Project 2: CEISMIC/ Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive
The next projects I found in my digital Easter egg hunt were on a website called Digital Humanities Awards: Recognizing Excellence in Digital Humanities. Here are the 2012 results in the category called Best DH Project for Public Audiences.
The first place winner in this category is CEISMIC: Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive. This project is led by the Digital Humanities team at the University of Canterbury College of Arts. In a sentiment very closely related to what Bogost proposed, the CEISMIC team emphasizes that “...we pride ourselves on being open, collaborative, practical and receptive to 'real world' ideas.”
The section for every day people to share their stories and connect with others is called Quakestories. This section of the site is “... a place to share your stories of the quakes, how they affected you - wherever you live, the aftermath and the ongoing story of the rebuilding. It will become a record for future generations, one that will continue to grow long after the quakes stop being news.”
Although this project is similar to The Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters, the CEISMIC project is different because the DH scholars who organize it seem a lot more involved. There is a very clear presence of the scholars interacting with and helping to create content on the site, where the previous project seemed to encourage collaboration without any clear indication where the scholars were except for behind-the-scenes archiving stuff. This project is far more collaborative than the previous, but it also seems that this project may have quite a bit more funding due to it being partnered with government agencies. The previous project was more partnered with NGO's and news corporations. Despite the differences from the previous project, this one also seems to be a very good example of a place where DH scholars and every day storytellers are not only meeting and collaborating but where those ideas are at the forefront and highly encouraged. This site seems very dedicated to the public participation in the research process. This is a site as much about scholarly ideals (archiving, preservation) as it is fostering community.
The first runner up in the category was Biblioteca Virtual: Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, and the second runner up was Dickens Journal Online. The former is in Spanish, I can't figure out how the latter is for public audiences, and when I looked at the rest of the submissions in the category it was clear DJO was only recognized because every other entry was even further from the public.
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The first place winner in this category is CEISMIC: Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive. This project is led by the Digital Humanities team at the University of Canterbury College of Arts. In a sentiment very closely related to what Bogost proposed, the CEISMIC team emphasizes that “...we pride ourselves on being open, collaborative, practical and receptive to 'real world' ideas.”
The section for every day people to share their stories and connect with others is called Quakestories. This section of the site is “... a place to share your stories of the quakes, how they affected you - wherever you live, the aftermath and the ongoing story of the rebuilding. It will become a record for future generations, one that will continue to grow long after the quakes stop being news.”
Although this project is similar to The Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters, the CEISMIC project is different because the DH scholars who organize it seem a lot more involved. There is a very clear presence of the scholars interacting with and helping to create content on the site, where the previous project seemed to encourage collaboration without any clear indication where the scholars were except for behind-the-scenes archiving stuff. This project is far more collaborative than the previous, but it also seems that this project may have quite a bit more funding due to it being partnered with government agencies. The previous project was more partnered with NGO's and news corporations. Despite the differences from the previous project, this one also seems to be a very good example of a place where DH scholars and every day storytellers are not only meeting and collaborating but where those ideas are at the forefront and highly encouraged. This site seems very dedicated to the public participation in the research process. This is a site as much about scholarly ideals (archiving, preservation) as it is fostering community.
The first runner up in the category was Biblioteca Virtual: Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, and the second runner up was Dickens Journal Online. The former is in Spanish, I can't figure out how the latter is for public audiences, and when I looked at the rest of the submissions in the category it was clear DJO was only recognized because every other entry was even further from the public.
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