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Fidel Castro Building Inauguration Speeches, 1960-1994

Identification Information

Citation
Title
Fidel Castro Building Inauguration Speeches, 1960-1994
Creation Date
2019-04-04
Publication Date
2019-04-04
Revision Date
2019-04-04
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
mapDigital
Other Citation Details
CSV file created from scraped dataset on 14 November, 2018
Abstract
The map was based on the Castro Speech Database, which is hosted in the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC), LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. The map includes a subset of 78 buildings related to the speeches given by Fidel Castro. The buildings were identified by their names in the speeches and georeferenced. Out of the 52 that were located, only 34 of them have an exact location; the other 18 are an approximation based on additional research and given the location of a city. Out of the 26 unidentified locations, 22 of them were given the location of the city or province, and 4 of them were given a location on the sea south of Cuba to represent the entire dataset. The speeches date February 1960-December 1994.
Purpose
Mapping of buildings inaugurated by Fidel Castro based on the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) Castro Speech Database, 1960-1994.
Bounding Box
West
-82.748874
East
-75.200391
North
23.177252
South
19.999245
ISO Topic Category
farming
economy
health
society
transportation
Place Keyword
Cuba
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Temporal Keyword
20th century, 1960-1994, Cuban Revolution
Theme Keyword
Speeches, addresses, etc., Cuban.
Cuba--Politics and government--1959-1990.
Communism--Cuba.
Cuba--History--20th century.
Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016.
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
Resource Constraints
Use Limitation
None. Users are advised to read the data set’s metadata thoroughly to understand appropriate use and data limitations.
Maintenance and Update Frequency
asNeeded
Language
eng
Credit
Roig Blay, Karla M. (Data Structuring, Georeferencing, Visualization, Metadata); Hernandez, Luke (Data Compilation Georeferencing); Palacios, Albert A. (Metadata); Shensky, Michael (Data Ingest)
Point of Contact
Contact
Karla M. Roig Blay
Position Name
Student
Email
karlamroig@gmail.com
Point of Contact
Contact
LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship
Position Name
Research Unit
Email
llilasbensondigitalscholarship@gmail.com

Spatial Reference Information

Reference System Identifier
Code
4326
Code Space
EPSG
Version
6.14(3.0.1)

Data Quality Information

Lineage
Statement
The original printed documents come from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a US government agency that gathered and translated news and information from foreign media. These were digitized by the U.S. Information Agency’s Department of Research of the Radio Martí Program from 1959 through the 1980s. The online records are now found in the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) Castro Speech Database, which gives access to the English translations of 2,396 speeches and interviews given by Fidel Castro. Luke Hernandez extracted the metadata from the LANIC website into a CSV file and began georeferencing the speeches in June 2018. Karla M. Roig Blay finalized the scraping of the data, created a subset of inauguration speeches, georeferenced and visualized them, and then provided the metadata for the dataset in April 2019. This project has been developed from the speech-level description provided with these digitized files. The selection made for the purposes of the exhibition are by no means exhaustive and do not include all inauguration speeches given by Castro. This data comes from the Benson Latin American Collection and is part of the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) Castro Speech Database.

Distribution Information

Format Name
Shapefile
Format Version

Spatial Representation Information

Vector
Topology Level
geometryOnly
Vector Object Type
point
Vector Object Count
78

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
utblac__lanic__castrodb__point__1__inaugurations_master
Metadata Date Stamp
2021-09-17
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf8
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