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MEAP Board Member, Vincent Hiribarren, has been part of the MEAP team since our launch in 2018. In this article(opens in a new tab) in Revue d’histoire, Hiribarren talks with Louise Barré about funding opportunities for archival preservation through MEAP program and his commitment to creating access to global knowledge. The article highlights Hiribarren's participation in digitization projects in Benin, Ivory Coast, Congo-Brazzaville, Madagascar, Mali and Nigeria in collaboration with national archives and other collection holders.
Hiribarren also notes that digitization programs, like MEAP, support the work of historians by creating access to sources at a time of reduced travel funding. Digital libraries that provide access to primary sources can help scholars conduct research with unique and essential sources.
Our aim is to move beyond the official documents usually studied by nationalist historians and showcase the archives of groups fighting for equality and justice. It goes without saying that these archives may also contain significant biases […]. From an academic point of view, all these alternative viewpoints are extremely useful to document history and help us rebalance the way we write.
Barré, Louise, and Hiribarren, Vincent, 'Le Modern Endangered Archives Program, un programme mondial de numérisation de fonds textuels, iconographiques et audiovisuels des 20e et 21e siècles’(opens in a new tab), 20 & 21. Revue d’histoire, 158.2 (2023), 167–72
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