IS 207: International Issues and Comparative Research in
Library and Information Science
Winter 2002
CHIAPAS PROJECT (Due: March 12th) http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/chu/count-aia/chiapas

IS 207

Assignment Information

Contacts

Chiapas History

AGECH

PROIMMSE

Photographs (see others in "Links")

Links (information resources, photos, web design ideas)

Chiapas Project (OLD SITE) Please visit NEW Chiapas Information Site

 


The Chiapas Project will allow the students in the IS 207 class to experience the development of several websites on historical resources on the state of Chiapas in Mexico. These include three bilingual (Spanish/English) websites:

History and Archives of Chiapas
Team members: Katheryn Gallant, Jun Kamata

General Archives of the State of Chiapas (Archivo General del Estado de Chiapas (AGECH), México)
Team members: Alessandra Lee, Alma Ortega, Marisol Ramos-Lum

Historical Archives of the State of Chiapas (Archivo Histórico del Estado de Chiapas (AHECH), México)
Team members: Silvia Calzada, RuthAnn García, Todd Honma, Chungsil Kim, Chisa Uyeki

Technical liaison and leader: Sarah Smith

The IS 207 students will have the opportunity to collaborate with students in the LIS program in Chiapas (Programa de Bibliotecología, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (UNACH)) who will assist in the provision of content. IS 207 Students have been assigned to teams based on interest and expertise and one student will serve as the lead on technical issues. Each design team will develop their website in coordination with the other teams and with technical assistance from the Technical Leader. Since the class will not be able to travel, we will work with the materials that will be made available to us by the UNACH students, our contacts, and other material we find locally or on the Internet.  Contacts for the project are:

It is planned that the AGECH and AHC websites will be adopted by the respective organizations. The draft websites will be posted on March 9th for preview. Presentations and submissions of websites will be in class on March 12th.  Please submit website on a diskette.

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Manual de Organización/Organization Manual (Word Spanish document, 12 pages - available in MIT Lab Reserves)


Manual de Procedimiento/Operations Manual (Word Spanish document, 83 pages - available in MIT Lab Reserves)


Programa de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Mesoamérica y el Sureste- IIA- UNAM (PROIMMSE) document (Word bilingual document, 13 pages - available in MIT Lab Reserves). Sample of first page of document:

Rescue of the documental heritage of Chiapas:
The county of San Cristóbal

(RECUPERACIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO HISTORICO DOCUMENTAL DE CHIAPAS:
EL MUNICIPIO DE SAN CRISTÓBAL)

@ Federico Morales Barragán (PROIMMSE-IIA-UNAM)
Dolores Palomo Infante (CIESAS Sureste)
Justus Fenner (PROIMMSE-IIA-UNAM)

Archives in Chiapas

The situation of administrative and private archives in the State of Chiapas, México, is far from being satisfactory. Historians and other investigators see themselves frequently obligated to seek information en archives outside Chiapas - archives that are organized and accessible as are those of Spain, Guatemala, or the City of México. Even though Chiapas suffered heavy losses in historic documentation and sees itself constantly confronted with difficulties in financing the rescue and maintenance of its archives, the situation for researchers could be improved considerably. Calculating between 700 and 800 archives on state level, just 5 of them are considered consultable.

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LINKS

Basic information about Chiapas and related topics: http://www.chiapas.com.mx/Estado/corzo.html

Information Institutions in Chiapas List (English/Spanish), by Antonio J.T. López http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/chu/chiapas/infoplaces.htm

A search on "archivos chiapas" on the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) http://lanic.utexas.edu/ or http://www.lanic.org produced brief descriptions on three Chiapas archives http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tavera/mexico/:
>Archivo Histórico de Chiapas http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tavera/mexico/chiapas1.html
>Archivo General del Estado de Chiapas http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tavera/mexico/chiapas2.html
> Archivo Diocesano de Chiapas (San Cristóbal de las Casas) http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/tavera/mexico/cristobal.html
Additional searches may produce other relevant information.

Photographs of AGECH taken by Antonio J.T. López and posted by Francisco García: http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/chiapas/fotos1.html Also see other photographs posted by Dr. Chu http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/chu/chiapas/photos.htm

Website design ideas:
Antonio J.T. López prototype model: http://server2024.virtualave.net/toeknee/index.htm
Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School (UES) http://www.ues.gseis.ucla.edu
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) http://lanic.utexas.edu/ or http://www.lanic.org
LANIC - Libraries and Archives http://lanic.utexas.edu/subject/libraries/
Programa de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias sobre Mesoamérica y el Sureste- IIA- UNAM (PROIMMSE) http://proimmse.unam.mx
UNESCO Archives Portal http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/Archives/National_Archives/index.shtml
Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico) http://www.agn.gob.mx/
Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos (DIBAM, Chile) http://www.dibam.cl
See templates at http://www.windyweb.com

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