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Mexican and Argentine presidential messages, 1821-1993

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Description & Rationale
Access Provisions: 

Content will be hosted on CRL's DDSNext server as Open Access resources. 

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Proposal to convert and upgrade the digital collection of Mexican and Argentine presidential speeches from the 19th century orginially scanned by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP).

In 2000, LARRP converted over 75,000 frames of microfilmed Spanish-language government documents to digital format. The material was originally microfilmed by the Library of Congress (Argentina) and LAMP (Mexico) on LARRP's behalf. The converted materials were hosted by LANIC at the University of Texas at Austin as GIF files, with larger TIFF files available for downloading.

We propose to harvest the TIFF images from LANIC/Texas (with permission) and to re-process the files to capture full text  (OCR) and related metadata.

Reasons for consideration: 

The project's original goals were to broaden the array of Latin Americanist resources available to students and scholars, to restructure access to these collection on a comprehensive scale and to assist libraries in containing costs. However, the resources were scanned without full-text searchability and limited indexing. 

Original project site: http://lanic.utexas.edu/larrp/pm/sample2/  [1]

Author(s): 
Mexico. President, Argentina. President
Publisher(s): 
varies
Source Format: 
From Digital
Target Format: 
Digital
Program: 
LARRP
GCI Latin America
Resource Types: 
Government documents
Regions: 
Latin America and Caribbean
Countries of Origin: 
Argentina
Mexico
Proposal Contributors: 

Melissa Guy, UT Austin agreed to allow CRL to harvest the materials for re-hosting.

Posted: 
Oct 2, 2018 3:49pm
Updated: 
Jan 14, 2019 3:17pm
Source Details
Major Languages: 
Spanish
Holding Institutions: 
University of Texas at Austin [for LARRP]
OCLC: 
37045492
Links: 
Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages (original site) [2]
Physical Details: 

23,380 images of Argentine material and 51,686 image files of Mexican material. The original scans are 300 dpi TIFFs, and are generally 75-100K with CCITT Group 4 compression. The uncompressed size of each page is approximately 600K. The GIF versions of these pages are meant mainly for onscreen viewing.

Existing Reformatted Materials: 

Selected material may have been digitized through other programs such as HathiTrust. 

Intellectual Property Considerations: 

Government publications, no copyright issues.

Activity
StatusCurrentDescription
FlaggednoThe proposal is flagged for further research.
VettedyesThe proposal has been examined and vetted.
BallottednoThe proposal is currently on a committee ballot.
ApprovednoThe proposal has been selected for reformatting. Reformatting efforts are pending.
ReformattednoThe proposal has been reformatted and access information is now posted.
Inactive / DeclinednoNo longer under consideration for reformatting.

Source URL: https://gcollections.crl.edu/resources/mexican-and-argentine-presidential-messages-1821-1993

Links
[1] http://lanic.utexas.edu/larrp/pm/sample2/ 
[2] http://lanic.utexas.edu/larrp/pm/sample2/