Extracting and Migrating Legacy Metadata for Bexar Archives Online

Bexar Archives Online is an online repository of digitized colonial records, and their translations, documenting Spanish and Mexican Texas between 1717 and 1836. The Bexar Archives, which contain roughly 300,000 pages, have been managed and preserved by the University of Texas for over a century. In preparation for the implementation of a new content hosting system, I developed a Proof of Concept and project workflow to extract, generate, and structure metadata for the digitized originals and translations using legacy reference materials. I also created and compiled comprehensive documentation on the history of the project and the collection, outstanding issues and potential solutions, and recommendations for broader policies and procedures regarding translation practices.