Welcome to the adhoc (allied digital humanities organizations committee)
discussion list. The allied organizations taking part in this discussion,
through designated representatives, are:
The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing
The Association for Computers and the Humanities
The National Initiative for Networked Cultural Heritage
The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium
There are other organizations of similar size and purpose who could be
included in a later expansion of this conversation, but for now, we start
with these four.
The purpose of this list (and this committee) is to discuss ways in which
four small digital humanities organizations might cooperate to achieve
efficiency and economies. Possible areas of discussion will include:
--the legal forms these organizations take, and whether those could be
shared (e.g., non-profit corporations, foundations etc.)
--the business services these organizations require, and whether those
could be shared (e.g., fund-raising, accounting, membership services, etc.)
--the publications these organizations produce, and whether those could be
combined (e.g., journals, newsletters, etc.)
--the events these organizations sponsor, and whether those could be
combined (e.g, conferences, training sessions, etc.)
Other issues beyond these may certainly arise, but these are predictable
topics with which to begin.
Our time-line is a little over eight months: by May 1st, we should have
produced concrete recommendations to present to the executive boards
of each of the four organizations. In formulating and presenting those
recommendations, we should specifically address the organizational issues
(bylaws, funds, organizational identity and mission, etc.) that they will
raise for each of the participating organizations.
The members of this list are:
David Green (NINCH)
Chuck Henry (NINCH)
Harold Short (TEI)
Julia Flanders (TEI)
Espen Ore (ALLC)
Elisabeth Burr (ALLC)
Geoff Rockwell (ACH)
John Unsworth (ACH)
Of course, many of us are involved in more than one of the four
organizations, so the assignment of roles is somewhat arbitrary, but it
will be important for each of us to pay particular attention to the issues
and perspectives of the organization we are identified with in the list
above.
The proceedings of the discussion will be archived on the web at:
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/adhoc/
and the archive is not currently password-protected, though it could be, if
committee members feel that is important. It is "disallowed" from indexing
by a robots.txt file, so it should not show up in search engines.
The list itself can be addressed at adhoc@lists.village.virginia.edu, and
the addresses from which posting will be accepted are:
jmu2m@virginia.edu
chhenry@rice.edu
Harold.Short@kcl.ac.uk
Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de
david@ninch.org
Julia_Flanders@brown.edu
espen.ore@nb.no
grockwel@mcmaster.ca
If you foresee the need to post from a variant or completely different
address, please let me know, so I can add that address (or variant) to the
permitted list.
I'd like to pass the talking stick to Geoff Rockwell now, because I think
Geoff has some ideas about how we should proceed. I'd also like to invite
Chuck Henry to say a few words about a similar discussion which may be
starting up in the museum community soon.
John Unsworth
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