Community Heritage Empowerment Toolkit (CHET): A Standards-Based Toolkit for Documenting a Structure’s Life History for Grassroots Heritage Preservation Organizations

FAIN: HAA-290380-23

University of Central Florida Board of Trustees (Orlando, FL 32816-8005)
Lori C. Walters (Project Director: June 2022 to present)
Joseph Kider (Co Project Director: March 2023 to present)

The Community Heritage Empowerment Toolkit (CHET) project will create a prototype serves standards-based toolkit, consisting of video, written, and aural guides, instructing grassroots heritage preservation organizations how to document a structure’s Life History. Often the community preservationists who have the desire and time to do this recordation possess limited technical expertise or lack sufficient funding to purchase specialized equipment. There is one ubiquitous and empowering device that has the capability to change this: the smartphone. CHET will provide a comprehensive yet accessible smartphone-enabled digital recordation toolkit enabling the completion of small and medium-scale digital documentation projects. This will empower the entire community to actively participate in preservation and expand information capture locally.

Media Coverage

SDSU Receives NEH Grant for the Community Heritage Empowerment Toolkit (CHET) (Media Coverage)
Publication: College of Arts & Letters SDSU - YouTube
Date: 1/3/2024
Abstract: YouTube piece developed by College of Arts & Letters at SDSU announcing the CHET project.
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLWRQoiqaY

NEH Grant for New Empowerment Tool That Helps Communities Document Heritage of Historic Buildings (Media Coverage)
Author(s): CAL News Team
Publication: SDSU College of Arts & Letters News
Date: 9/22/2023
Abstract: SDSU is announcing a partnership with UCF to develop the NEH-funded CHET project.
URL: https://cal.sdsu.edu/news/neh-ullah