A Blueprint for Egalitarian Archival Practices

A collaborative project bringing students and scholar practitioners to think about archives, social memory, and how to activate the past. More details

An NEH-funded project to develop an integrated toolkit of hardware, software, and documentation to allow lower-resourced institutions, collectives, and communities to digitize their archival collections at low cost.

What happens when communities have the means to digitize and administer their own historical documentation? What if more people can decide what constitutes an archive: what is worth collecting, preserving, and sharing, and on what terms? How might this affect how visions and narratives of the past are written and taught in different contexts? More details

Building digital infrastructure for object-based storytelling beyond the academy.

A prototype platform and methodology that will allow scholars to present expert narratives aimed at different audiences through the display of born-digital or digitized objects, whether historical manuscripts, images, video or audio recordings, or 3D visualizations. More details

Help us catalogue historical materials from Latin America

Learn how to read 16th and 17th-century manuscripts from Tunja, Colombia, and help us make them available to researchers, students, and the public. More details

A project to develop a digital archive and historical dataset useful to Andean communities

How can we make digital archives of historical documents useful to the communities reflected in them? (Photographs by the French Institute of Andean Studies and Evelyne Mesclier) More details

A project to digitize and preserve two archives documenting urban migration and political struggles in Medellín, Colombia.

As part of this work, UCSB undergrads digitized an archive of photographs of everyday life in the tugurios of Medellín, Colombia, taken in 1976 by Anne Tuzman and Glenn McNatt and preserved by Anne Fischel. More details