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Travis Gosa, Africana Studies and Research Center – Obama Visual Iconography
Collaborators: Katherine Reagan, Cornell University Library
In 2008 Cornell Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) began building a collection of political campaign publicity and memorabilia documenting the campaign and election of President Barack Obama. Online access to these materials will provide a unique visual iconography of the election of America's first black President. It will constitute an important teaching and research resource for understanding modern campaign strategies and political mobilization. The resulting digital collection will be of interest to multiple disciplines, including art, art history, history, American studies, Africana studies, media studies, visual studies, political science, and government.
Peter Uwe Hohendahl, German Studies, Comparative Literature – Warburg's "Atlas" Panels
Collaborators: Kizer Walker (Cornell University Library), Peter J. Potter (Cornell University Press), Christopher D. Johnson (Comparative Literature, Harvard University)
The goal of the project is to build an interactive resource for the exploration of the fragmentary "atlas of images" left by German Jewish art historian Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929). The Atlas involves the assemblage of hundreds of images juxtaposed on wood panels. An interactive, web-based treatment of the Atlas will realize Warburg's ideal, namely, that each viewer makes his or her own connections between the myriad images presented in the Atlas. This website will serve as a multimedia companion to "Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought" (http://signale.cornell.edu) and will support exploration of new technologies and new partnerships in creating economically viable channels for disseminating scholarship.
Tamara Loos, History – Maps of Southeast Asia
Collaborators: Gregory Green, Cornell University Library
The goal of the project is provide online access to the early maps of Southeast Asia, which are very unique and quite well known. Currently they are available only for onsite use. The maps are of great value to courses covering the history of Southeast Asia, both at Cornell and elsewhere, providing online access will be a service to the academic community researching the region.
Kathryn March, Anthropology – Digital Tamang
The goal is developing a Digital Tamang Study Center by creating an online archive for both original and secondary source materials, organized in such a way that it is accessible to members of the local Tamang village community. Initial contents will include field research material, based upon 37 years of research among the Tamang of central highland Nepal. The project will address important cultural heritage issues pertaining to privacy and rights of access by identifying public access materials and those which remain restricted to Tamang community.
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