Goals

According to BAC website in the section entitled mission it says

BAC’s goal is to create and support interdisciplinary alliances and communities across borders.

More specifically the goal of BAC is described as

Borderlands Archives Cartography (BAC) is dedicated to locate, map, and facilitate the access of borderland periodicals.

BAC goal is to map, they want to put these archives on a map to show how many stories are told in the same general area, the U.S. and Mexico border. The project goal is for border natives and people surrounding the border it is intended to help them hear and share there stories that have yet top been heard.

To meet the goal BAC has collected data from hundreds of newspapers that were published in the borderlands between 1808 and 1930. All which they categorized and put on a interactive map to track and explore.

Borderlands Archives Cartography goals to DH goals:
The Borderlands Archives Cartography project is connected to Digital Humanities because it uses digital archiving and preservation. BAC uses a database designed to digitalize and preserve newspapers and other materials from the U.S and Mexico border. Similar to Digital Humanities which protects sources and makes them easy to access through digital platforms. Another goal from the BAC project which alines with a digital humanities is open access to anyone, BAC creating an easy accessible archive it follows DHM goal of making research available