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.
Captua, Fisqua, and Zasqua connect the work of digitizing collections, describing their contents, and making them available for research. Developed with partner archives, they support institutions and communities in preserving and sharing their own historical materials.
Capture archival materials with a low-cost, offline station built around a Raspberry Pi and paired cameras. Organize volumes, check image quality, and coordinate reviews and retakes to prepare completed captures for cataloging and publication.
Explore Captua ↗
Describe collections, identify people and places, and coordinate archival work. Bring students, volunteers, and community members into collaborative cataloging under professional review.
Explore Fisqua ↗
Turn cataloged collections into searchable public archives. Make descriptions and high-resolution images available through durable websites that require little infrastructure to maintain.
Explore Zasqua ↗The three tools are designed to work together; each can also be used independently.
Telar and Telar Compositor support the creation and publication of interpretive work with historical materials—for research, public exhibitions, and teaching.
Build stories around digitized objects, bringing images, maps, audio, video, and text into layered visual narratives. Published projects remain portable and inexpensive to maintain.
Explore Telar ↗
Compose Telar stories in a shared visual editor. Assemble materials, frame images, and write interpretive text together, with the work saved in the authors’ own repositories.
Explore Compositor ↗
