ACH Project Planning

Current projects

• Migration of Humanist to ADHO server
• ACH web redesign
• Bamboo participation

Projects in planning

• Aggregation and archiving of conference abstracts and Humanist postings
• Digital humanities bibliography

Proposed projects

Proposed at ACH EC meeting, June 2008

• Publication projects
  • Newsletter – would need someone to compile
  • Downloadable flier to be posted on ACH website
  • Production of white papers to explore the state of the field
  • Edited issue along with MLA (similar to TEI issue)
  • Blackwells Companions (parallel to Digital Humanities and Digital Literature); MLA is also very receptive

• Outreach/Recruitment (general):
  
  • More outreach via ACH membership mailing list
  • Sponsor sessions, send representatives to related conferences; perhaps provide funding to support this? or take advantage of people who will already be attending
  • Regional (joint) one-day symposia (ACH could also sponsor/do outreach at existing events: for instance, TEI workshops, NINES-sponsored workshops, local digital humanities events?)
  • Individual ACH members as visiting speakers to Universities to reach out to potential members (potential grants to help support this?)
  • Post more ACH-related announcements on Humanist to reach a broader audience
    

• Outreach/Recruitment (student):
  • Special pre-day of DH conference for students/young scholars – not ghettoized (similar to Doctoral Consortium @ ACM). Young people give papers and audience gives constructive feedback (rehearsal).
  • Sponsor ACH sessions involving graduate students at other conferences

• Jobs-related projects
  • Drupal module for jobs database

• Build an endowment to earn interest

Other proposed projects

-- Main.JuliaFlanders - 28 Aug 2008