Resources

Omeka S multilingual software pack

AREPR’s approach to community data ethics combines critical digital humanities and community engagement by advocating for data and technology practices that are built on community input. This approach flips the conventional top-down, business-first approach to data management and software development by implementing a grassroots, community-first strategy. A key component of this work is the belief that community stories can both highlight the ways in which technologies are discriminatory and envision new relationships between humans and digital objects. Using this approach, we developed Multilingual, an Omeka S theme that is available on the Omeka website and is freely available for other groups to use. This theme and the corresponding software extensions we developed—Transcript, GroupEdit, PageBlocks, and SimplePDF—as well as those we supported—Internationalisation and Translations—simplify the process of developing and sustaining bilingual digital projects for scholars across the disciplines by providing free, easy-to-use tools for displaying archival and cultural heritage materials across languages.

• Omeka S theme: Multilingual. Allows for end-user language switching and more thorough translation capabilities when used with its related modules.
• Omeka S module: Internationalisation. Enables translation of Omeka S pages and sites.
• Omeka S module: Translations. Enables translation of Omeka S metadata/resource templates.
• Omeka S module: Transcript. Provides an interactive, translation-enabled transcript for captioned video and audio items.
• Omeka S module: GroupEdit. Flips the traditional permissions system to a bottom-up approach, where community groups have the ability to manage their own subsites.
• Omeka S module: PageBlocks. Adds additional modular, customizable page elements to Omeka S.
• Omeka S module: SimplePDF. Allows .pdf files to be embedded within Omeka S. It improves on existing solutions by providing better mobile browser compatibility and screen reader accessibility.

Other multilingual archiving resources

Cataloging, Metadata, and Preservation

• AREPR Manual de Metadatos (Español)
• AREPR Metadata Manual (English)
• Cómo: Formulario de recogida de elementos y hoja de cálculo (Español)
• How to: Item Collection Form and Spreadsheet
• Introducción a la Preservación Workshop 16 Octubre 2020
• AREPR Metadata and Omeka S Workshop 20 Noviembre 2020

Oral Histories

• Conducting Oral Histories Workshop 06 Noviembre 2020
• AREPR Transcription and Translation Workshop 13 Noviembre 2020
• AREPR Partially Automated Workflow for WebVTT Caption Generation
• Consent Form

Community Technology Kits

• Descripción General de la Tecnología Comunitaria para AREPR
• AREPR Community Technology Unboxing
• Oral History Technology Workshop 30 Octubre 2020

Publications

• “Post-custodial Praxis: Building Shared Context Through Decolonial Archiving.” Scholarly Editing. (2022). Authors: Christina Boyles, Andy Boyles Petersen, Elisa Landaverde, and Robin Dean. 
• “dLOC as Practice: Decolonial Approaches to Listening and Remembering.” archipelagos. (2022). Authors: Ricia Chansky and Christina Boyles. 
• “Resilience, Recovery, and Refusal: The (Un)tellable Narratives of post-María Puerto Rico.” enculturation. 32 (2020). Author: Christina Boyles. 
• “The Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico (AREPR): Preserving the Cultural Legacy of Puerto Rico.” Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities. (Spring 2020): n.p.