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[Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>]

This is a great response and provides lots of opportunities
for follow-up.

Carol

>Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:55:33 -0800
>From: Stephanie Wood <swood@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
>Subject: Re:
>To: Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
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>Dear Carol,
>
>I love the idea of an institutional repository for digital faculty-authored
>materials, works-in-progress, and datasets.  I am sure there are faculty
>producing such materials without making it well known, but for the most
>part, we are still in the stage of encouraging such production and trying to
>help make it possible.  The Feminist Humanities Project (FHP) and Wired
>Humanities Projects (WHP) have helped produce what we call Digital Teaching
>Units (DTUs), now in considerable number.  The URL is:
>http://server.fhp.uoregon.edu/dtu/entry/dtu.shtml  The username is dtu and
>the password is 222hijinx.  These are not accessible to the world because of
>copyright issues -- they are only available to faculty and students who are
>given the passwords.  It would be a dream come true to have help getting
>permissions for the images and texts that these sites employ so that we
>could make them more accessible to the larger scholarly world.  It would
>also be great to put them on a server that would be more permanent, since
>WHP funding is somewhat insecure.
>
>The other large endeavor we are undertaking (with the participation of James
>Fox) is building a Virtual Mesoamerican Archive with digitized primary
>sources from US, European, and Mexican archives and special collections.
>This will consist of three large searchable databases: of relevant
>institutional sites, of digitized materials, and of related scholarly sites
>(including some authored here at the UO, but many more from all over the
>world).  The digitized primary source material section will include two
>pictorial manuscripts owned by the UO Museum of Natural History, as well as
>materials from participating global institutions.  Besides facsimiles of
>manuscripts, we aim to include transcriptions and translations.  We also aim
>to include photographs of cultural objects located in museums.  I am not
>sure that the UOMNH wants to house the virtual exhibit of its Mexican
>pictorials or its 100 +/- cultural objects on its own web page, so, again,
>an institutional server would be wonderful for all of these things.
>
>The question of formats is one that we are constantly struggling with -- not
>just quality of images and formats for text, but also how to label/catalogue
>everything -- in  order to encourage global uniformity in such things.  We'd
>also love to have training in "harvesting" methods.
>
>Regarding other faculty to approach, I'd recommend James Mohr and John
>Nicols in History.  Perhaps Lise Nelson in Geography.
>
>I don't think I have answered all your questions, and I probably do not know
>answers to some of them, but I'd love to speak to you.  It would be good to
>have Judith Musick (FHP/WHP Director) in on the conversation, too.
>
>Thanks for contacting me.
>Stephanie Wood
>WHP/FHP Coordinator