Digital Scholarship & Infrastructure

My digital humanities work combines cultural studies, archival theory, metadata design, and software development to build research and public humanities infrastructure focused on migration, memory, and cultural production in Latin America and the Caribbean. My projects examine how interfaces, metadata systems, workflows, and preservation strategies shape the production and circulation of cultural memory. My work integrates scholarly research, public humanities, bilingual access, and computational workflows to create sustainable tools for archival preservation, pedagogy, and collaborative knowledge production.

Archivo Venezuela

I am the founder and director of Archivo Venezuela, a bilingual digital archive dedicated to documenting and preserving the cultural production of the Venezuelan diaspora. The project combines digital archiving, metadata curation, public humanities, and collaborative editorial practices to build an accessible and sustainable repository of diasporic cultural memory.

The archive includes literature, film, visual arts, performance documentation, music, graphic narratives, and digital media. It integrates multilingual metadata, OCR-enhanced texts, editorial workflows, and structured archival pipelines designed to support both scholarly research and public engagement.

In addition to curating exhibitions and coordinating collaborations with scholars and artists, I lead the design and development of the archive’s digital infrastructure and metadata ecosystem.

Research Infrastructure & Digital Humanities Tools

To support Archivo Venezuela and related digital humanities initiatives, I have developed a suite of custom applications and archival workflows focused on metadata management, preservation, educational technology, and AI-assisted research infrastructure.

Archivo Studio

Archivo Studio is a modular AI-assisted archival platform designed for ingesting, enriching, reviewing, and exporting cultural heritage metadata. Developed with Next.js and TypeScript, the platform integrates bibliographic APIs, metadata normalization pipelines, bilingual workflows, and editorial review systems.

Core functionalities include:

• metadata ingestion from URLs, ISBNs, and textual inputs,

• multilingual metadata normalization,

• archival deduplication and validation,

• AI-assisted editorial review,

• Omeka-compatible exports,

• structured Dublin Core workflows,

• and archival quality assurance pipelines.

The project was designed to bridge scholarly curation and scalable digital preservation practices while maintaining human editorial oversight.

MARACAS Pro

Bilingual metadata uploader and archival workflow manager for Omeka Classic collections. MARACAS Pro automates metadata normalization, structured CSV ingestion, and multilingual archival workflows while enforcing strict Dublin Core mappings and preservation-oriented standards.

AVOCADO

Metadata enrichment framework integrating OCLC WorldCat APIs and bibliographic reconciliation workflows to support large-scale metadata enhancement and discovery operations for digital archives and research collections.

AREPA

Archival backup and preservation utility developed for Omeka Classic environments. AREPA automates collection backups, metadata exports, retry logic, and preservation reporting to support sustainable archival management.

Omeka CSV Exporter

Lightweight utility for structured metadata extraction and migration workflows across Omeka collections and related archival environments.

Selected Educational Applications 

My digital humanities work also extends into educational technology and experiential learning environments.

FieldScholar

FieldScholar is a mobile-friendly platform designed to support study abroad programs, field-based learning, and global experiential education. The application centralizes logistics, communication, safety protocols, attendance workflows, reflection activities, and academic engagement within a unified platform designed specifically for humanities and language immersion programs.

The platform was piloted through the University of Cincinnati Spanish Immersion Program in Querétaro, Mexico.

Canvas QTI Quiz Generator

Open-source educational utility for generating Canvas-compatible QTI quiz packages through streamlined web-based workflows. The project simplifies quiz creation for instructors while reducing repetitive formatting and LMS configuration tasks.

CocoKids

Bilingual educational arcade designed for elementary-level learners. The platform integrates interactive learning activities, progress tracking, gamification, and accessible multilingual interfaces.

Technical Practice

My development work combines digital humanities methodologies with contemporary web development and archival engineering practices.

Technologies and frameworks used across projects include:

• TypeScript

• Python

• Next.js

• React

• Firebase

• Omeka Classic

• REST APIs

• OCR workflows

• AI-assisted metadata pipelines

• archival data normalization

• multilingual metadata systems

• CSV transformation pipelines

• digital preservation workflows

I work across the full lifecycle of digital humanities infrastructure, including:

• conceptual design,

• metadata architecture,

• interface design,

• workflow engineering,

• archival QA,

• deployment,

• and collaborative editorial management.

Selected Platforms & Projects

Selected development and infrastructure projects include:

• Archivo Venezuela

• Archivo Studio

• FieldScholar

• Grounded

• MARACAS Pro

• AVOCADO

• Canvas QTI Quiz Generator

• CocoKids

• BiblioDriveSuite

Several projects remain in active development as part of an evolving digital humanities ecosystem focused on archival preservation, pedagogy, multilingual accessibility, and AI-assisted research workflows.