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

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

Description

Initial ECHO Grant

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Title

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

Description

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.

Start Date

10/01/2000

End Date

10/31/2004

Proposal Co-Authors

Roy Rosenzweig

Director(s)

Roy Rosenzweig
Jim Sparrow
Dan Cohen

Affiliates

Michael O'Malley
John Cheng
Alison Landsberg

Deliverables

(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

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Funder

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Awards

Yahoo! Pick 2003

Files

Echo website 2001

Collection

Citation

“Fostering the Recent History of Science and Technology in New Media (Echo 1),” RRCHNM20, accessed December 12, 2024, https://20.rrchnm.org/items/show/166.

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This Item Staff Item: Dan Cohen
This Item Staff Item: Mike O'Malley