Digital Archives for Recovered U.S. Latino Collections
FAIN: CHA-292067-23
University of Houston (Houston, TX 77204-3067)
Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Project Director: October 2022 to present)
Establishment of a cloud-based digital repository and content management system to preserve and enhance access to nearly 500,000 digitized Hispanic literary materials at the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas.
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage program (Recovery) at the University of Houston (UH) is applying for an NEH Challenge Grant to improve its digital infrastructure. UH’s Recovery plans to create a customized cloud-based digital repository and content management system for their digital assets (from here on referred to as the Repository). The Repository will hold the vast digital archives of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, books, periodicals and memorabilia collected over thirty years. The Repository will 1) organize, index and preserve digital content and 2) provide multilevel access to the assets and their metadata for a range of audiences from around the United States and abroad. The Repository will further the preservation of Latino historical materials (1595 to 1980) through the maintenance, modernization and consolidation of all Recovery archival collections.