[Themaintainers] Maintaining SlaveVoyages.org

[lee vinsel]

Dear All,

A few years ago, I heard historian David Eltis talk about the database and
website he had built, SlaveVoyages.org, which contains the records of more
than 36,000 between Africa and the Americas. He was worried, perhaps even
pessimistic, about the long-term maintenance of the database. As many
Maintainers community members can tell us, the Digital Humanities is
replete with tales of projects being built and then falling into disuse,
disrepair, and ultimately dissolution.

Well, when it comes to the SlaveVoyages database, at least, there is some
good news. As a press release out of Emory University describes, a new
consortium of 6 institutions has come together to preserve the database.
Check it out here:
https://news.emory.edu/features/2021/03/voyages-consortium/index.html

Lee

-- 
Co-Director
The Maintainers
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