Working Groups/Humanities

= Working Group on Open Resources in the Humanities =

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

Possible Projects

 * 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.

Active

 * 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)

Emeritus

 * Dr Martin Brett, Ivo of Chartres Project, University of Cambridge (UK)

Projects

 * Registry of open resources in the humanities: http://ckan.net/tag/humanities

Participate

 * Introduce yourself at: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-humanities

Tasks

 * 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/

Other related links

 * http://wiki.okfn.org/DigitalHumanities