Echo 2: Exploring and Collecting the History of Science, Technology, and Industry in a Digital Era

Echo 2: Exploring and Collecting the History of Science, Technology, and Industry in a Digital Era

Proposal for a second part of the Echo project- designed to enhance outreach and training, developing tools and new approaches to teaching history online.

Echo 2 worked to build on the efforts of Echo 1. Beginning in July 2005, week-long, intensive workshops for fifteen participants who plan to create online projects in the history of science, technology, and industry.

January 16, 2004

Echo 2: Exploring and Collecting the History of Science, Technology, and Industry in a Digital Era

Echo 2 worked to build on the efforts of Echo 1. Beginning in July 2005, week-long, intensive workshops for fifteen participants who plan to create online projects in the history of science, technology, and industry.

07/01/2004

08/01/2007

Roy Rosenzweig

Dan Cohen

Tom Scheinfeldt

Connie Moon Sehat

Josh Greenberg

Sean Takats

Joan Fragaszy

Marty Andolino

Jennifer Reeder

1. A critical, on-going assessment of the practice of documenting the history of science and technology online, which will involve five leading practitioners from the worlds of the history of science and technology and digital history.
2. The Portal, an online 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 websites and ten major online 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 online.
5. Aggressive outreach to hundreds of other possible practitioners through personal contact, workshops, consultancies, which will result in fifty new practitioners who pursue the collecting and disseminating of the history of science and technology online.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

American Historical Association, National History Center, National Museum of American History, the Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian Archives, National Park Service, New -York Historical Society, Chicago Historical Society, National Institutes of Health,