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CMS is community‑driven software that addresses the ethical curation of and access to cultural heritage, and this paper outlines its history and the Mukurtu Hubs and Spokes project, a sustainable national platform for community archiving funded by IMLS in 2016. The project extends the social, cultural, and technical work of CMS development to version 2.0.7 and, through the Hubs and Spokes grant, aims to create regional centers of support and training while updating the software to version 3.0. The mechanism involves establishing regional hubs that contribute to software updates and deliver local training and support for community users.
This paper describes the history of CMS and our current project Mukurtu Hubs and Spokes: A Sustainable National Platform for Community Archiving funded by the IMLS as part of their National Digital Platform initiative in 2016. This project is an extension of the social, cultural, and technical work of developing the CMS software to the current 2.0.7 release. CMS is community driven software that addresses the ethical curation of, and access to, cultural heritage. The Hubs and Spokes grant will create regional centers of support and training and update the software to a 3.0 release. Each hub will contribute to the software updates and provide local training and support for community users.