Coleccion Aruba receives international attention.

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For this occasion, they focused on Tuvalu, an island nation of seven islands in the Pacific Ocean that is slowly disappearing. Simultaneously, Ms. Rogin highlighted the digital platform Coleccion Aruba, emphasizing the importance of preserving archives, documents, and recordings that are cultural heritage and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. www.coleccion.aw is the largest digital archive in Papiamento and provides free access to digital archives of documents, photos, videos, and recordings from Aruba.

For the part about Tuvalu, the reporter interviewed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Simon Kofe, and a representative of the United Nations of Tuvalu, Mr. Tapugao Falefou, who explained the challenges this small country faces due to climate change. According to Ms. Rogin, climate change damages infrastructure. It can endanger archives, documents, and other artifacts, destroying them and causing a significant part of a country's general and cultural history to be lost.

In an interview with Ms. Kate Knibbs, who wrote an article about the collaboration between Coleccion Aruba and the Internet Archive, the digital platform that 'hosts' Coleccion Aruba, Ms. Knibbs emphasized the importance of digitizing documents.

For the segment on Coleccion Aruba, the PBS News reporter interviewed Mr. Peter Scholing, a researcher at the National Library of Aruba and initiator of Coleccion Aruba, as well as historian and author Dr. Adi Martis. 

Mr. Scholing explained why it is crucial to preserve cultural heritage digitally, especially now that temperatures are rising due to climate change. For his research, Dr. Martis provided information on the efficiency of Coleccion Aruba, for example, when he was investigating slavery in Aruba.

You can watch the news segment here.