Abstract
The Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum and the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives partnered in the mid-2010s in the only known effort to digitize and make available to the public a substantial collection of Hawaiian plantation employee records. This paper features a multi-disciplinary approach to these records and includes a discussion on the necessity of a comprehensive historical and sociological contextual understanding of the populations that the records document; the digital humanities work that has been done using the raw data from the records; and the digital future of the records.
Presenters
Sonia PachecoSocial Sciences Librarian, Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States Catherine Titzer
Stanford University
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Digital Humanities; Sociology; History; Digital Records
