Developing a Foundation for the Archive of Constraint

Developed as a born-digital project that integrates a series of digitized visual and textual media, this project relies on a robust cataloging system that works with complex metadata categorization developed by Indigenous and diasporic archivists and librarians. As an interdisciplinary, public-facing, digital humanities project, "The Archive of Constraint" provides a resource for researchers, students, and creative practitioners to access images and digitized material that is not yet available across other institutional archives and collections. As a project developed out of consideration for digital care of ALAANA/BIPOC people, primarily Pilipinx diasporic peoples, this project contains a series of tenants that engage various practical, philosophical, and ethical concerns across humanities scholarship and practice.

While this project primarily functions as a resource and reference for materials derived from a post-1898 Philippine era, this project engages critical contemporary decolonial archiving and librarianship practices, community engagement, GIS mapping technology, and new media interface design.