| HD-50420-08 | Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | AASLH | Online Encyclopedia Best Practices and Standards | 9/1/2008 - 3/31/2012 | $35,000.00 | Matthew | S. | Gibson | | | | AASLH | Nashville | TN | 37212-4342 | USA | 2008 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants | Digital Humanities | 35000 | 0 | 35000 | 0 | The development of best practices for the production of geographically-based online humanities encyclopedias.
Best practices and Standards for Online Encyclopedias will facilitate long-term planning among geographically based digital encyclopedias and document best practices in content/technical standards for the development of shared innovations in digital encyclopedia projects across the U.S. The project focuses on a summit meeting on technology and content practice in digital encyclopedias, which will produce a guide of best practices for content and technical standards and a roadmap to technological innovation. Project goals are to gather data about the digital encyclopedia community and its needs; to collaboratively publish a white paper on standards and technology; to utilize AASLH's Internet Digital Encyclopedia Alliance (IDEA) committee to maintain and support those standards; and to promote humanities-based, online reference works as authoritative sources for public research. |