Supporting Global Equity in Documentary Heritage with a Free, Minimal Computing Solution for Creating Sustainable and Accessible Digital Exhibitions
The Case of Zulima
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Archives, digital preservationAbstract
The Global South’s documentary heritage is less online than the Global North’s and tools and methods are needed for enhancing the discoverability of collections where resources are constrained. The Zulima collection, late 19th- and early 20th-century documents pertaining to an important female Venezuelan author and playwright is a collection at risk of being lost as there are currently no memory institutions in Venezuela that can safely keep it. This project proposes a way to expand on existing metadata management software, SWALLOW, minimal web templates, a data export to Wikidata, and free asset hosting, to make this collection available online and accessible for future researchers.
Soutenir l’équité mondiale dans le patrimoine documentaire avec des solutions informatiques gratuites et minimales pour créer des expositions numériques durables et accessibles : Le cas de Zulima
Résumé
Le patrimoine documentaire des pays du Sud est moins présent en ligne que celui des pays du Nord, et des outils et méthodes sont nécessaires pour améliorer la découvrabilité des collections où les ressources sont restreintes. La collection Zulima, documents de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle concernant une importante femme autrice et dramaturge vénézuélienne, est une collection qui risque d’être perdue étant donné qu’il n’y actuellement pas d'institutions mémorielles au Venezuela qui peut la conserver en sécurité. Ce projet propose un moyen d’étendre le logiciel de gestion des métadonnées existant, SWALLOW, des modèles web minimaux, une exportation de données vers Wikidata, et l’hébergement gratuit de ressources dans le but de rendre cette collection disponible en ligne et accessible pour les futures chercheurs·euses.
Mots-clés
archives; préservation numérique
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