• Metadata Creation for Arquin’s slides (part 1)

    Metadata Creation for Arquin’s slides (part 1)

    Over the last two years, the Arquin Project team has worked on creating metadata for the slides in the collection. We decided early on to use Dublin Core for our metadata terms since it is one of the most common metadata schemas for web content and has been adopted by Omeka, the platform we use to […]

  • The Arquin Slide Project receives a grant from the NEH

    The National Endowment for the Humanities grant will support our project  “Arquin Slide Collection Digitization Project: Preserving the Heritage of Latin America,” which will make approximately 20,000 slides available to the public. Photographed by artist and art educator, Florence Arquin in the 1940s and 50s, the slides provide a glimpse into cities across the world with […]

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