Armida Escalante is a digital archivist with an academic background in computer science, which she studied at the National Polytechnic Institute, as well as in strategic administration, library science and information studies at the UNAM. At the latter university, she teaches in the Bachelor’s in Archive Administration and Documentation Management at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. She also gives classes in the Master’s in the Conservation of Documentary Archives at the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography (ENCRyM). She participates in the National Library’s Digital Preservation Group and in the Digital Preservation Practices Laboratory at the ENCRyM. She has experience in software development, data analysis, technological solutions for business, the organization and integration of archives in digital repositories and research into the management, curation and preservation of archival documents in digital formats.

Joel Blanco has a Bachelor’s in Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico and a Master’s and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh, respectively. He teaches in the Master’s in the Conservation of Documentary Archives at the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography, where he also directs the Digital Preservation Practices Laboratory. He participates in the project “Digital Preservation of Content Published on Web Portals and Social Networks: From the Collection to the Dissemination of Digital Collections on COVID-19 in Mexico” at the UNAM Institute of Library and Information Sciences. His fields of interest include the analysis of archival theory in digital contexts, web archives and social media archives.

Elva Peniche has a Bachelor’s in History and a Master’s in Art History from the UNAM. Her lines of research are centered on artistic practices and photography in Mexico, as well as the relationship between art and the archive through the curation of the archive and research into artistic documentation processes. She has cocurated archival exhibitions such as Expanding the Spaces of Art: Helen Escobedo at the UNAM 1961 – 1979, (University Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017) and Antonio Reynoso: Archive of a Cinematographer (Centro de la Imagen, 2016). Since August 2015, she has worked at the University Museum of Contemporary Art’s Arkheia Documentation Center, which is specialized in Mexican contemporary art. In the Master’s in the Conservation of Documentary Archives, she is interested in lines of research connected to the critical use of documentary archives, as well as the development of competencies connected to their investigation, administration and exhibition in museum spaces.