José Luis Benavides
Joe Bautista
Stephen D Kutay
Nicole Shibata
Farmworker Movement Digital Photo Archive, Multimedia Website, and On-Demand Exhibition.
Project Type:
Project
Project Sponsors:
- National Endowment for the Humanities - NEH
Project Award:
- $700,000
Project Timeline:
2021-06-01 – 2024-05-31
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The proposed project will create a digital database of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center's Farmworker Movement Collection using CONTENTdm to digitally preserve the images and enable educational online access. Users will be able to access the database through the University Library Digital Collections website. The digital archive will include 6,600 images. Project activities, which will take place over a 3-year timeframe, include completing the archival processing of the collection, selecting images for inclusion in the digital archive, creating metadata, scanning the images to make preservation and access files, uploading the digital files and metadata to CONTENTdm, and linking the database to the University Library website. This will result in the complete processing of the collection and digitization 30% of its holdings. NEH funding will also support the development and creation of a multimedia website that uses this newly created digital photographic archive, 20 oral histories of farm worker participants that are already part of the Center's collection, and other publicly available digital resources to tell the stories of the diverse group of people who made the movement initially successful, paying particular attention to presenting women stories. In addition, the Bradley Center plans to create, with the images and the stories used on our website, a Do-It-Yourself educational exhibition for schools, community centers, and union groups so they can print the exhibition on-demand and display it publicly.