Proyecto Humboldt Digital: Selección de corpus y prioridad de digitalización (fuentes en La Habana)

Proyecto Humboldt Digital

The German-Cuban research and digitization initiative "Proyecto Humboldt Digital" (ProHD) has made important sources on "Humboldt and Cuba" digitally accessible for the first time during its project period (2019-2023). The project, carried out jointly by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana (OHCH), has digitized rare sources from various archives in the Cuban capital and published them in a project repository (https://prohd.ohc.cu/xmlui). The project has also published a selection of Humboldt related manuscripts - from Cuban collections and from the Humboldt Papers in Berlin and Krakow - as a facsimile edition under the title "Digitales Dossier: Humboldt und Kuba 1800–1830" (https://dossierdigital.ohc.cu). 

The documents selected for the digital dossier from the Cuban archives are largely the result of cooperation with the following institutions:

• Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba (ARNAC)
• Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística "José Antonio Portuondo Valdor" (ILL)
• Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana (OHCH)
  • Archivo Histórico;
  • Biblioteca del Gabinete de Arqueología;
  • Biblioteca Histórica Cubana y Americana "Francisco González del Valle".

The purpose of this dataset

The digitization campaign was coordinated through a shared living document with information on Cuban primary sources for the project corpus. The document was primarily used for data aggregation and project management (prioritization of digitization). A reduced version is published here for the purpose of archiving the relevant research data.

Further readings

Kraft, Tobias; Rojas Castro, Antonio; Terrón Quintero, Grisel (Eds.) (2024): Archivos Abiertos. El patrimonio documental cubano y la transformación digital. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (Latin American Literatures in the World / Literaturas Latinoamericanas en el Mundo, 19). Available online at https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111187846/html. (available in September 2024)

Kraft, Tobias (2024): Neue Quellen zu Humboldts Kuba-Forschung. Das „Digitale Dossier“ des Proyecto Humboldt Digital (2019-2023). In HiN – Alexander von Humboldt im Netz. Internationale Zeitschrift für Humboldt-Studien 25 (48). Available online at https://doi.org/10.18443/373. (available in May 2024)

Rojas Castro, Antonio; Terrón Quintero, Grisel; Solernou Ferrer, Alaina; Kraft, Tobias (2023): Cómo crear ediciones digitales académicas entre La Habana y Berlín. El caso de Proyecto Humboldt Digital (ProHD). In jtei. Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (16), pp. 1–24. Available online at https://doi.org/10.4000/jtei.4560.

Rojas Castro, Antonio; Kraft, Tobias; Terrón Quintero, Grisel; Kraller, Kathrin; Solernou Ferrer, Alaina; Guerra Figueredo, Eritk (2023): Criterios de selección de fuentes de Proyecto Humboldt Digital (ProHD). Version 1.0.1 (2020). Zenodo. Available online at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7564754.

Rojas Castro, Antonio; Kraft, Tobias; Terrón Quintero, Grisel (2023): Política de digitalización de Proyecto Humboldt Digital (ProHD). Version 1.0.1 (2020). Zenodo. Available online at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7564856.

Project Sites

• Digital Repository
• Digital Edition
• Project Website and Blog