Workshop: Building Blocks - Part One

Association Research Libraries, Washington DC

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Abstract

This proposal funds a set of interactions, in particular a workshop next month, between humanists and computer researchers to expand on the possible uses of new technology in humanities research and teaching. The proposal comes from the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. It supplements Rockefeller Foundation funding. The major purpose of the workshop and the related activities is to prepare a research agenda for the area of computational humanities and define problems and needs for new technology, both to help the humanists in their scholarship and educational activities, and to help explore the new challenges and opportunities for information technology presented by these areas.