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Topic 259 EJOURNAL-Humanities and Arts
peg:visionary cyberculture zone 8:36 PM Dec 3, 1993
From: EJOURNAL - November 93 Volume 3 Number 3
HUMANITIES AND ARTS INITIATIVE: THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
There's a sense of urgency, almost crisis, about this situation. We ask
that you write _EJournal_ to endorse the statement that follows this brief
excerpt from a message we received on 20 November 1993 from Michael Joyce:
"[I] recently participate[d] in an ad-hoc meeting in Washington, D.C.
regarding Arts and Humanities computing and the NII, co-hosted
by the (ARL, CAUSE and Educom sponsored) Coalition for
Networked Information and the Getty Foundation. The meeting
involved some twenty participants including presidents or
directors of a wide range of humanities organizations,
information industry and publishing organizations as well as
officials of NEA, NEH, and NSF. Meeting co-chair Charles
Henry, Director of Vassar College Library, set the tone for
the meeting by noting that `more space is devoted in the NII
prospectus to discuss automating heating of federal buildings
than to arts and humanities computing.' . . . . . . .
"The meeting ended with a consensus on the need to define a
rubric for humanities and the arts in NII; to collect data on
computing in the humanities and the arts to support
congressional lobbying; and to form alliances with identified
stake-holders in these efforts. A preliminary crisis
statement drafted by a steering committee will be presented
to congress and the administration, and widely publicized. . . . "
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[Here is the Statement itself, the one we are asking you to "sign"]
A NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR HUMANITIES AND ARTS COMPUTING
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 dialog 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 to be facilitated by a
steering committee:
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
more programmatically engage in national policy development
and planning.
by the ad-hoc steering committee:
Charles Henry Susan Siegfried
Coalition for Networked Information Research Projects Manager
Director of the Libraries The Getty Art History
Vassar College Information Program
Stanley Katz Marilyn Schmitt
President Program Manager
American Council of The Getty Art History
Learned Societies Information Program
If you want your name to be among those who have "signed" in support of these
principles, please send a message approximating "I support the ad-hoc committee
on the National Inititative ....."
Send it to our mailbox, please >>> EJOURNAL@ALBANY.bitnet
**not** by return e-mail to our Listserv.
We will see that it is forwarded.
Thanks.
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