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NOTABLE "TRANSFORMING DISCIPLINES" WEB SITES
An initial and unavoidably partial list of items suggested by conference participants
A. SITES ASSOCIATED WITH SPEAKERS' PRESENTATIONS
Richard Baraniuk, Connexions: http://cnx.rice.edu
Gregory Crane, Perseus Digital Library, "engineering interactions through time, space, and language:" http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
Douglas Greenberg, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation: http://www.vhf.org
Mark Lawrence Kornbluh, MATRIX: http://matrix.msu.edu
Janet Murray: http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~murray
Stephen Murray, The Media Center for Art History, Archæology and Historic Preservation, Columbia University: http://www.mcah.columbia.edu
Bernard Smith, Digital Heritage and Cultural Content, European Commission: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/home.html
Will Thomas, Valley of the Shadow: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/
John Unsworth, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities: http://www.iath.virginia.edu
B. GENERAL
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov The NSF Digital Libraries Initiative web site that includes the DLI2 project in collaboration with NEH and other agencies. (Steve Griffin)
http://nsdl.org/ National Science Digital Library This developing site is not quite ready for prime time but it shows several things worth considering: the umbrella organization of several OAI compliant digital collections, use of uPortal technology and its attention to metadata and collection development. It's "science" of course, and funded by NSF, but maybe it could scale for us. (David Block)
http://scout.wisc.edu/research/SPT/download.html Scout Portal Toolkit This site fosters interoperability, common standards and good use of metadata. The software at this URL must be downloaded to a server with PHP 4.0.6 and MySQL 3.23 or later, which means some help from systems personnel in most cases, although the version I've been fiddling with at Cornell (running on UNIX) is pretty straightforward. (David Block)
http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/ARCHway/entrance.htm The ARCHway Project: Architecture for Research in Computing for Humanities through Research, Teaching, and Learning. This is an NSF ITR project to develop a technological infrastructure, an Edition Production Technology (EPT), for collaborative work at all levels between computer science and humanities disciplines. Our goal is to identify and solve problems of mutual importance in building image-based electronic editions of significant cultural materials. (Kevin Kiernan)
DISCIPLINES
HISTORY
http://www.chnm.gmu.edu/revolution Exploring the French Revolution This is a multi-media, pedagogical presentation from George Mason University's Center for New Media and History that can be used in a variety of ways to teach the Revolution at multiple levels. (Gregory Brown)
http://www.gutenberg-e.org Gutenberg-e This experiment in scholarly electronic publishing breaks no new ground technologically but has already in its first year gotten more peer-reviewed, new e-books online, using a (so far at least) sustainable production and cost-recovery model, than anything else. http://www.historyebook.org should, if it meets its plan, surpass Gutenberg-e in terms of new content and provides a more useful citation structure but at last check, had yet to publish a new book. (Gregory Brown).
http://gallica.bnf.fr Bibliotheque Nationale This is a collection of digital resources from the French National Library. Though many of the texts are either low-quality PDFs made from microfilm or third-party digitizations that are unstructured and so hard to search and retrieve, I have still found it tremendously useful in getting access to primary sources that I would otherwise have to travel thousands of miles to consult. What is distinct about this site is that it is in theory the kernel of a vast digital library much of which could be, again in theory, publicly accessible and free of copyright restriction (if the BNF wanted to, that is.) (Gregory Brown).
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
http://www.digitalatheneum.org The Digital Atheneum: New techniques for restoring, accessing, and editing humanities collections" is an NSF DLI2 project that brought together computer scientists and manuscript specialists to work together on badly damaged manuscripts from the British Library. Graduate degrees in both disciplines came out of the project (a masters thesis in English just won the 2002 Masters Thesis Award for the Humanities and Arts from the Council of Southern Graduate Schools). (Kevin Kiernan)
http://beowulf.engl.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm The Electronic Beowulf sponsored by the British Library, NEH, Mellon, and others, another collaboration between humanities and computer science, won an award for innovation in information technology before its publication and recently won the Beatrice White Prize from the U.K.'s English Association. (Kevin Kiernan)
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/ The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - A Hypermedia Archive. This work-in-progress not only provides a sophisticated approach to web site construction, but it also asks searching bibliographical questions about what we mean by "edition" and even "text." It is as theoretically interesting as it is practically useful. For an already large site, it seems to be evolving in a very lucid way.
PERFORMING ARTS
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/: ECHO: A Music-Centered Journal This is a journal established by graduate students (fully supported by faculty) at UCLA in 1999, and is a full expression of the "New Musicology," in all its range of interests the most imaginative example I know of the uses to which technology can be put in peer-reviewed, archived periodicals in the performing arts (Mary Davidson).
VISUAL ARTS
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/mellon/report.html "Digital Imagery for Works of Art: Report of the Co-Chairs." With Charles Rhyne and Ron Spronk. Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 19-20, 2001. This is the final report of the Mellon/NSF workshop that brought together computer and imaging scientists who have been active in digital imagery research with a particular group of end users, namely research scholars in the visual arts, including art and architecture historians, art curators, conservators, and scholars and practitioners in closely related disciplines. (Donald Waters, Kevin Kiernan)
http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/ Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is the world's first scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe.
http://home.pacbell.net/ja_mount/g3.html Genetic Art: based on the International Genetic Art II site that shows the impact of genetic programming on art. (Slavko Milekic)
http://imsc.usc.edu/tech/2002/HapticMuseum0801.pdf Haptic Museum demonstration project of the Integrated Design Systems Center, university of Southern California that adds tactile experience to art exploration. (Slavko Milekic)
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