The National Archives (AGN) has computerized some 12 million images during the tenure of Professor Roberto Cassa, the director. These images cover historical events from 1607 until 1930. Cassa, an eminent historian, said that he believed that this mass digitization had taken the AGN into unknown territory, with many technical components, including new technical descriptions that required training dozens of archivists, a massive task that has taken nearly five years.
He pointed out that the process had been very costly, but said that although the DR is a poor country it was a necessary sacrifice for “reasons of State.” There are also administrative reasons, because the country needs to save its own memory and accomplishments, which the historian described as “vital.” Although he did not give a total cost figure, he mentioned that the seven scanners used for the digitalization process were acquired overseas at a cost of a million pesos each.
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