This page contains additional information and resources related to the Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI).
Digital Preservation and the LLILAS Benson Post-Custodial Team
Author: David Bliss Source: TexLibris Blog Date: April 27, 2020
MUPI participa en conferencia "Fronteras digitales: derribando muros" en Austin
Author: Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen Source: Actividades Blog Date: September 28, 2019
Guatemalan Human Rights Archive in Imminent Peril
Author: Susanna Sharpe Source: TexLibris Blog Date: July 17, 2019
Alpert-Abrams, H., Bliss, D., & Carbajal, I. (2019). Post-Custodial Archiving for the Collective Good: Examining Neoliberalism in US-Latin American Archival Partnerships. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 2(1), 1-24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v2i1.87
Guberek, T., Muralles, V., & Alpert-Abrams, H. (2019). ‘Irreversible’: The Role of Digitization to Repurpose State Records of Repression. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 13(1), 50–70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijy035
Heath, F., Kelleher, C., Sangwand, T., & Wood, K. (2010). Confronting challenges of documentation in the digital world: the Human Rights Documentation Initiative at the University of Texas. Transforming Research Libraries for the Global Knowledge Society, 165–178. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-1-84334-594-7.50012-0
Kelleher, C., Sangwand, T., Wood, K., & Kamuronsi, Y. (2010). The Human Rights Documentation Initiative at the University of Texas Libraries. New Review of Information Networking, 15(2), 94–109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13614576.2010.528342
Kelleher, C. (2017). Archives Without Archives: (Re)Locating and (Re)Defining the Archive Through Post-Custodial Praxis. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v1i2.29
Sangwand, T. (2018). Preservation is Political: Enacting Contributive Justice and Decolonizing Transnational Archival Collaborations. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 2(1), 10. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/kula.36
Sangwand, T. & Norsworthy, K. (2013). From Custody to Collaboration: The Post-custodial Archival Model at the University of Texas Libraries. Retrieved from https://library.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Univ%20of%20Texas.pdf
AILLA is a digital language archive of recordings, texts, and other multimedia materials in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America. AILLA's mission is to preserve these materials and make them available to Indigenous Peoples, researchers, and other friends of these languages now and for generations to come.
These digitized documents from the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive (AHPN) aim to facilitate scholarly and legal research for the study of Guatemalan history and human rights in the region.
The Latin American Digital Initiatives (LADI) repository is a collaborative project that preserves and provides digital access to unique archival documents from a network of Latin American partners with an emphasis on collections documenting human rights issues and underrepresented communities.
The "Safe Havens for Archives at Risk Initiative" seeks to promote safe haven arrangements that comply with good practice standards defined by the "Guiding Principles for Safe Havens for Archives at Risk". Additionally, the initiative acts as a hub to facilitate archives at risk in finding a potential, suitable hosting institution.