A selection of Standards, Projects, and Humanities Computing
Centres
The
more that historical or other projects utilise international
standard data sets such as Dublin Core, ECAI, DTD, or TEI the
more valuable that they become for a broader research community.
Standards allow data to be interoperable so it can be utilised
in other projects, allows data to be located easily, and adds
value to data through giving it rigorous context and time based
specificity. Here are some important ones.
Milkbar.com.au
was not designed as a traditional archiving project (as it does
not use pre-existing archival documents) so many of the specialised
standards (apart from Dublin Core) were not that useful. I invite
other researchers involved in more traditional archiving projects
to explore the numerous electronic
publishing initiatives within the humanities. For
more related humanities links, see the links
section of milkbar.com.au
Dublin Core
http://www.dublincore.org
Text
Encoding Initiative
http://www.tei-c.org/
WARP
(Web Academic Resource Publisher) Australian Science and Technology
Centre
<snip>The Web Academic Resource Publisher is a database
tool developed by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage
Centre, to enable the scholarly web publication of reference
texts. Promoting more than just online reproduction of texts,
the WARP facilitates the creation of a knowledge space which
becomes a research tool from which new connections, insights
and ideas can be discovered and explored<snip/>
http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/warp/
e*text
centre
This centre at the University of Virginia Library, has an useful
list of publishing standards. This centre is also a large e*book
publisher.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standard.html
Projects
The
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative is a 'time and place'
based collaborative project led by the University of California
at Berkeley (and to a lesser extent by the school of Archaeology
at the university of Sydney). ECAI is a GIS (Graphical Information
Systems) focussed project whose aim is to build a global atlas
that will link projects from around the world through time/place
interfaces. At the core of ECAI's numerous innovations is the
ECAI Metadata Clearinghouse with data interoperability. The
Metadata Clearing house will allow data-sets to be re-purposed
for other web-based projects on a global scale.
www.ecai.org
The
Time-map project is an initiative from Sydney Uni's Archaeology
Computing Lab and is an attempt to map cultural data through
a time-based GIS interface. One of the time-map projects is
the attempt to map the historical growth of Sydney through digitising
all the known historical maps of the period and layering them
with historical images.
http://www.timemap.net/
The
Valley of the Shadow
Possible
one of the most famous history sites on the web, the Valley
of the Shadow project is an innovation of Ed Ayres and Will
Thomas of the University of Virginia. This project is a 'thick
description' history of a community in the Shenandoah Valley
during the American Civil War and contains thousands of archival
images, text and other documents related to every day life in
a community split by the Mason-Dixie line during the Civil War.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
Also,
wrth seeing is the Eastern Theatre of the Civil War GIS map
demonstration:
The
Historical Events Mark-up Language
The
Historical Event Mark-up and Linking project explores XML-related
technologies to develop a set of text mark-up and transformation
tools that are useful to Historians world-wide. These tools
will allow time lines and maps of known events so we can understand
past events from new perspectives.
http://www.heml.org/
The
South Seas Project
This
test site (not yet launched yet) is a project from Paul Turnbull
and Chris Blackwall of ANU. It contains the Journals of James
Cook, Banks on Cook's first pacific voyage 1768-1771. This project
plans to establish a set of publishing standards that are useful
for Historians.
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~cookproj/
American
PBS
<American
PBS proves that large public-broadcasting corporations can actually
build sites that engage with the past in a sophisticated way.
Check out Napoleon and Victoria.
http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/
http://www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/
Rowville-Lysterfield
History Project
This
project utilises a self-publishing, oral history model to assist
an outer Melbourne local community to engage with their past.
This project was built by Toysatellite
of Melbourne.
http://www.rlcnews.org.au/
Centres
IATH
(Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities)
This Centre stands out as a beacon for humanities type people
everywhere. They have developed numerous tools that may be of
interest to humanities researchers.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/
Tools
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/researchTools.html
The
Centre for History and New Media, George Mason University, Washington
DC
George
Mason has one of the more progressive Humanities Computing centres,
well worth looking at their oral history initiatives and World
Trade Centre terrorist attack archive.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/
Matrix:
The Centre for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Science on-line
This
centre at Michigan State houses h-net, possibly the largest
humanities and social science discussion network on-line, as
well as a number of on-line history projects.
http://www.matrix.msu.edu/
Authored
by Craig BellamyŠ 1999, 2000, 2001
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