October 2007 Archives

The NEH and other U.S. federal government agencies are pushing the digital humanities projects to result in something that can be shared. If this is an application that people can use, especially an application that resides on a central server, then the NEH is also wanting provisions for long-term maintenance. Ultimately, digital humanities projects should seek to be a resource that other scholarly work can build on. In this post, I want to explore what this might mean for web-based applications.

I was looking around the web for references about EAD, an XML vocabulary mentioned in a Digital Humanities Working Group meeting Monday. I could see cases where people would want to have documents marked up with both TEI and EAD.