Venezuela and The Turbulent 1960s - Presidential Archive of Raúl Leoni

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Description & Rationale

The Presidential Archive of Raúl Leoni is a collection of personal papers and official documents that is in urgent need of digitization in order to make them more easily accessible to scholars and the community. To this end, the Fundación Red Historia Digital Venezolana (or Venezuela History Network) and the Fundación Raúl y Menca Leoni have been working together on the development of a digital repository for these documents in order to preserve this invaluable cache of cultural heritage. We propose to digitize the entire archive, generate the corresponding metadata for each document at the item level, and promote the archive’s content online through the creation of an open-access repository hosted by the Venezuela History Network website. All members of the team proposed in this project have been trained in document digitization using overhead scanners (CZUR 3000 PRO) as well as in the process of metadata generation

Reasons for consideration:

The proposed collection is broad in scope, and will be valuable for scholars from various disciplines such as history, political science, international relations, economics, education and anthropology. This digitization project will provide researchers throughout the world with original primary sources needed to reconstruct and discover new historical facts and interpretations, challenging official narratives about this period.

Author(s):

Presidential Archive of Raúl Leoni is part of the Fundación Raúl y Menca Leoni

Source Format:

Paper

Target Format:

Digital

Program:

LAMP

Resource Types:

Archival materials

Government documents

Other

Regions:

Latin America and Caribbean

Countries of Origin:

Venezuela

Proposal Contributors:

Participants: Fundación Red Historia Digital Venezolana (Red Historia Venezuela) , Fundación Raúl y Menca Leoni, Duke University Libraries, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Libraries, University of Texas

Posted:

Apr 11, 2023 12:18pm

Updated:

Aug 1, 2023 4:06pm

Source Details

Major Languages:

Spanish

Additional Identifiers:

Metadata
The Dublin Core metadata schema will be used.

Physical Details:

The total number of documents in this collection is 19,322, totaling 30,249 pages (and digital captures).

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.