People with History, History with People:
Archives and Participatory Methods in Colombia’s Pacific Coast region
Thank you to many collaborators:
Daniel Tubb, Kelly López Roldán, Yuri Romaña Rivas, María Fernanda Parra Ramírez, Sergio Mosquera, Andrew Janco, Cynthia Heider, Jesse Jonkman, Wilmar Cano, Claudia Leal, Brie Gettleson, Gonzalo Díaz Cañadas, Sandra Martínez, Doug and Mary Marshall, Eliecer Angulo Castro, Angélica Agualimpia Copete, Laura Caicedo, Milagros Gonzalez, Javier Hurtado Ibargüen, Ernestina Lemos Rentería, Yusleyda Perea Cuesta, Jhon Leison Rivas Rodríguez, Nallely Taborda Castañeda, Yeison Vente.
Location of the Chocó
Map credit: Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC)
Colombia
In front of Colombia's National Archive, 2023
In Istmina, 2022
*funded by Arcadia (British Library, EAP1477)
the work of photographing and digitizing the archive was done by
Angélica Aqualimpia, Yeison Vente, and Daniel Varela
in photo: Yeison Vente of @formatonegro
Semillero (in Quibdó, 2022-23)
*funded by Canada's SSHRC and Universities of Michigan, New Brunswick, and Pennsylvania
the work of cataloging and the creation of youth-authored essays was done in collaboration with
Fundación Muntú Bantú and Kelly López Roldán, University of Pennsylvania
Semillero (in Quibdó, 2024-25)
*funded by Villanova University's Lepage center
Seminar on industrialization and de-industrialization 2024-25 - at Univ. Tecnólogica Diego Luis Córdoba,
in collaboration with:
Sergio Mosquera, Fundación Muntú Bantú, and Kelly López Roldán, University of Pennsylvania
Other aspects of project: Experments with eScriptorium:
Other aspects of project: Experments with Visual Language:
Other aspects of Project: Output that's more readable
Base-line Segementer (kraken.blla)
Chunking
Processing for readability
Other aspects of project: *thanks to Daniel Tubb and Andy Janco
Text
Andy and Daniel
Other aspects of project: Daniel Tubb and Andy Janco
1930 Luis Enrique Bernal Contra Nicanor Córdoba y Juan Francisco Moreno
Thank you!
Yale 2025
By Ann Farnsworth-Alvear,
