CFAs: Memory of the World Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean

The purpose of the call is to incorporate into the “Memory of the World Register of Latin America and the Caribbean”, the document or documentary set, of an archival, bibliographic or audiovisual nature, existing in countries of the Region, with relevance for the collective memory of Latin American and Caribbean society.

Characteristics

• Migratory flows;
• Cultural, personal, artistic, scientific or commercial exchanges;
• The struggle for land and geopolitical changes;
• The colonial past;
• The development of native populations or languages;
• The richness of natural resources, their biodiversity and their endemic species;
• The origin and development of dictatorships in the twentieth century;
• The struggle for human rights.

Eligibility Criteria

• Individuals or legal persons, under public or private law, may propose candidacies, individually or in groups.
• Each institution or natural or legal person, public or private, may only submit, individually, a single application per year, without losing the possibility of joining groups that present other candidatures collectively in the same call.
• The application that has as its object the entire collection, of an archival and bibliographic nature, of a custodial institution, public or private, will not be accepted when said candidacy includes various funds or collections.

Evaluation Criteria

• Relevance of the document or documentary set for Latin American and Caribbean history, culture and society;
• Authenticity of the document or documentary set.
• Uniqueness, uniqueness and integrity of the document or documentary set, signifying, its loss or deterioration, an impoverishment of the cultural heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean;
• Accessibility of the document or documentary set, respecting the implicit limitations to its preservation and security;
• Importance of the document or documentary set, in the time and space of its production, taking into account the place, the individuals involved in its generation, the subject or subject treated, as well as its form and style.

Application Requirements

• To formalize the application, it is mandatory to use the Application Form.
• The application documents must be completed in Spanish and English, working languages of the MoWLAC Committee.
• All forms must be submitted in electronic format. The complete file must consist of documents with the following characteristics: texts in PDF format; digitized images of documents and photographs in JPG or TIFF format at 300 dpi and 10 MB maximum (each image); moving images in MPEG format; audio in MP3 format.

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