AMATL: Galería Colaborativa para la conservación y difusión de fotografías digitales de Teotitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca

Abstract

Photography is a document that reflects a visual testimony of political, scientific, social and cultural events of humanity, plays an important role in the conservation, transmission and visualization of such events. This work presents the design and implementation of a gallery to generate photographic collection of Teotitlán de Flores Magón through the collaboration of the population. The objective of this application is to remember and show the past to the new generations through a collective memory based on photography. The development of the software was done using the PHP language, the MySQL database manager and the view-controller model that allows a better organization of the application code, which facilitates the maintenance and updating of the application by the developers. The evolutionary process methodology was used in this project, all its stages were carried out to obtain a better software. The evaluation of usability with several users showed beneficial results with respect to satisfaction, efficiency and effectiveness metrics.