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Recent News

  • The Einstein Papers project at CalTech and the Embryo Project at ASU recently held a workshop on digital publishing of scholarly works. View the recent workshops organized and sponsored by digitalHPS consortium projects.
  • A list of technologies being used and investigated by the projects in the consortium and the reports that have been written to date are now available.
  • We are also working on developing an institutional repository at the MBL that will be open to the HPS community and serve to enable the sharing of digital objects among the many current and future projects. If you would like to be involved in this process, please contact Grant Yamashita.


Resolution on Establishment of the Consortium

20 April 2011

Representatives from several digital HPS projects met at the Einstein Papers home at Caltech, hosted by Diana Buchwald and her staff. All participants (see list below) would like to express their gratitude to our hosts. Their hospitality, together with the perfect weather, wonderful setting, and outstanding food made this a very productive meeting. (see http://www.einstein.caltech.edu/digital_HPS_workshop.html)

The workshop was the eighth in a series on digital HPS Projects, the others held at the Marine Biological Laboratory: (for more information, see workshops). The momentum for this initiative continues to build, as we have been working through a basic understanding of some of the issues, are beginning to share resources and ideas, are making progress on resolving questions related to ontologies and metadata, and are growing the group to include leaders of digital editing projects, as well as librarians/archivists, and historians with on-line projects. The workshops have been funded by NSF, starting with the Embryo Project grant to Arizona State University, and have been supported through the guidance of program officer Fred Kronz. Kronz envisions development of processes, protocols, and tools across projects that can help each project become more efficient and more effective. We agree and have devoted all of our projects to this goal, which is also connected to our commitment to open access (OA) whenever possible. To further advance this agenda we passed the following:


Resolution

On Saturday April 16, in the meeting room of the Einstein Papers, we resolved to establish a Digital HPS Consortium. The mission is to develop, support, and promote digital HPS projects, including editing, publishing, and scholarly tools to make this possible. Insofar as possible, and recognizing the challenges and constraints, the Consortium is committed to open source and open access products.

Membership will start with all of those in attendance at the April workshop, and we will invite all those who attended the earlier workshops to participate as well. We want to be inclusive, while also remaining manageable, so the membership will remain informal at first and will develop selection criteria and a process as needed.

Most importantly, we need to enhance our visibility, which will occur largely through a lively web presence. This will build on the digitalhps.org website that we already own. We need volunteers to review that website and make suggestions for revisions – of style, format, and content. Felicity Snyder and the ASU Postdoc Grant Yamashita will help with that process.

The Initial Steering Group will consist of Robert Iliffe, Manfred Laubichler, Jane Maienschein, Cathy Norton, and Urs Schoepflin, with others added as needed.

Working groups include as a start (with others invited to join as desired):

  • Metadata: Sharing and working toward sharing standards – scholarly and technical issues
    • Wally Hooper, Diane Rielinger, Scott Walter, Dirk Wintergruen, Grant Yamashita
  • Tools: Developing and testing tools
    • Wally Hooper, Manfred Laubichler
  • Berlin 9 Open Access: helping to develop programming for the SPARC meeting November 9-10, insuring an HPS presence there (http://www.berlin9.org/ )
    • Manfred Laubichler, Jane Maienschein, Urs Schoepflin

Workshop Attendees

Organizers:

  • Diana Kormos Buchwald, The Einstein Papers Project, Caltech
  • Manfred Laubichler, The Embryo Project, Arizona State University
  • Jane Maienschein, MBL-Arizona State University History Project

(with significant support from Felicity Snyder, Arizona State University and Emily de Araujo, Einstein papers)

Workshop Participants

  • Richard Creath, The Carnap Project, Arizona State University
  • Charlotte Erwin, Caltech Institute Archives
  • Judith Goodstein, Caltech
  • Wallace Hooper, Indiana University
  • Robert Iliffe, University of Sussex
  • Paul Israel, The Edison Papers Project, Rutgers University
  • Catherine Kounelis, The Paul Langevin Archives, Ècole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris
  • Kerry Magruder, History of Science Collections, The University of Oklahoma
  • William R. Newman, The Chymistry of Isaac Newton, Indiana University
  • Alison Pearn, The Darwin Correspondence Project, Cambridge
  • Diane Rielinger, MBLWHOI Library, Archives
  • Ze'ev Rosenkranz, The Einstein Papers Project, Caltech
  • Tilman Sauer, The Einstein Papers Project, Caltech
  • Urs Schoepflin, The Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
  • Scott Walter, The Poincaré Correspondence Project, Université Nancy

To See Earlier Workshops and Participants: Workshops

The Community

These projects and groups are committed to interoperability, promoting standards, and providing support for digital projects in the history, philosophy, and social studies of science (HPS).



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