As part of an ongoing research and development agenda, LANIC is involved in several projects that seek to develop innovative approaches using new information and communication technologies to access, collect, organize, preserve and disseminate information from and about Latin America to the broadest possible audience.
The following documents provide details regarding some of our new and recently-launched projects:
- Mining Hidden Gems: Building a Latin American Open
Archives Portal for Scholars
Mining Hidden Gems is the Latin American component of a global effort to broaden access to research materials from around the world. The program is funded under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education's Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access - TICFIA.
- Political Communications Web Archiving
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded an investigation and planning effort, coordinated by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), on the preservation of Web-based political communications. The investigation is to help ensure long-term availability of the important documents and messages disseminated via the World Wide Web by non-governmental political groups and parties.
To find out more about our research activities, you may also consult this directory of previous and ongoing projects.