diff --git a/_news/announcement_1.md b/_news/announcement_1.md index e5349ce..c82e4c1 100644 --- a/_news/announcement_1.md +++ b/_news/announcement_1.md @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ --- layout: post -date: 2015-10-22 15:59:00-0400 -inline: true -related_posts: false +title: Jennifer Isasi to join LLILAS Benson as CLIR Fellow +date: 2018-05-07 +inline: false --- -A simple inline announcement. +LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections is pleased to announce that Jennifer Isasi, PhD, will join the staff as CLIR Fellow for Data Curation in Latin American and Latina/o Studies. Isasi will work with Digital Scholarship Coordinator Albert A. Palacios to contribute to “collections as data” efforts, educational resources, and digital scholarship initiatives at LLILAS Benson. She will hold her position from July 29 through June 2020. + +*** + +To read more visit a special [TexLibris Post](https://texlibris.lib.utexas.edu/2018/05/07/jennifer-isasi-to-join-llilas-benson-as-clir-fellow-for-data-curation/). diff --git a/_news/announcement_2.md b/_news/announcement_2.md index 7221ac3..23e0abe 100644 --- a/_news/announcement_2.md +++ b/_news/announcement_2.md @@ -1,13 +1,8 @@ --- layout: post -title: Jennifer Isasi to join LLILAS Benson as CLIR Fellow -date: 2018-05-07 +title: Jennifer Isasi se une al equipo de Programming Historian en español +date: 2018-02-13 inline: false -related_posts: false --- -LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections is pleased to announce that Jennifer Isasi, PhD, will join the staff as CLIR Fellow for Data Curation in Latin American and Latina/o Studies. Isasi will work with Digital Scholarship Coordinator Albert A. Palacios to contribute to “collections as data” efforts, educational resources, and digital scholarship initiatives at LLILAS Benson. She will hold her position from July 29 through June 2020. - -*** - -To read more visit a special [TexLibris Post](https://texlibris.lib.utexas.edu/2018/05/07/jennifer-isasi-to-join-llilas-benson-as-clir-fellow-for-data-curation/). +Para leer más, visita el [anuncion en el blog de Programming Historian](https://programminghistorian.org/posts/jennifer-isasi-jose-a-motilla). diff --git a/_news/announcement_3.md b/_news/announcement_3.md index 4d54088..c722460 100644 --- a/_news/announcement_3.md +++ b/_news/announcement_3.md @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ --- layout: post -date: 2016-01-15 07:59:00-0400 -inline: true -related_posts: false +title: Digitization training week at Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen in El Salvador +date: 2019-06-12 +inline: false --- -A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji! :sparkles: :smile: +In June 2019 I had the great honor to work closely with one of the Latin American Digital Initiatives' partner in El Salvador, el [Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen](http://museo.com.sv/es/). I was part of the group to initiate the digitization of an embroideries collection created by refugee women during the Salvadorial Civil War and that the museum is getting to collect now through collective repatriation efforst. + +Although I was there to train the museum's team on textile digitization practices and digital scholarship in the community, they taught me very valuable lessons on historical memory, community building and group effort. + +You can read more about this visit in [our blog post in Tex Libris](https://texlibris.lib.utexas.edu/2019/09/26/embroidered-testimonies-of-salvadoran-civil-war-refugees-accessible-online/) or by watching a [video-report](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzU2WMgdhHc) MUPI created for the ocassion. diff --git a/_news/announcement_4.md b/_news/announcement_4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f1473f --- /dev/null +++ b/_news/announcement_4.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Grant to organize symposium on postcustodial practices. +date: 2020-02-27 +inline: false +--- + +The Council for Library and Information Resources awarded the 2018-2020 cohort of postdoctoral fellows in data curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies a microgrant that will allow them to organize and host a symposium that will center the voices of several archives in Latin America and the Caribbean in a forum to share strategies and areas of need. + +The project "Capacity Assessment of Latin American and Caribbean Partners: A Symposium about Open-Access, Technological Needs, and Institutional Sustainability" will take place on April 16 and 17 in Miami. To learn more, [visit the website of the event](https://lacclirsymposium2020.github.io). diff --git a/_news/announcement_5.md b/_news/announcement_5.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..14e663a --- /dev/null +++ b/_news/announcement_5.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: New report presents recommendations on equitable practices +date: 2021-02-17 +inline: false +--- + +The Mellon funded project "Capacity Assessment of Latin American and Caribbean Partners: A Symposium about Open-Access, Technological Needs, and Institutional Sustainability" is now completed! + +Following [the symposium](https://lacclirsymposium2020.github.io) that took place in April 2020, on a virtual format due to Covid-19, CLIR fellows in the second cohort of Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies present a set of questions for funders, libraries, archives, and others based in the United States, Canada, and European nations to consider when evaluating grant proposals for digital projects, or when considering post-custodial archival work with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. These recommendations propose equitable practices to enhance cultural engagement through collection development that fully acknowledges Latin American and Caribbean organizations as equal partners with a voice in decision making for projects and grant funding. + +The [report has been published by CLIR](https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub178/) and is available in five languages; you can read it in English, Kreyòl ayisyen, Français, Português and Spanish. + +Hemos terminado el proyecto "Evaluación de la capacidad de los socios en América Latina y el Caribe: Un simposio sobre acceso abierto, necesidades tecnológicas y sostenibilidad institucional", financiado por la fundación Mellon. + +Tras el simposio que tuvo lugar en abril de 2020, que tuvo lugar en formato virtual debido a la Covid-19, el segundo grupo de becarias en Curaduría de Datos para América Latina y el Caribe presenta una serie de cuestiones para entidades financiadoras, bibliotecas, archivos y otras entidades en Estados Unidos, Canadá y Europa. Se trata de cuestiones a considerar a la hora de evaluar propuestas de beca para el desarrollo de proyectos digitales o para proyectos de archivos post-custodiales en colaboración con instituciones de Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Estas recomendaciones proponen prácticas equitativas para mejorar el acercamiento cultural a través del desarrollo de colecciones en que las organizaciones latinoamericanas y caribeñas son presentadas como colegas en igualdad de condiciones, con voz propia en la toma de decisiones del proyecto y su financiación. + +El reporte ha sido publicado por CLIR y está disponible en cinco idiomas; puedes leerlo en español, inglés, português, Kreyòl ayisye y francé +, +s. diff --git a/_news/announcement_6.md b/_news/announcement_6.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8d5e91 --- /dev/null +++ b/_news/announcement_6.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Interviewed for the ADHO podcast Episode 2 +date: 2022-08-03 +inline: false +--- +I appeared in the second episode of the new: *Who is ADHO? CoreDH*, together with Dr. Lorena Gauthereau. This initiative by the [Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations](https://adho.org/) to showcase and disseminate the work of DHers; from their site: + + +> You can listen to and read interviews with representatives from ADHO’s Constituent Organizations: learn about our organizations, their major projects and challenges, as well as individual members’ research. This series was prepared by Erdal Ayan and Anna Sofia Lippolis (Communications Fellows) with Hannah L. Jacobs (Communications Officer). + + +It was a real pleasure to spend some time with Lorena, Anna Sofia and Erdal to chat more about the [Association for Computers and the Humanities](https://ach.org/), digital archives, data curation and digital tools for research in DH. You can [listen](https://adho.org/about/podcast/) to our session or [read the transcript](https://adho.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CoreDH_Episode02_Transcript.pdf). + +If you do, thanks for listening!