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

该项目将连接沃里克的早期现代学者的大型和非常强大的社区，以早期现代的专业知识在美国和法国的其他中心，以创造一个虚拟的论坛，交流有关英国，欧洲和美国在1500年至1850年期间的想法。该网络将连接一流大学和卓越研究中心的研究文化：沃里克、耶鲁、波士顿、范德比尔特、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，而是将研究界更广泛地联系起来，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，并将其应用于与研究有关的互动，以使合作过程更加容易。这可以是通过基于网络的视频会议或以共享文件、博客、维基和聊天为形式的基于文本的协作进行互动。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，这样的合作可以带来新类型的研究成果：除了传统的文章，我们可能会期待播客，视频流事件，以及由具有特定专业知识的客座学者监督的讨论页面。因此，该项目探讨了虚拟网络如何改变地理位置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类型。该项目将寻求利用大量的数字化资源，这些资源已经存在于现代早期，并可在沃里克和参与机构获得。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值。这些数据库使人们能够对这类材料提出新的问题并得到新的答案。例如，在数据库中搜索特定单词或短语的能力为探索同一单词的不同用法提供了令人兴奋的可能性。该网络是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（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都受益，他们将因此能够从事研究主题并与他们可能很少见面的同事进行讨论。反过来，英国以外的机构受益于沃里克的专业知识和活跃的研究文化。

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.