FYI

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Open letter to AHRC Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:07:39 +0100 From: Gabriel BODARD gabriel.bodard@KCL.AC.UK Reply-To: The Digital Classicist List DIGITALCLASSICIST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK To: DIGITALCLASSICIST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Dear colleagues,

A letter has been sent to the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, asking for clarification on the future of digital preservation and dissemination of good practice given the AHRC’s recent announcement [[1]] that funding for the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) will be terminated early next year. This information-seeking letter (copied at [[2]]) has been signed on behalf of the Digital Classicist, Antiquist, Digital Medievalist, and TEI communities.

Any comments on this letter, or on the AHRC's eventual response, may be discussed here and/or in the comments thread at [[3]].

[[1]] http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2007/information_for_applicants_to_AHRC_j...

[[2]] http://www.stoa.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/ahrc-letter.pdf

[[3]] http://www.stoa.org/?p=658

Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist)

Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Kay House 7, Arundel Street London WC2R 3DX

Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980

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