This paper tries to shed light on how loose and fragmented is the methodological framework of archival practice within the decolonized knowledge production turn. And here I am representing Participatory Archival Charter; an initiative by Shubra’s Archive, a community archival hub located in northern Cairo, Egypt. The PAC is an approach to look back at the archival practice both in academic and non-academic spheres to see how these practices regulate the need for reuse. While most community archives institutions in Egypt lack a copyright policy, the PAC was an initiative by Shubra’s Archive to invite community archives and alternative archival hubs in Egypt to rethink the practices of archival accumulation and ownership ethically and to inhibit decolonized archival skills regarding technical treatment process such as building databases, especially metadata. In examining the uses of metadata as a research method, I will focus on the extraction of derivative data which is in the context of information studies as the drawn data from items in any collections, without being the items themselves, or being very specific, its data outsourcing from the original as a way of interpretation (Bauer & Wrisley, 2020). Moreover, the PAC regulates further steps in the archival management and research process that include; How do we approach people for oral history interviews? What kind of knowledge production should be generated whether critical, ethnographical, or theoretical-based? How can we secure and feed the channels between the people and the researchers\artists\facilitators? How can we turn sharing the final production with the participants into an outcome by itself? And finally, how can we make all of these channels and archives available for reuse? In doing so, I present a Coptic family collection that returns to the 30s to highlight the after-archival treatment proceeding and the integration of ethnographic methodologies in database building.