This presentation shares the experience of Cartonera Digital do Cariri, a university extension project at the Federal University of Cariri (UFCA), Brazil, that combines cartonera publishing, cultural memory, sustainability, accessibility, open access, and collaborative knowledge production. Inspired by the Latin American cartonera movement and the cultural traditions of the Cariri region, the project brings students, community participants, and external collaborators together to create physical and digital cultural resources using reused materials, digital publishing, podcasts, QR Codes, audio, and Brazilian Sign Language (Libras).
The presentation focuses particularly on the development of an Interactive Digital Library and its potential to evolve from a collection of community-generated publications into an interconnected cultural knowledge environment. It introduces a gradual Linked Data roadmap involving metadata development, identification of people, works, places, cultural traditions, institutions, and digital manifestations, followed by the use of shared vocabularies, persistent identifiers, machine-readable data, and connections to broader GLAM knowledge ecosystems.
Because the project is still under development, the presentation discusses partial results, challenges, and lessons learned rather than presenting a completed Linked Data implementation. The session highlights how small community-based projects can begin building the foundations for interoperable cultural heritage data while preserving local context, authorship, accessibility, and community participation. Full article : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UHH1g-DkVqXNF2QH4YSEm4SJWaDVZEJkY4CRkEsrEwo/edit?usp=sharing
