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Working Group on Open Resources in the Humanities

Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open resources in humanities research and teaching.

A list of free/open source software tools for facilitating research and teaching in the humanities (including and linking to existing directories).
Maintaining a registry of collections of public domain and open access humanities resources on CKAN.
Guide to using structured text formats when publishing or making available textual databases or other resources.
Guide on best practices for using licenses and other legal tools.

Janneke Adema, Coventry University (UK)
Philippe Aigrain, Sopinspace (France)
Gabriel Bodard, King's College London (Centre for Computing in the Humanities)
Milad Doueihi, University of Glasgow (UK)
Ioannis Doukas, University of Athens (Greece)
Iain Emsley (UK)
Jonathan Gray, OKF + Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)
Jean-Claude Guédon, Université de Montréal (Canada)
Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord + Cambridge University (France)
Rufus Pollock, OKF + University of Cambridge (UK)
Niels-Oliver Walkowski, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Germany)
Laura Welcher, Director, The Rosetta Project, The Long Now Foundation (USA)
Rob Myers (UK)
Simon Worthington Mute Publishing - AoDL Live/Open archiving (UK)

Invite other prospective members:
- John MacFarlane (Philippe)
- Representative from A Way To Teach (Philippe)
- Representative from Discovery Project (Jonathan)
Ask around for other people to invite
Arrange first IRC meeting!
Discuss WG purpose and projects
Contact: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/