ABQjournal: Internet Opens Door to N.M.’s Past By Sue Major Holmes, The Associated Press

[T]he state on Thursday unveiled a Web site — www.newmexicohistory.org — to bring New Mexico’s people, places, events and stories out of the archives and into the Internet world. …

The site is designed so people can access information through portals marked story, time, place and people. …

The site currently spans from about A.D. 1100 to 2000, but Rael-Galvez wants it redesigned to start at what pueblo elders call “time immemorial” to include origin stories— whether those be stories elders have told through the generations or Oñate leading settlers up the Camino Real.

The story section “will explore what stories tell us about the past,” everything from diary entries to oral histories, the state historian said. It will contain a revolving library in which visitors can click on a word and hear it in languages ranging from Tewa to Hebrew to Spanish, illustrating New Mexico’s diversity and multilingual society.

The people section is largely biography but includes different perspectives, such as those of children or women or how people are identified by the outside community and how they see their own place in the community, Rael-Galvez said.

The theme of place centers on the idea that “wisdom sits in places,” he said.

That section has images and maps of places and a virtual exhibit of four northern New Mexico grants that was put together by media design students at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas. The section will eventually explore roads such as the famed Camino Rael or Route 66.