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Spring Spotlight 1: The Deconstruction/Reconstruction of the Community and Institution Collaborative Model

From the HASTAC {Humanities, Art, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory} website:

“These DH projects define how existing collecting methods have been tested, challenged and reconstructed to achieve their successful outcomes. Each project takes the basic idea of creating an online resource on knowledge that historically hasn’t been available to interested audiences.

The community collaborative projects are based on these general ideas.

• A model based on acquisition, preservation and distribution of an existing cultural history parallel to, but not included in the American narrative.
• An anecdotal history through interviews and a history based on material acquisitions in danger of being lost without this effort to acquire and preserve it.
• A history presented in visualizations that organize large amounts of data into a manageable visitor experience. Content that has a goal of informing a range of visitors, engaging a community eager for this history and encouraging future scholarship.

Spotlight organizer: Linda Garcia Merchant, Technical Director, Chicana Por Mi Raza Oral History Project
Email: linda@vocesprimeras.com”