The Digital-traditional (DT) Creation

Week 11 New Information Searching Anything Else I talked to the Senior Archivist Burak Ogreten and he showed me a few posters from the José Guerra Alemán collection. One of the items was a cinematography poster that José Guerra Alemán directed when he founded his company called CINEPERIODICO. The film was supposedly called Sangre and Esperanza (Blood and Hope) and it is based on the harassment of the G-2 (military term for the main state intelligence agency of the Government of Cuba) (Fig. 1). With the help of his other counterparts, José García and Eduardo Hernández (Guayo), he created many documentary films based on the theme of independence from colonialism and imperialism. However, his work does not seem to be mentioned on the internet. I have google searched in general and in the search box from imdb.com. His films do not appear. The historical films cannot be found so easily or many of them are hard to retrieve. Fig. 1. "Sangre Y Esperanza La Cuba de Hoy." (Cour...

Week 10 Finishing Up Clean Up and Put Things in Order! I am revising and editing my bio on Jose Guerra Alemán. I need to make another version without the images so it can be uploaded onto the UCF library special collection page under Jose Guerra Alemán. I am finishing the inventory page for this collection. Beforehand, I started a copy, but I did not quite like the way it came out so I redid the format of the inventory. I also am looking back at each box and recording the folders I created and some of the items that were in the boxes. I know in each box there are similar themes and have the same Folder names so eventually, those Folders would be combined with the same box. But for now, I think this is a good start. The important thing is the staff knows what each box contains because the items are mostly in Spanish. I also want to include a document of all the changes Jose Guerra Alemán made from his old draft to the final draft of his Cuba Infinita  encyclopedias. I am th...

Week 9 Wrapping it Up Finalizing the Alemán Family's story I have continued with the biography on Jose Guerra Alemán. Under the grant for the Veterans Legacy Program, I have used the skills that I have learned there to help me write this biography. I was exposed to see my colleagues' format and structure of their veteran's biography. I will soon be done. I just need to find a document where one of Jose Braulio Alemán's wife, Maria Ivonne Dupuy, wrote a letter where she mentioned her husband's role as Minister of Education and expresses her perspective when he worked in that position. However, I am struggling in finding it again. I also need to revise my footnotes and to include a caption to a few photos I uploaded with the biography. Looking back to the primary sources such as photos and letters, I have been able to connect certain things like who's who. In the Alemán's family, they had nicknames for many of the members. For instance, Jose Guerra Alemá...

Week 8 Putting Together All Gathered Information Connecting the Dots! Today is a successful day. I finished looking and organizing the 12 boxes of this collection. I have learned a lot in understanding the process of archiving new materials. I learned that it is tedious work in the archiving business, especially when I dealt with another language and I was the only one who could understand it. It helps when you are stuck and can ask someone for reference or to double check your findings, but in this case, I was on my own for the most part when it came to understanding the Spanish language. I did have my family that I asked for help in deciphering what the cursive word was in the primary source, for instance; however, it was up to me to do the task well and make sure I translate what the boxes contained so when other reviewers review them again they will know what each box contains. I am now working on Jose Guerra Alemán's biography. I am taking the primary sources I have foun...