Baja California Human Rights Commission Archives Case Digitization

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Description & Rationale

After a successful pilot during the summer of 2017, the University of San Diego (USD) - Copley Library will digitize the case backlog on the Fall 2020/Spring 2021 destruction schedule. Cases go as far back as the 1990s before there was a Comisión Estatal de los Derechos Humanos de Baja California (CEDH). These cases hold information on the types of abuses that were filed during that time along the Baja California/California border. The data in these cases, many of which were terminated, closed or dismissed before full investigations were completed, will provide a snapshot of the region for border scholars and historians alike. The goal of this project is to eventually make all of these older cases available for research and data mining online via DigitalUSD, USD's Institutional Repository. This proposal is asking for funding for Phase 1 to digitize all of the material due for destruction within the next fiscal year 2020-2021.

Reasons for consideration:

Border scholars on the border region of Mexico and the United Stats are interested in data on human rights violations. Border scholars in the San Diego region have expressed interest in the possibility of data mining Human Rights cases--except these haven't been digitized. Only the recommendations (cases that make it to the National Human Rights Commission) are digitized, and only the most recent recommendations have been anonymized. The CEDH human rights lawyers have also expressed interest to see past cases digitized. Currently, they only have access to the details of these cases in a minimal format: case number and case resolution. Digitization and anonymization of the data would allow researchers and citizens alike to learn the details of these cases.

Author(s):

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Publisher(s):

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Source Format:

Paper

Target Format:

Digital

Program:

LARRP

Resource Types:

Archival materials

Regions:

Latin America and Caribbean

North America

Countries of Origin:

Mexico

Proposal Contributors:

Alma Ortega, University of San Diego

Posted:

May 29, 2020 4:38pm

Updated:

Jun 11, 2020 3:15pm

Activity

Status	Current	Description
Flagged	no	The proposal is flagged for further research.
Vetted	no	The proposal has been examined and vetted.
Ballotted	no	The proposal is currently on a committee ballot.
Approved	yes	The proposal has been selected for reformatting. Reformatting efforts are pending.
Reformatted	no	The proposal has been reformatted and access information is now posted.
Inactive / Declined	no	No longer under consideration for reformatting.