Women and Independence in Latin America: A New Multimedia Community-Contributed and Community-Driven Online Resource

该项目旨在通过建立公众对妇女参与独立战争的兴趣，以及妇女在拉丁美洲政治中前所未有的存在，激发关于拉丁美洲妇女与独立的辩论和研究。为此，将把现有的静态只读网站发展成为社区推动和贡献的互动资源，鼓励拉丁美洲妇女自己参与和拥有。现有的网站www.genderlatam.org.uk是由美国人权委员会资助的“拉丁美洲独立性别化”（2001-2006）项目产生的，它包含了丰富的数据（2300人、3900件事件、330张图片），提供了一个重要的研究工具。自2006年以来，它已在英国和国外广泛传播，主要是在拉丁美洲独立200周年的背景下，由人权委员会（试点传播）和诺丁汉大学（高级研究中心，现代语言和文化学院）提供的资金向学术界和普通观众广泛传播。然而，该网站是在21世纪初使用当时可用的技术建立的，因此，覆盖范围有限，最重要的是功能。后续资金将使新技术的第二阶段发展能够提供新的设施，鼓励公众参与，从而从根本上加强知识交流。其目的是赋予拉丁美洲妇女权力，使她们最终能够拥有资源，从而确保长期的可持续性。为此，在英国和拉丁美洲已经确定了最终目标用户，他们将与项目团队密切合作，通过提供输入、测试功能、试验和试点来开发资源。这些用户是：a)在联合王国的拉丁美洲移徙妇女，她们将通过与项目伙伴拉丁美洲妇女权利服务处（伦敦）的合作积极参与该项目；b)在拉丁美洲选定地点的拉丁美洲妇女，她们将通过与第二个伙伴妇女博物馆网（www.womeninmuseum.net）的合作积极参与该项目，主要是在布宜诺斯艾利斯。我们希望与LAWRS和博物馆三方合作，重点关注拉丁美洲过去和现在的妇女和独立主题。由项目伙伴采购的目标用户将获得密码保护访问正在开发的网络资源，这将使他们能够以新的方式输入、操作和解释数据。他们将与团队成员一起选择和编辑材料。项目团队将建立一组社区编辑（以Wiki的模式），并为贡献者提供晋升为编辑的机会，以便将来支持该网站。一个有标记和巡逻的修订系统将被实施，以监督Facebook的设施，使未知的贡献者也参与进来。极为重要的是，与开发新数字资源有关的活动应纳入LAWRS和博物馆网络提供的教育方案，这些方案是专门为与拉丁美洲妇女接触和赋予妇女权力而设计的。与法律和社会研究所和博物馆计划的项目活动将构成伙伴组织中已经存在的更大框架的一部分，该框架旨在促进关于性别问题的辩论，改善妇女的权利和机会，并鼓励了解机会、愿望和自主。其目的是使妇女认识到妇女对拉丁美洲国家建设所作的贡献，以及妇女今天在拉丁美洲担任政治领导的潜力。用户将有机会以对他们有意义的方式开发资源，并将接受项目团队的网络技能培训。与LAWRS的联合项目名为Libertadoras，将在摄影展中展出。

The project aims to stimulate debate and research on women and Independence in Latin America by building on public interest in women's involvement in the Independence Wars, triggered by the bicentenaries, and women's unprecedented presence in Latin American politics today. To do this, an existing static, read-only web site will be developed into an interactive, commmunity-driven and commmunity-contributed resource which will encourage participation and ownership by Latin American women themselves.The existing web site www.genderlatam.org.uk, resulting from the AHRC-funded project 'Gendering Latin American Independence' (2001-2006), consists of a wealth of data (2300 people, 3900 events, 330 images) which provides an important research tool. Since 2006 it has been widely disseminated across the UK and abroad, mainly in the context of the bicentenaries of Latin American Independence, to academic and general audiences with funds made available by the AHRC (pilot dissemination) and the University of Nottingham (Centre of Advanced Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures). However the web site was built in the early 2000s using the technology available then and, as such, is limited in coverage and above all functionality. The follow-on funding will enable a second stage of development with new technologies to provide new faciltilies to encourage public engagement thus radically strengthening knowledge exchange. The aim is to empower Latin American women so that eventually they can take ownership of the resource thus ensuring long-term sustainability.To this end target users have been identified in the UK and in Latin America who will work closely with the project team to develop the resource by providing input, testing funcionality, experimenting and piloting. These users are a) Latin American women migrants in the UK who will be actively involved in the project by means of collaboration with the project partner, Latin American Women's Rights Service (London) and b) Latin American women in selected locations in Latin America who will be actively involved by means of collaboration with the second partner, the Women's Museums Network (www.womeninmuseum.net), principally in Buenos Aires. The expectation is to make this a three-way collaboration with LAWRS and the Museums, focusing on the theme of women and Independence in Latin America past and present. The target users sourced by the project partners wil be given password protected access to the developing web resource which will enable them to input, manipulate and interpret data in new ways. They will work with the team members to select and edit materials. The project team will establish a set of community editors (on the Wiki model) and opportunities for contributors to be promoted to editors within their ranks to support the site in future. A flagged and patrolled revisions system will be implemented to oversee the Facebook facility enabling unknown contributors to also participate.It is enormously important that the activities relating to the development of the new digital resource feed into the educational programmes offered by LAWRS and the museums network which are specially designed to engage with and empower Latin American women. The project activities planned with LAWRS and the museums will form part of a larger framework already in place in the partner organizations which aims to promote debate on gender issues, improve women's rights and opportunities, and encourage learning about opportunities, aspirations and autonomy. The aim is to raise women's awareness of the contribution women made to nation building in Latin America, and the potential for women's political leadership in Latin America today. The users will be given scope to develop the resource in ways that are meaningful to them and will receive training in web skills from the project team. The joint project with LAWRS, entitled Libertadoras, will be captured in a photographic exhibition.