Fostering the Recent History of Science and Technology in New Media (Echo 1)

Fostering the Recent History of Science and Technology in New Media (Echo 1)

Initial ECHO Grant

Fostering the Recent History of Science and Technology in New Media (Echo 1)

Echo 1 engaged in cultivating on-line archival practices among well-defined audiences and enabling popular engagement in the recent history of science and technology through web-based interactivity. Proposal for the creation of Echo- with a three-part strategy: critical assessment, institutionalization and aggregation, and outreach and education.

10/01/2000

10/31/2004

Roy Rosenzweig

Roy Rosenzweig

Jim Sparrow

Dan Cohen

Michael O'Malley

John Cheng

Alison Landsberg

(1) a critical, on-going assessment of the practice of documenting the history of science and technology on line, which will involve five leading practitioners from the worlds of the history of science and technology and digital history

(2) the Portal, an on-line center for those interested in the history of science and technology, which will offer (among other things) 300 detailed annotations of history of science and technology Web sites and 10 major on-line dialogues with leading participants in the making of that history

(3) an active collecting effort of our own in our Memory Bank, which will produce at least 500 contributions

(4) a comprehensive guide to collecting history on line

(5) aggressive outreach to hundreds of other possible practitioners through personal contact, workshops, and consultancies, which will result in 50 new practitioners who pursue the collecting and disseminating of the history of science and technology on line

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Yahoo! Pick 2003