2011 Omeka team photo with Dolly Parton souvenir blanket (l-r): Sharon Leon, John Flatness, Sheila Brennan, Patrick Murray-John, Roberto Sanchez, Kim Nguyen, and Tom Scheinfeldt
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has come to the conclusion that effective digital tools for scholars are forged mostly in practice rather than theory. There is no reason that a weeklong institute can't both teach and produce something useful to the community—an actual digital humanities tool—while also laying the foundation and skills for future endeavors by the participants. Indeed, the act of doing, of building the tool, should be the best way for participants…
A picture of the original Omeka staff: (Front, L to R) Sheila Brennan, Sharon Leon, Jim Safley; (Back, L to R) Dave Lester, Ken Albers, Jeremy Boggs, Tom Scheinfeldt, Kris Kelly.
Original Zotero team photo with Roy's new car and vanity license plate: (kneeling) Kari Kraus, Roy Rosezweig; (standing) Sean Takats, Trevor Owens, Josh Greenberg, and Dan Cohen.
Grant proposes to continue the work started at by Theodore Crackel and his team at East Stroudsburg State University in 1994. The purpose and goal is to make available some 50,000 War Department documents that have been recovered through a multi-year search of hundreds of repositories and to make this archive accessible online and free.
Continues work on the Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 project. Grant proposal requests 3 additional years of funding to further the migration of files and data to the CHNM campus and completion of the electronic architecture.
Grant proposal for additional funds in support of the Papers of the War Department, 1874-1800 project. Indicates that in 2007, the project shifted emphasis toward the immediate availability of content online (reducing the amount of available finding data). Grant application requests additional funds to utilize existing infrastructure and complete the more extensive data entry processes begun prior to the shift.