HASTAC - Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory
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Inserito il 20/03/2009
I wanted to bring to your attention a forum I'm facilitating for HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). Please permit me to quote from the website so I don't have to struggle to word this myself: HASTAC is "a consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, and engineers, of leading researchers and nonprofit research institutions" - a group of individuals and institutions "committed to new forms of collaboration across communities and disciplines fostered by creative uses of technology." Anyway, their intentions are good and the conversations across disciplines have been interesting. They're also friends with big funding bodies: HASTAC has received funding from Digital Promise, the National Science Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.
I was the HASTAC scholar who suggested a forum on the topic of the digitization of premodern texts and the development of tools for textual research - so now that we've opened the forum (just today!) I'm committed to getting new people to participate, especially people who are philologically minded. The forum is open to all, however (and my co-facilitator and I were asked to make it as accessible as possible for those outside of classics/medieval studies).
If you are interested in participating, the forum is currently open & as far as I know, it will not close at any point (though the conversation will probably wane in a couple weeks or so - it should be most interesting and dynamic in the next few days). There are really no guidelines - you can feel free to contribute any thoughts relevant to the topic & there's no need to introduce yourself first unless you want to do so.
Anyone can sign up to post comments on the HASTAC forums - the process is easy and to my knowledge they treat all personal information with respect & privacy. Registration is here:
https://www.hastac.org/user/register/
Here's a direct link to the forum, titled "Digital Textuality and Tools":
http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/03-09-09Digital-Textuality-and-Tools
