Wired Humanities Projects, University of Oregon

A new grant!

jamil — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:21:44 +0000

The Global Scholars Program of the University of Oregon’s Office of International Affairs has just notified us that they will provide seed money for the launching of WHP’s Digital Chinese Scrolls Collection. We will digitize and atomize two Chinese scrolls in the collections of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art for close study by History Professor Ina Asim and colleagues. We will also include the scroll that the Garron Hale of the Social Science Instructional Lab digitally enhanced (shown below, in sample images). The long range goal is to create collaborative teams between the UO and universities, archives, and museums in China, involving faculty and students in the transcription, translation, and analysis of these and additional scrolls abroad. We have an agreement with the Library of Congress to include some of their many scrolls, too, if we can find the additional resources that will be necessary for expanding the collection.

Welcome to the new WHP website!

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:43:54 +0000

The Wired Humanities Projects constitute a “consortium” of research projects that utilize and develop digital scholarship in the humanities. We think of ourselves as a part of a world wide “collaboratory” - what William Wulf (1989) defined as “a center without walls, in which [humanities] researchers can perform their research without regard to physical location, interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, [and] accessing information in digital libraries.”

Our projects create digital collections for advancing research and for pedagogical uses, as well as tools that help scholars and educators collaborate and connect regardless of their geographical locations.

Our logo represents this connection of separate projects and possibilities for the growth of some projects and ideas beyond any current understanding of what constitutes the whole.