2024 Archive Update
2024 Raíces Digital Archive Update
Last year our Community History team selected from over 37,000 media files created and stored through our organization's history from 2008-2023, to make available a comprehensive and centralized database of the organization's program and project history and documentation in the cultural arts, making more primary source material available to the public in our mission areas of cultural arts, community history and ecoculture. Accomplishments for 2024 include:
- 5,200 media items have been indexed for new records and imported to the database, with over 2,500 of them currently available for public browsing and download.
- 4,500 total records were organized into 50 collections and sub-collections friendly categorization.
- The Omeka software was updated and a slew of plugins added for admin and user functionality, including:
- CSV Import - to semi-automate importing and creation of new records
- Collection Tree - to organize, categorize and sub-categorize
- Reference - for browsing records by metadata type
- Simple Vocab - to create our own custom controlled vocabulary.
- A timeline exhibit has been drafted using Knightlab Timelines and Juncture tools and will be completed and will be launched in full at the organization's 17 year anniversary event on June 1, 2025.
- A metadata remediation project has been launched for uniformity and consistency in metadata. Fields that have completed metadata remediation to date are:
- Contributor
- Coverage (Location)
- Item Type
- Date
- The organization's preservation policy was updated to reflect current protocols and best practices.
What's Next?
- An additional 1,200 media items from 2024 have been selected for indexing in 2025 and will be published by January 31, 2025.
- Over 400 new video items will be published by February 28, 2025.
- Metadata remediation will continue for the following fields:
- Creator
- Subject
- Tags
- A how-to guide to using the archive for both researchers and the general public is being prepared for publication and launch by Spring 2025.