As digital collecting by museums, libraries, and archives has increased over recent years, the types and complexity of digital objects has also multiplied. The lessons learned and solutions created by the Digitization and Cataloging team at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in acquiring, processing, cataloging and preserving these new types of digital collections can assist others in identifying processes and workflows to preserve and make accessible the ever-expanding amount of digital collections that will grow into tomorrow’s digital cultural heritage.
The main objective of this research is to think about the cultural heritage of “Ningunismo” and its definitions through the preservation and cataloging of materials from different media, contained in a horizontal and communal archive with free online access. The focus is mainly on the hermeneutic conflict, originated after the death of the founders and how the mass media distorted its existence. The archive is composed of 500 items, 170 agents, and 30 places. The creation of a tree of elements helped to relate the different formats. From newspaper notes, to abandoned web pages, to papers at sociology conferences, any publication about or mentioning "Ningunismo" was included. Virtual material pertaining to disused web pages turned out to be the most numerous.