May 24, 2021 • Natalia Mora This semester was bittersweet. Although Chloe and I managed to finish the database codification process it also meant the last semester of work on the project.  The database brought a lot of obstacles and difficult decisions. We often wondered if we were making the right choices in terms of […]

When the semester started I knew that it would be my last year working on the GAM project through Haverford. All of the compañerxs were asked what we wanted to work on and when Chloe introduced us to her summer work on codifying the database I felt that working on that made the most sense. However…

This post is a summary of the work done by three compañerxs on the archive database and the codification of said database in hopes to make the archive more user friendly.

Working on the database codification has been quite frustrating: from the monotony of ctrl+f down to combing through the archive itself to find information that isn’t obvious from the case descriptions within the database…

Throughout history, the United States government has often found itself involved in wars outside of its own borders, especially those during the Cold War in Latin America. Such was the case during Guatemala’s armed conflict…

Summer 2018 • Natalia Mora This summer I would have traveled along with three other Haverford students and professors to Guatemala to help the Grupo Apoyo Mutuo (GAM), a nonprofit organization, digitize their archive. All students are Digital Scholars Compañeros, who have been working with the GAM since the start of the school year. Aside from […]