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MEAP is excited to announce the publication of a new Digital Projects Guide. The guide is designed to help MEAP applicants and grantees plan, organize, and execute successful digitization projects.

A student at SDSU created storymaps that geolocate postcards from the MEAP funded Archivo Histórico de Tijuana project. Student engagement with digital collections opens up new ways of understanding.

The team at Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken offers a glimpse into the work of digitizing and documenting a multi-media collection.

MEAP invites all users to explore our available documentation. Applicants, grantees, researchers, and instructors can all find meaningful materials to creating or engaging with digital collections.

Mali Minister of Culture visits the National Museum of Mali and learns about MEAP funded efforts to digitize audiovisual materials from the museum collection.

Five recently completed Planning Grants detail collections of artists, politicians, and fishermen as well as under represented community voices.

The recently published inventory from Museo Marino de Margarita documents the collection of Dr. Fernando Cervigón and reveals daily life of fishing communities of Cubagua (Venezuela).

MEAP Grantee, Alexandre Fortes, led a workshop Peripheral Archiving Workshop - Theory and Practice at Museu da Maré, sharing insight and practices with another MEAP grant project.

MEAP project lead, Ophélie Rillon reflects on her work with the Archives of the Union of Teachers of Burkina Faso in a new article in Revue d’histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique.

As MEAP kicks off a new year of applications, we reflect on the 21 completed projects from Cohort 2.

MEAP team members participated in numerous professional conferences in December and January, promoting funding opportunities and connecting with grantees.

The Modern Endangered Archives Program's digitized collections help to advance UCLA's teaching and learning mission

UCLA Library's Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) preserves endangered cultural heritage worldwide

MEAP was part of a discussion about preserving cultural heritage during times of war at the Timely Archives, Timely Connections Conference marking 20 years of the Endangered Archives Programme.

Elizabeth Lhost recently presented at a CoRSAL (Computational Resource for South Asian Languages) symposium, highlighting the linguistic diversity of MEAP collections from South Asia.

A curatorial statement about the Bailey's History Archive Digital Collection.

MEAP Panel Member, Vincent Hiribarren, highlighted his work with MEAP for the Royal Historical Society. Hiribarren invites scholars to expand their teaching and research through MEAP collections.

MEAP has been featured in the UCLA student newspaper, the Daily Bruin. Coverage highlights our recently funded projects and the potential of digitization for cultural heritage preservation.

Online discussion on Oct 21, 2024 with MEAP project leads Sydney Silverstein, Amanda Smith, and Eva Willems. The panel explored cultural heritage digitization in Peru and MEAP project details.

Program’s Sixth Cohort Reflects Continued Growth and Expanded Opportunity

Présentation de l’équipe/Team Presentation: The sound archives of Radio Rurale de Kayes (Mali)

MEAP invites applications for its seventh cohort of projects designed to preserve, document, and digitize at-risk cultural heritage collections. Apply online now. Applications due Nov 15, 2024.

Coventry University highlights MEAP grant to digitize photographs at Hamilton Studios in Mumbai, documenting and preserving 20 years of Indian history following partition.

UC Davis Letters & Science features one of the first funded MEAP Regional Grants with a deep dive into Professor Charles Walker’s digitization project with three Human Rights organizations across Peru

Through the Lens of an Adivasi: Bishop Dr Nirmal Minz (1927-2021)

Oraons are the second largest Adivasi community of Jharkhand who prefer to call themselves Kurukh or Kurukhar. Kurukh is also the name of the language spoken by them.

Exhibition featuring posters and documents from the Tallersol Cultural Center at the Centro Cultural La Moneda in Santiago, Chile

Check out summer 2024 highlights from the MEAP team and project teams around the world.

The Center for Art & Archaeology (CA&A) of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) hosted a two-day virtual workshop titled Photo and Negative Digitization & Dissemination.

Modern Endangered Archives Program publishes more than 70,000 objects from 36 collections on the UCLA Digital Library

Grantees and board members discussed MEAP projects at the recent Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Asia conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in July 2024.

Using a vocabulary like Homosaurus ensures that queer and trans people can represent their own experiences with expansive terminology.

MEAP recognizes the contributions of our graduate student assistants by highlighting the invaluable work they do behind the scenes to prepare MEAP metadata for publication.

Highlighting MEAP collections that reflect LGBTQ+ activism and experiences from around the world.

Celebrating 14 grantees who persisted through Covid-19 lockdowns and challenging delays to model how MEAP projects can successfully preserve cultural heritage and amplify community voices.

A description and historical narrative of the Soweto Black Organization, a civil, social action, non-profit organization founded in 1991 after a decade of activism and mobilization.

Memoria Abierta launches a Digital Publications Library, making accessible magazines and other periodicals from 8 Human Rights organizations in Argentina.

MEAP student associate, Alyssa Davis, explores the tension between theory in practice by using MEAP as a case study for a Digital Preservation class.

The previous Focus on Metadata post offered tips for creating clear and meaningful subject terms. In this follow up, we examine the pros and cons of using different controlled vocabularies.

Amanda M. Smith has published an open access essay about her work leading an MEAP digitization project in Iquitos. Smith adds local context for the project.

MEAP-funded Cultural Mediators conducted field work across Mali to engage communities in the creation of metadata. This work ensures robust description and open access to the digital collection.

MEAP Planning Grants support early phases of archival preservation, including organization, documentation, and securing permissions. Projects result in robust reports and inventories.

The Photo Jack collection shows the diversity of northern Lebanon and its communities across religious, ethnic, cultural and class lines. Mapping the collection can illuminate this diversity.

A personal story from Maruja Pierina Zárate Moreno about working with the Biblioteca Amazónica in Iquitos, Peru.

MEAP honors Black History Month by highlighting MEAP collections that illuminate Black Histories across the Americas, focusing on funded projects in Haiti, Barbados, Brazil and Uruguay.

In a recent guest lecture, MEAP Director, Rachel Deblinger, invited students to think about the human choices and technical infrastructures that build archives.

This month’s Focus on Metadata provides recommendations for employing subject terms that accurately describe your collection and help users find meaning in the digital library.

Interview with Vincent Hiribarren about MEAP. Article in French in 20 & 21. Revue d’histoire (2023).

MEAP stakeholders discussed MEAP at the Conference on Latin American History as part of the AHA Annual Meeting held in San Francisco in January 2024.

The Modern Endangered Archives Program launched its first Call for Applications in 2018 under the program title, Documenting Global Voices. We have been working to expand access to cultural heritage materials ever since.

MEAP is excited to announce the publication of new metadata documents to support documentation and digitization projects.

This article honors the legacy of Dr. Kim Dunphy, an early MEAP grantee, and provides reflections on the impact of digitization and access to the Justino Valentim collection from Timor Leste.

As you put the finishing touches on your Winter Quarter and Spring Semester courses, MEAP invites you to explore our open access collections of primary source print, audio, and video materials.

In honor of Human Rights Day, MEAP highlights four projects that document and preserve collections related to the fight for Human Rights in Latin America.

Amalia Levi, the project lead of Ephemera from the Barbados Department of Archives, reflects on MEAP, working through the pandemic, and the potential of digital archives.

An invitation to examine political posters as visual data and to create visualizations of the data created through the digitization process.

In honor of Audio Visual Heritage Day on October 27, 2023, MEAP is highlighting AV projects and available resources to recognize the work of preserving sound and moving image materials.

MEAP celebrates publication of over 55,000 unique archival objects from 28 collections, 19 countries

This activity uses the Storiiies viewer to annotate photographs, inviting students to share observations and insights.

During the Annual Conference on South Asia, MEAP highlights projects documenting and preserving at-risk cultural heritage materials from the region.

In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, explore a selection of MEAP projects that preserve and document the experiences of Indigenous communities around the world.

Insights and highlights from our first online symposium bringing together project leads from Peru, Brazil, and Uruguay to discuss the role of digitization in understanding regional history.

MEAP collections can help students think broadly about primary sources and engage in different modes of inquiry and investigation.

MEAP invites applications for its sixth cohort of projects designed to preserve, document, and digitize at-risk cultural heritage collections. The call new updated opportunities for 2023.

From Ukraine to Nigeria, the Modern Endangered Archives Program continues to support cultural heritage preservation projects around the world.

Stay up to date on the latest funding opportunities, new collections and stories from around the global MEAP community

In the first of a new series of Community Profiles, we will look at the work of Felipe Bellocq and the team at Cine Casero to inventory, catalog, and preserve the film collection of Carlos Alonso.

In honor of World Photography Week, MEAP highlights photography collections around the world

Join us for an online symposium exploring cultural heritage preservation in South America with three MEAP project teams. Registration required.

Lhost will work closely with Modern Endangered Archives Program grantees around the world to support the documentation and digitization of at-risk cultural heritage collections.

These two documents support active use of the CCP Digital Archive by providing a list of abbreviations and the classification system that orients the archival description.

Documents from the CCP Archive provide insight about the peasant movement in Peru from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.

These guides will help you explore the the Confederación Campesina del Perú Archive and understand how to best use the digital collection.

The history and legacy of the CCP. This article also details the CCP Archive recovery work funded by MEAP. The team cleaned, organized, classified, and digitized over 500 objects from the archive.

The collection comes from the Photo Jack photography studio (1939 - 1997 in Tripoli, Lebanon). The images show the diversity of northern Lebanon and its communities.

MEAP Project team formally launched Ustadh Mau Digital Library project on 11 January 2023.

The MEAP project team for Film Collection of the News Program El Mundo al Dia (Dominican Republic) presented at the 9th annual Dominican History Book Fair on October 27, 2022.

Originally published in the Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine (October 2022)

Published in the Daily Bruin, Oct 2, 2022

$13 million from Arcadia will support bolstering the Modern Endangered Archives Program

Modern Endangered Archives Program announces fourth cohort of 28 funded projects, over 12,000 digital objects now accessible

The Modern Endangered Archives Program's second cohort broadens its global reach at a time when such efforts are dwindling.

The Modern Endangered Archives Program has funded 29 new projects that will preserve at-risk materials.

Entertainment and education through film in India By Ritika Kaushik

An exploration of Radio Comes to Rampur (1999), director Asha Dutta, & other women filmmakersBy Dr. Simran Bhalla

Recognizing the Tension Between Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Realities

A user guide for the Barbados Ephemera collection

Ephemera from the Barbados Department of Archives

MEAP invites applications for its fifth cohort of projects designed to preserve and digitize collections at-risk from environmental conditions, political uncertainty, unsustainable media, inappropriate storage, or communal and social change.