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Portuguese-American Digital Archive (PADA)

Next Steps

1. Seek community partners to promote and fund this project.

2. Enlist a professional archivist/researcher to conduct a thorough survey of existing collections at the Center for Lowell History that contain pertinent Portuguese materials.

3. Assemble a team of Portuguese subject specialists to advise on Collection Development and Outreach Policies and identify collections and records groups to digitize as well as individuals to Oral Histories.

4. Expand the prototype Portuguese Community Archives Omeka site to a full-scale digital archive with best practice metadata, digitization, and presentation.
 


Large group of mill workers posed in front of a mill building. The side of the building has a large American flag. Multiple smaller American flags are held by women in the front row.

 Suffolk Mill Employees with Flags (Photo, Lowell Historical Society)