This project, led by Juan Cobo Betancourt (UCSB, History) and Santiago Munoz-Arbelaez (U-Texas, Austin) aims to develop an integrated digitization toolkit to allow under-resourced institutions, collectives, and communities to digitize their archival collections at low cost. Building on a decade of community-based digitization work in the Global South, the research team will design and release a prototype of a new generation of tools built on sustainable, up-to-date technologies. They will create an alpha prototype version, test and evaluate the toolkit at the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library (CA), and hold listening sessions to identify a series of potential partners for the project's next stages. The National Endowment for the Humanities award is for the amount of $75,000 for the period 2/1/2025 through 1/31/2027. This research team participated in the AGI-OR Faculty Collaborative Grant Development program as they prepared and submitted the NEH grant proposal.