Early Modern Forum: establishing an international virtual network of scholars working on early modern studies. [NB Highlight Notice application]

早期现代论坛：建立一个从事早期现代研究的学者的国际虚拟网络。

• 批准号: AH/J003360/1
• 负责人: Mark Knights
• 金额: $ 4.59万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ003360%2F1
• 关键词: Early; Modern; Forum; establishing; international

The project will link Warwick's large and very strong community of early modern scholars to other centres of early modern expertise in the US and France in order to create a virtual forum for the exchange of ideas about Britain, Europe and America in the period c.1500-c.1850. The network will link the research cultures of leading universities and centres of research excellence: Warwick, Yale, Boston, Vanderbilt, Huntington Library-USC and the Sorbonne, Paris. Rather than linking particular scholars the aim is to link the research communities more generally, creating an innovative form of cross-institutional collaboration.The project will make use of existing technologies, and in particular social networking, and apply them to the interactions associated with research in order to make the process of collaboration much easier. This could be interaction through forms of web-based video-conferencing or text-based collaboration in the form of shared documents, blogs, wikis and chats. These aids to research collaboration, it is envisaged, will become part of routine research culture though one spread out over large geographical distances, creating a new type of scholarly community. In turn, such collaborations can lead to new types of research output: alongside conventional articles we might expect podcasts, video-streamed events, and discussion pages overseen by a guest academic with a particular expertise. The project thus explores how a virtual network might transform the ways in which academic research takes place between institutions that are geographically far-flung and the types of research outputs such collaborations might produce. The project will seek to make use of the mass of digitised resources that already exist for the early modern period and that are available at Warwick and participating institutions. Rather than seeking to add new collections of digital material, the project will add value to the wonderful material that is already available. These databases enable new questions to be asked of such material and new answers. For example, the ability to search databases for particular words or phrases opens up exciting possibilities of exploring different uses of the same word. The network is based on existing partnerships (with Vanderbilt and Boston) but also with emerging ones (the Huntington Library-USC, Yale and the Sorbonne). The network will benefit both members of staff and postgraduates, who will thereby be able to pursue research themes and discussions with colleagues who they might otherwise only infrequently meet physically. In turn, institutions outside the UK benefit from Warwick's expertise and lively research culture.

该项目将把华威庞大而强大的早期现代学者社区与美国和法国的其他早期现代专业中心联系起来，以创建一个关于约1500-1850年期间英国、欧洲和美国的思想交流的虚拟论坛。该网络将连接顶尖大学和卓越研究中心的研究文化：华威大学、耶鲁大学、波士顿大学、范德比尔特大学、南加州大学亨廷顿图书馆和巴黎索邦大学。该项目的目的不是将特定的学者联系起来，而是更广泛地联系研究社区，创造一种创新的跨机构合作形式。该项目将利用现有技术，特别是社交网络，并将它们应用于与研究相关的互动，以使合作过程变得更加容易。这可以是通过基于网络的视频会议形式的互动，也可以是以共享文档、博客、维基和聊天形式的基于文本的协作。据设想，这些对研究合作的帮助将成为常规研究文化的一部分，尽管这种文化分布在很大的地理距离上，创造了一种新型的学术社区。反过来，这种合作可以带来新类型的研究成果：除了传统的文章外，我们可能还会看到播客、视频流活动和由具有特定专业知识的客座学者监督的讨论页面。因此，该项目探索了虚拟网络如何改变地理上相距遥远的机构之间进行学术研究的方式，以及这种合作可能产生的研究成果的类型。该项目将寻求利用早期现代时期已经存在的大量数字化资源，这些资源可在华威及其参与机构获得。该项目不是寻求增加新的数字材料收藏，而是为现有的精彩材料增加价值。这些数据库使人们能够对这些材料提出新的问题和新的答案。例如，在数据库中搜索特定单词或短语的能力开启了探索同一单词的不同用法的令人兴奋的可能性。该网络基于现有的合作伙伴关系(与范德比尔特和波士顿)，但也与新兴的合作伙伴(亨廷顿图书馆-南加州大学、耶鲁大学和索邦大学)。该网络将使工作人员和研究生受益，从而使他们能够探讨研究主题并与同事进行讨论，否则他们可能只会偶尔见面。反过来，英国以外的机构受益于华威的专业知识和活跃的研究文化。