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We are happy to share the following news with you. Please
redistribute this notice to individuals and listservs that may find
it of interest.
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS COMPUTING MOVES FORWARD
At a critical meeting on January 17, the ad hoc steering committee of
the National Initiative on Humanities and Arts Computing met to plan
the next steps in gaining a voice for the humanities and arts in the
development of the National Information Infrastructure, the
much-publicized plan for a national telecommunications system. The
group agreed on a number of action items. The Getty Art History
Information Program, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the
American Council of Learned Societies -- the sponsors of the National
Initiative -- will convene two working groups to develop a profile of
humanities and arts computing in the United States. In the coming
three months, these working groups will gather a nationwide array of
experts in scholarly, instructional, and creative computing in order
to draw a picture of the breadth and vitality of technology in the
humanities and arts.
The Working Group on Technical Requirements will define the
particular challenges that these fields pose for technology. The
Working Group on Electronic Resources will survey the range and
variety of computer-based information and tools, available and in
development for transmission on the electronic superhighways. The
findings of these working groups will be presented in June to a
national meeting of major organizations and institutions involved in
humanities and arts computing in America.
The goal of this process is to reinstate the values and basis for
community that the humanities and arts bring to the dialogue shaping
public policy. The sponsors recognize that this goal requires
gaining the recognition and support of the Clinton-Gore
administration if the special needs of this vital community are to be
met. Only a coordinated National Initiative can secure a future for
the American people's cultural heritage in the digital environment,
and guarantee the network as a medium of creativity and learning.
The Getty Art History Information Program will provide the seed money
for these initial steps, with the expectation that other interested
organizations will demonstrate their commitment to the National
Initiative through significant contributions, according to their
means.
***
At a meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information on November
19, 1993, this National Initiative was launched by a group of
twenty-five concerned leaders in the movement to automate humanities
and arts information. At that time the group produced the following
statement of purpose:
The absence of the humanities and arts in the development of a
national information infrastructure ignores the value of the American
people's cultural heritage, and the network as a medium of creativity
and learning, in the crucial formation of technology policy.
The members of the Task Force on a National Initiative for Humanities
and Arts Computing endorse the principle that humanities and arts
voices are critical -- indeed equal to the recognized interests of
the sciences -- in the balanced development of the nation's
technological infrastructure.
Reinstating the humanities and arts in the dialogue shaping this
public policy is of utmost urgency. We call for the reintroduction
of the humanities and arts in the formation of such policy.
Goals agreed upon by the Task Force:
1. Define a rubric that articulates the value of humanities and arts
computing for a democratic society.
2. Build a profile of humanities and arts computing using data that
identifies the breadth and vitality, as well as the needs, of
technology in these fields.
3. Form alliances with identified stakeholders in order to engage
programmatically in national policy development and planning.
***
For further information about the National Initiative, contact Dr.
Charles Henry, Director of Libraries, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,
NY 12601 (chhenry@xxxxxxxxxx) or Dr. Susan Siegfried, Getty Art
History Information Program, 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1100,
Santa Monica, CA 90401 (ssiegfried@xxxxxxxxx).
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TO: Our Colleagues
FROM: Ad Hoc Steering Committee of the National Initiative for
Humanities and Arts Computing
We are happy to share the following news with you. Please
redistribute this notice to individuals and listservs that may find
it of interest.
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS COMPUTING MOVES FORWARD
At a critical meeting on January 17, the ad hoc steering committee of
the National Initiative on Humanities and Arts Computing met to plan
the next steps in gaining a voice for the humanities and arts in the
development of the National Information Infrastructure, the
much-publicized plan for a national telecommunications system. The
group agreed on a number of action items. The Getty Art History
Information Program, the Coalition for Networked Information, and the
American Council of Learned Societies -- the sponsors of the National
Initiative -- will convene two working groups to develop a profile of
humanities and arts computing in the United States. In the coming
three months, these working groups will gather a nationwide array of
experts in scholarly, instructional, and creative computing in order
to draw a picture of the breadth and vitality of technology in the
humanities and arts.
The Working Group on Technical Requirements will define the
particular challenges that these fields pose for technology. The
Working Group on Electronic Resources will survey the range and
variety of computer-based information and tools, available and in
development for transmission on the electronic superhighways. The
findings of these working groups will be presented in June to a
national meeting of major organizations and institutions involved in
humanities and arts computing in America.
The goal of this process is to reinstate the values and basis for
community that the humanities and arts bring to the dialogue shaping
public policy. The sponsors recognize that this goal requires
gaining the recognition and support of the Clinton-Gore
administration if the special needs of this vital community are to be
met. Only a coordinated National Initiative can secure a future for
the American people's cultural heritage in the digital environment,
and guarantee the network as a medium of creativity and learning.
The Getty Art History Information Program will provide the seed money
for these initial steps, with the expectation that other interested
organizations will demonstrate their commitment to the National
Initiative through significant contributions, according to their
means.
***
At a meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information on November
19, 1993, this National Initiative was launched by a group of
twenty-five concerned leaders in the movement to automate humanities
and arts information. At that time the group produced the following
statement of purpose:
The absence of the humanities and arts in the development of a
national information infrastructure ignores the value of the American
people's cultural heritage, and the network as a medium of creativity
and learning, in the crucial formation of technology policy.
The members of the Task Force on a National Initiative for Humanities
and Arts Computing endorse the principle that humanities and arts
voices are critical -- indeed equal to the recognized interests of
the sciences -- in the balanced development of the nation's
technological infrastructure.
Reinstating the humanities and arts in the dialogue shaping this
public policy is of utmost urgency. We call for the reintroduction
of the humanities and arts in the formation of such policy.
Goals agreed upon by the Task Force:
1. Define a rubric that articulates the value of humanities and arts
computing for a democratic society.
2. Build a profile of humanities and arts computing using data that
identifies the breadth and vitality, as well as the needs, of
technology in these fields.
3. Form alliances with identified stakeholders in order to engage
programmatically in national policy development and planning.
***
For further information about the National Initiative, contact Dr.
Charles Henry, Director of Libraries, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,
NY 12601 (chhenry@xxxxxxxxxx) or Dr. Susan Siegfried, Getty Art
History Information Program, 401 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1100,
Santa Monica, CA 90401 (ssiegfried@xxxxxxxxx).