The Herculean task of digitizing Mexico’s vast indigenos history
The challenge of the 21st century is how to convert over a century of audio, video, text and more into digital formats before it is too late.
In the thick of this for Mexico’s National Institute of Indigenous People (INPI) is head archivist Octavio Murillo Álvarez de la Cadena and his staff, who say that their work is particularly important because “Indigenous peoples have been historically marginalized,” not to mention that many Indigenous cultures are threatened with disappearing or complete assimilation.