CENTRO de Estudios Puertorriqueños CENTER FOR PUERTO RICAN STUDIES HISTORY: ●Research Institute was established in1973 and it was also known as the Archives of Puerto Rican Diaspora. ●In1989 it was formally established as The Centro Archives. ●Located at Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work. ●The mission of the Centro Library and Archives is to educate, preserve, and collect historical materials devoted to the Puerto Rican Diapora in the United States.
About VOCES... ●Voces Digital Audio Archive Collection Project was created by graduate students from Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science. ●Students were enrolled in the Projects in Digital Archives Course taught by Prof. Anthony Cocciolo. ●The class was divided into 4 teams: -Metadata -Research & Documentation -Design -Technology ●Centro’s Voces Digital Audio Archive contains four different oral history collections reagarding the Puerto Rican Community Migration experience in the United States.
Metadata ●Research for Metadata Guidelines and Schema ●Choosing Schema: PBCore ●Daily Log metadata entry ●Cleaning Files ●Naming Files ●Inputting metadata information into Omeka
Metadata Work Flow
Research & Documentation Tasks: ●Archives Research ●Biographical and Collection Descriptions ●Collecting and Curating Images ●Photographing Cassette Tapes ●Liaison ●Copyright Issues ●Inserting Metadata
Inspiration
Draw
Design
NAVIGATION CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY IDENTITY Users were asked to: 1. Find material from the Luis Cardona Collection. 2. Find an interview with Awilda Otano. 3. Find other Centro Digital Archive projects. User Evaluation
Technology
Filezilla - FTP
Uploading mp3 Files
Future Maintenance
Jack Agüeros ( ) Profilic poet, writer, community activist, Director of el Museo del Barrio and founder of the Cayman Gallery past away on May 4th, 2014.