Sustainable curation, preservation and online access for multilingual cultural heritage collections at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

FAIN: ZPA-283989-22

University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX 78712-0100)
Patience L. Epps (Project Director: May 2021 to December 2022)
Susan Smythe Kung (Co Project Director: October 2021 to December 2022)

The retention of one staff position and one student technician to sustain the operations of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. 

The University of Texas at Austin's Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) seeks American Rescue Plan: Humanities Organizations funding to sustain operations and support for the successful completion of its existing NEH grant PD-260978-18 "Archiving Significant Collections of Endangered Languages: Two Multilingual Regions of Northwestern South America." This project will digitize, curate, and archive eight significant collections of multilingual, multimedia materials that document Indigenous languages and cultures from Highland Ecuador and the Upper Rio Negro region of northwest Brazil and eastern Colombia. As the university, the country, and the entire world begin the difficult post-pandemic economic recovery, ARP support will ensure AILLA's continued growth, development, long-term preservation, accessibility, and discoverability by safeguarding critical staff positions, which are at risk of being lost.