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

Design

NAVIGATIONCONTENTACCESSIBILITYIDENTITY

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 (1934-2014)

Profilic poet, writer, community activist, Director of el Museo del Barrio and founder of the Cayman Gallery past away on May 4th, 2014.

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