PANEL 2: Public, Access, and the Archival Dimensions of Digital Humanities

PANEL 2: Public, Access, and the Archival Dimensions of Digital Humanities
Lozano Long Conference
Archiving Objects of Knowledge with Latin American Perspectives
The expansion of digital humanities has started to redefine how we think of, and with, archives — not only in terms of provenance, selection, and preservation of documents, but also in terms of accessibility and use. Big-data tools have also streamlined ways of tracing how users interact with online collections — often informing the digital projects themselves. This panel seeks to identify the archival dimensions of select public-facing digital humanities projects by centering the user. All projects developed here have made real-world objects and documents that are not necessarily located in one physical space available for broad public access via virtual space. Questions to explore include the ethical, political, pedagogical, and technological considerations and challenges that have gone into making these collections available to a broader, engaged public.

Moderator: Camila Ordorica, PhD student in History, The University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Christina Wasson, Professor of Anthropology, University of North Texas

▻Alex Borucki, University of California Irvine
In Search of Captives and Slave Ships: Reflections on the Spanish American Archives of the Slave Trade Routes (related: The Slave Voyages Database)

▻Jaime Borja, Universidad de los Andes
Archivos visuales y minería de datos. El proyecto Arca y la cultura colonial como espacio digital

▻Carolina Villarroel, University of Houston
Latina/o/x Perspectives in the Digital Archive

▻Brooke Lillehaugen, Haverford College
The Ticha Project: Digital Approaches to Pedagogy and Language Activism through Colonial-era Zapotec Language Manuscripts

▻Inez Stampa and Vicente Arruda Câmara Rodrigues, Centro Memórias Reveladas
Memórias Reveladas: A reference center for the archives of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964–1985)

▻María de Vecchi, Artículo 19
Camino a la verdad: La experiencia de Archivos de la Represión y Archivos de la Resistencia en México

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