Digital Cahuleu (or, the Digital Maya Universe) is a research and dissemination website hosted by the Wired Humanities Project (WHP) at the University of Oregon <http://www.uoregon.edu/>. WHP is directed by Dr. Judith Musick. Associate Director, Dr. Stephanie Wood, managed the organization and construction of this website.

Several key donations have helped make this site possible.

• In 2005, Geraldine D. Andrews, widow of the late George F. Andrews (1918-2000), architecture professor at the University of Oregon, donated to the WHP a number of photographs and drawings, a rubbing by Joan Patten, and loaned us access to her own diary recording her many visits to Maya archaeological sites, from the 1950s through the 1990s. The bulk of the Andrews collection resides at the University of Texas.
  
  
• Also in 2005, Hermann W. Ehlers and the Van Kirk family of Film Team Safari made their CD of photographs of the Naj Tunich cave drawings accessible so that we might index them in the Virtual Mesoamerican Archive. We provide small reproductions of these images in Digital Cahuleu. The CD is offered for sale at the Film Team Safari Mundo Maya website <http://www.filmteamsafari.com/najtunich.asp>. Please do not reproduce these images on our website without first obtaining permission from Film Team Safari.
  
  
• In 2006, Nancy Hughes, who with the Rotary Club organizes the Duffy Hughes Memorial Stove Team, which helps install stoves in the Maya homes in Guatemala, donated a collection of photographs she shot in the field. See the Stove Team website for further information: <http://www.stoveteam.com/>.
  
  
• Also in 2006, Katarina Digman, a retired professor of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, now living in Oregon, made a donation of digitized Super-8 films shot in archaeological sites (with special permission from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia), more than 800 slides, and a few dozen handwoven and embroidered textiles from Mesoamerica.

We are digitizing these donated materials and preparing them for use in teaching and research, all with the intention of advancing Mesoamerican Studies. Several UO students are making significant contributions. Daniel Woolard is the website designer and is helping populate the site. Matthew Vu is preparing the image map of the Patten rubbing in the Andrews collection. Sviatlana Babkova is digitizing slides in the Digman collection. Former student Shannon Mudge helped in the early stages of this site.

In due time, all materials in Digital Cahuleu will be indexed in the Virtual Mesoamerican Archive, another initiative of the Wired Humanities Project.