SLIDE 1 Challenging Colonial Practices of Accessibility and Representation through Bilingual Metadata
Angelibel Soto and Margarita Vargas-Betancourt University of Florida June 2019
SLIDE 2 Case Studies
- 1. The Cuban American Dream
- 2. Florida and Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project
- 3. Collaboration between Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba
José Martí and the University of Florida
SLIDE 3 Archives and Colonialism
- Empires used extensive recordkeeping to control their colonies.
- They used classificatory systems (example: racial) to to ensure the
hegemony of a small group of European colonists over indigenous, African, and Asian people.
- 1823- Monroe Doctrine derived into US hegemony over Latin
America & the Caribbean.
- 1898- Spanish American War
- The U.S. also became an intellectual hegemonic power in part by
collecting (“removing’) Latin American & Caribbean cultural heritage.
SLIDE 4 History of UF’s Latin American & Caribbean Collection (LACC)
- 1930- UF President Tigert created the Institute for
Inter-American Affairs.
- 1948- Farmington Plan
- 1951- Farmington Plan assigned UF as the repository
for Caribbean material.
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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
SLIDE 6
Florida Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project
SLIDE 7
Bilingual Subject Headings and Spanish Abstracts for La democracia.
http://uf.catalog.fcla.e du/permalink.jsp?20U F036739304
Chronicling America
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The Cuban American Dream Timeline
SLIDE 9
Lcsh-es.org
SLIDE 10 Latin American Authority Files
- LEMBBIDEXARMARC
- Lista de encabezamientos de materia para bibliotecas (LEMB)Bilindex
(BIDEX)Lista ARMARC de encabezamientos de materia para bibliotecas mayors (ARMARC)
- Colombian
- Preferred by Latin America
- RENIB
- (base de datos de autoridad)
- Chile
- EBFEM
- Encabezamientos bilingües de la Fundación Educativa Ana G. Méndez
- Puerto Rico
- UNAM
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Mexico
SLIDE 11 Latin American Authority Files
- Not extensive
- Example: Jews
- LCSH: 375
- ARMARC: 23
- Pay each vendor an annual licensing fee
- BIDEX http://www.bilindex.com/BilindexOnline.htm
- ARMARC http://www.rojaseberhard.com.co/herramientas-bibliotecarias.html
- Not accessible
- UNAM http://132.248.67.3:8991/F/-/?func=find-b-0&local_base=MX011
- Hard to find
- RENIB https://www.renib.cl/
- EBFEM
SLIDE 12 Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST):
- Better search functionality with
OPAC’s and digital libraries
- Spanish language authority files not
extensive enough for strings
Strings vs. Facets
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Celebrating Cuba! Collaborative Digital Collections of Cuban Patrimony
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Dean Judy Russell, Dr. Rebecca Jefferson, and Lauren Krefs from UF with Adela Dworin, President of the community at Gran Sinagoga Bet Shalom (March 2018)
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Challenges
1. The difficulty of recruiting and keeping catalogers with a good grasp of Spanish 2. Finding reputable authority files of Spanish language subject headings that are compatible 3. FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) 4. Spanish national and regional variation and colonialism
SLIDE 17 Solutions
- Recruitment of catalogers who can read and write Spanish.
- The design of well-defined, contained, and sustainable projects that
can function as pilots.
- Centralization and collaboration with other institutions, in order to
develop Spanish language datasets.
SLIDE 18
Questions
Angie Soto luarita@ufl.edu Margarita Vargas-Betancourt mvargasb@ufl.edu
