This is an interesting project Alex, thank you for doing it and promoting it!
What struck me is that the web today needs -like when it first appeared in 1993- some disciplinary index of resources and projects, could we still say catalogues?
Pioneer digital historian Lynn H. Nelson who created -and with full support by Tim Berners Lee- the World Wide Web Virtual Library History Central Catalogue (today still available as history of the web at vlib.iue.it) was right when he was looking in the ’90 for collaborators worldwide and would still be right that the web needs index of resources, Local Area Search Engines or portals/gateways presenting selected resources in a field. And mirroring the site, finding international volunteers, gathering websites on a common document was already an issue in the ’90. Technologies are changing, some basic needs towards information/documentation are remaining: for example at the European University Institute a portal selecting in OA digital primary sources for the history of Europe: EHPS - primary-sources.eui.eu is in a way presenting DH projects when dealing with the creation of digital primary sources.
So we are missing projects like Intute closed in 2011 (http://www.intute.ac.uk/) and we should have added a global Intute in DH for informing about the field’s developments, a global WWW VL of DH projects, a place where crowdsourcing information worldwide.
Search engines like Google aren’t bibliographies or selected lists of resources and aren’t informing disciplinary about projects. Google founds what you are looking for but is not structuring and presenting information in an intelligent way like archives and libraries do when they have the technology, the time and the staff to do so.
Having access to a selection of DH projects worldwide as an embryo of a database of DH projects is extremely useful indeed and like you said, needs a real lot of work by many volunteers!
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From: globaloutlookdh-l [mailto:globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of Alex Gil Sent: 21 June 2014 12:20 To: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community Subject: [globaloutlookDH-l] AroundDH in 80 Days is live
Hi all,
As promised, I released AroundDH before the summer solstice. Here is the link:
Share with your students and colleagues. This project will hopefully serve as a good introduction to the digital humanities around the world. Stay tuned everyday for a different project!
You can follow updates on Twitter as well with the hashtag #arounddh.
Onwards! A.
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