Welcome to the Archives, Memory, and Preservation Lab, a laboratory for research and learning in the digital humanities housed at the Center for Latin American and Iberian Research at UC Santa Barbara.

AMPL builds open-source software to digitize, catalog, and publish historical archives, and to research the histories they hold, with communities in Latin America and beyond.

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Tools
Four interoperable open-source tools for digitizing, cataloging, publishing, and storytelling — built to run on minimal infrastructure.

Tools

SOFTWARE

Telar

An open-source framework for weaving IIIF images, audio, video, and texts into layered visual narratives — for scholars, students, and communities working with digitized objects.
SOFTWARE

Telar Compositor

A web-based authoring environment for Telar stories — visual composition in the browser, static output in your own repository.
SOFTWARE

Zasqua

A digital archive with no servers: tens of thousands of historical documents, millions of image tiles, and sophisticated search and filtering — all as static files.
SOFTWARE

Fisqua

A cataloging platform built on minimal-computing infrastructure — open-source, standards-based, hosted by AMPL or self-deployable.
HARDWARE

Digitization Toolkit

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.
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Projects
Research partnerships and collaborations activating archives in Latin America and beyond.
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Opportunities
Hands-on ways for students and volunteers to get involved.
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Workshop
Working tools and small experiments for the AMPL community, for scheduling, paleography practice, and more.
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