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This wiki is used to produce and query a knowledge base developed as part of the [https://ahrc.ukri.org/ Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)] funded project [http://beyondnotability.org/ Beyond Notability: Re-evaluating Women's Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage, 1870 – 1950], running from 2021 to 2024, details of which are available on the [http://beyondnotability.org/ project website]. | This wiki is used to produce and query a knowledge base developed as part of the [https://ahrc.ukri.org/ Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)] funded project [http://beyondnotability.org/ Beyond Notability: Re-evaluating Women's Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage, 1870 – 1950], running from 2021 to 2024, details of which are available on the [http://beyondnotability.org/ project website]. | ||
== Values == | |||
This wiki is underpinned by set of values. We anticipate these will evolve. And as the project develops we will provide examples of how we acted in response to these values. If you have suggestions, please make them in the Discussion tab. | This wiki is underpinned by set of values. We anticipate these will evolve. And as the project develops we will provide examples of how we acted in response to these values. If you have suggestions, please make them in the Discussion tab. | ||
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* Building a website is an intellectual act. | * Building a website is an intellectual act. | ||
* Websites are built to die. But data organised and presented by that website must be produced in such a way that it is ready for long-term digital preservation. | * Websites are built to die. But data organised and presented by that website must be produced in such a way that it is ready for long-term digital preservation. | ||
** This website is backed up as a part of the Wikibase Cloud [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299505 disaster recovery regime]. Dumps of project data are regularly made, and will in due course be deposited as a dataset. | |||
* The products of our labour are hard to understand unless we document that labour... | * The products of our labour are hard to understand unless we document that labour... | ||
** See [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project:Meta Meta] for our attempts to show our work. If you can't find something, ask us for it. | ** See [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project:Meta Meta] for our attempts to show our work. If you can't find something, ask us for it. | ||
* ...and yet datasets like ours will always outlive the rationale for their creation. | * ...and yet datasets like ours will always outlive the rationale for their creation. | ||
* Digital infrastuctures are material resources that contribute to the climate crisis: their production requires energy, the storing and movement of data requires energy, and ideas like 'the cloud' can deepen the perceived ethereality of the digital. | * Digital infrastuctures are material resources that contribute to the climate crisis: their production requires energy, the storing and movement of data requires energy, and ideas like 'the cloud' can deepen the perceived ethereality of the digital. | ||
** This wiki uses the [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page#Acknowledgements | ** This wiki uses the [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page#Acknowledgements Wikibase Cloud] infrastructure. Wikibase Cloud uses as a hosting platform. Google Cloud claims to be the [https://cloud.google.com/sustainability 'cleanest cloud in industry']. We note that Google Cloud basis these claims on a combination of renewable "off-taking" and off-setting, the greenness of which is discussed in a [https://royalsociety.org/news/2020/12/digital-tech-vital-net-zero-royal-society-report/ recent report by the Royal Society (2020)]. We continue to monitor the environmental claims of Google Cloud. | ||
== Bibliography == | |||
{partial, incomplete, evolving} | {partial, incomplete, evolving} | ||
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* van der Wel, Jack, et al. Homosaurus.org linked data vocabulary (2013-). http://homosaurus.org/ | * van der Wel, Jack, et al. Homosaurus.org linked data vocabulary (2013-). http://homosaurus.org/ | ||
* Whose Knowledge? (2016-). https://whoseknowledge.org | * Whose Knowledge? (2016-). https://whoseknowledge.org | ||
== Contact Us == | |||
* To contact us email beyondnotables[at]gmail[dot]com. | |||
