{"id":11492,"date":"2016-08-15T13:06:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/?p=11492"},"modified":"2018-05-09T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T14:40:26","slug":"green-school-grad-completes-online-archive-of-haitian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiualumni.com\/stay-connected\/alumni-news\/newsroom\/index.php\/2016\/08\/15\/green-school-grad-completes-online-archive-of-haitian-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Green School grad completes online archive of Haitian history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ada<\/strong><\/em>m Silvia MA \u201909 starts work this week at the Library of Congress in D.C.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"adam-silvia-2-1-400x300\"Five years spent archiving centuries of Haitian history may have helped with his application.Just a day after he graduated from the\u00a0Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs<\/a> with a Ph.D. in history, Adam Silvia MA \u201809 started a new job with the United States Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Silvia, who wrote his dissertation on Haiti, created a digital archive, Haiti: An Island Luminous<\/a>, that combines rare books, manuscripts and photographs from libraries and archives in Haiti with commentary by more than 100 scholars from 75 universities around the world.<\/p>\n

Funded by a grant from the Green Family Foundation<\/a>, with additional support from the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center<\/a>, the site is hosted by FIU Libraries<\/a> on the Digital Library of the Caribbean<\/a>\u00a0(dLOC)- a cooperative between FIU, the University of Florida and more than 20 institutions in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

Translated to French and Haitian Creole by professors at the l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Etat d\u2019Ha\u00efti, the site walks users through the complex and often misunderstood history of Haiti, from the Taino Indians who first inhabited the island to the devastating earthquake that killed and injured hundreds of thousands of people in 2010.<\/p>\n

Silvia, who traveled to Haiti for his research, completed the project this summer.<\/p>\n

He said the vision behind the project was not only to build a publicly available resource but also to apply technology in a way that would make what he calls the \u201chistorical assembly line\u201d more transparent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you visit the website, you can look at the sources that archives chose to scan, you can observe how historians, past and present, interpreted those sources and you can see how those perspectives were woven into one seamless narrative,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a multidimensional history.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"an-island-luminous-400x300\"At a launch event for the project in 2011, Kimberly Green, president of the Green Family Foundation, said the project would become a \u201cvital platform highlighting Haiti\u2019s rich cultural heritage and contributions to the world stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to partner with FIU to establish institutionalized memory, and, in working with Haitians, to \u2018build back better\u2019 through cultural competency and elevating the importance of Haitian patrimony,\u2019\u2019 said Green, an award-winning documentary filmmaker who directed and produced the film, \u201cOnce There Was a Country: Revisiting Haiti,\u2019\u2019 narrated by Maya Angelou.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Silvia curated a physical exhibition of the project at the Green Library that included copies of rare books, manuscripts, newspapers and photos, each piece accompanied by sources and commentary.<\/p>\n

Plans are in the works to unveil An Island Luminous at the Haitian Studies Association annual conference in Haiti in November, said Miguel Asencio, director of the Digital Library of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of the reasons why dLOC exists \u2013 to create an effective academic environment so that our students can succeed,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cThe collaboration between many different organizations and across borders \u2013 our Caribbean partners, other universities and the Green family \u2013 are proof of what is possible when a community works together toward shared goals. We continue to develop these partnerships to inspire others to follow Adam\u2019s great example.\u201d<\/p>\n

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