[Bilimsel Haber] ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online*
*Location:* 	United States
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The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University is
pleased to announce the availability of a number of $1000 grants to fund
current research projects involving the online collection of the recent
history of science, technology, and industry. The grants are offered
through ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online.

With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, ECHO offers consulting
services to institutions and individuals with online projects or ideas.
We tailor our advice to your project’s scope, focus, and budget to help
you implement and build your digital history collection. We can help
with strategic project planning, technology, website design, and
outreach. In the past we have worked with the National Institutes of
Health, NASA, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and
many individual researchers.

Examples of projects that employ ECHO’s methods and technologies to
collect and present historical materials on the Web can be found at the
ECHO collecting center and include the September 11 Digital Archive, a
collection of over 200,000 stories, images, email, and documents from
the attacks and their aftermath; the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank:
Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita; A Thin Blue
Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit, a joint project by ECHO and
the National Institute of Health; and Remembering Columbia STS-107, an
online exhibit by NASA.

Please submit a proposal of no more than 500 words and a C.V. to
echo at chnm.gmu.edu by 15 November 2006.

	Sean Takats
Center for History and New Media
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MSN 1E7
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
USA

Email: echo at chnm.gmu.edu <mailto:echo at chnm.gmu.edu>

Visit the website at http://echo.gmu.edu/