights holder. 

If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found any record or material in the digital repository which you have not granted permission for inclusion, you may request for its removal by sending an email notice, with the elements described below, to phdh@pup.edu.ph.

Please include the following in your e-mail notice:

1. Identification of the record/material that you believe to be infringing upon your or other's copyright, moral, and economic rights;
2. Your contact information where we can best reach you;
3. A statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
4. A proof (i.e., an attachment or a link redirecting to an online feature with attribution) in support of your notice.

Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will temporarily remove the record/material allegedly infringing your right from public view while we assess the issues you have identified. PHDH will send periodic updates regarding your request.

Philippine Documentary Heritage Archival Collection on the COVID-19 Pandemic

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Philippine Documentary Heritage Archival Collection on the COVID-19 Pandemic was initiated by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) National Committee on Archives (NCA), with the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) as the proponent.

The project is implemented by a curatorial collective comprised of the following teams: