| HT-50021-09 | Digital Humanities: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | George Mason University | One Week, One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barn Raising | 7/1/2009 - 6/30/2011 | $249,221.00 | Tom | | Scheinfeldt | | | | George Mason University | Fairfax | VA | 22030-4444 | USA | 2009 | History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities | 249221 | 0 | 249221 | 0 | A one week institute for twelve participants on the principles of humanities-centered tool design, development, and implementation, followed by a year of development support.
For one week in June 2010, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will bring together a group of twelve digital humanists of diverse disciplinary backgrounds and practical experience to build a useful and useable software tool for digital humanities research. A short course of training in principles of open source software development will be followed by an intense five days of brainstorming and development. Following the workshop will be a year of continued development, testing and evaluation. The group members will be comprised of designers and programmers as well as project managers and outreach specialists. The group will conceive a tool, outline a roadmap, develop and disseminate a prototype, lay the ground work for building an open source community, and make first steps toward securing sustainable funding for the project. |