EH.N: ANN: ECHO Online Collection Grants and a Digital History Workshop

[Connie Moon Sehat]

The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason 
University announces two exciting opportunities for historians of 
science, technology, and industry: ECHO Online Collection Grants and 
a Digital History Workshop in New York.

CHNM's ECHO project is pleased to announce the availability of up to 
five $1000 grants to fund current research projects involving the 
online collection of the recent history of science, technology, and 
industry. ECHO offers tailored consulting services to institutions 
and individual researchers with online projects or ideas, including 
help with strategic project planning, technology, website design, and 
outreach in building digital history collections. Examples of 
projects that employ ECHO's methods and technologies can be found at 
the ECHO Collecting Center (http://echo.gmu.edu/collecting.php) and 
include _A Thin Blue Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit_ 
(http://history.nih.gov/exhibits/thinblueline/), a joint project by 
ECHO and the National Institute of Health, and _Remembering Columbia 
STS-107_ (http://history.nasa.gov/columbia/Introduction.html), an 
online exhibit by NASA. Please submit a grant proposal of no more 
than 500 words and a C.V. to chnm at gmu.edu with the subject line, 
"ECHO grant proposal," by December 1, 2007.

CHNM also invites public historians of science, technology, and 
industry in the New York area to our next workshop on the theory and 
practice of digital history. The workshop will be held on January 17, 
2008 at the New York Public Library. Participants will explore the 
ways that digital technologies can facilitate the research, teaching, 
and presentation of history; genres of online history and tools; 
website infrastructure and design; scholarly collaboration; 
digitization and online collecting; the process of identifying and 
building online history audiences; and issues of copyright and 
preservation. There is no registration fee, but spaces are limited. 
Please submit an application form by December 1, 2007 (available at 
http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/3794/); accepted participants will 
be notified by December 10.

About ECHO and the Center for History and New Media. Since 2001, the 
ECHO project (Exploring and Collecting History Online) Science, 
Technology, and Industry, http://echo.gmu.edu) has promoted the 
collection and dissemination of the history of science and technology 
on the Web with the generous support of the Alfred P. Sloan 
Foundation. Since 1994, CHNM has used digital media and computer 
technology to develop innovative historical methods and tools for 
scholars, educators, students, and the general public.

Connie Moon Sehat
Digital Historian and Assistant Research Professor
Center for History and New Media
Department of History and Art History
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MSN 1E7
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
703.993.9277