Mexican and Argentine presidential messages, 1821-1993

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Description & Rationale

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/

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)

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

Status	Current	Description
Flagged	no	The proposal is flagged for further research.
Vetted	yes	The proposal has been examined and vetted.
Ballotted	no	The proposal is currently on a committee ballot.
Approved	no	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.