CHESAPEAKE REGIONAL SCHOLARS SUMMER SEMINAR IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES 2000 Building African-American Digital History Archives: A Workshop for Principal Investigators and Project Teams University of Virginia June 16-23, 2000 PROJECTS & PARTICIPANTS Friday, June 16 2:00-5:00 p.m. -- Check-In, Conference Services, Gooch-Dillard Dorms, Alderman Road; rooms located in Cauthen Residence Hall, Tree House Drive 5:00-9:00 p.m. – Reception/Dinner, Garden Room, Colonnade Hotel Guest performer: Piedmont and country blues singer-guitarist John Jackson Saturday, June 17 Morning Session, Minor Hall Auditorium 8:00-9:00 a.m. – Coffee and Light Breakfast Fare 9:00-10:00 a.m. – Welcome Address Ernest Allen Jr., "'Best of Times in the Worst of Times’: Some Thoughts on African American Studies in the Next Decade." Professor Allen is Associate Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts. 10:10-11:00 - Keynote Abdul Alkalimat, "Cyberspace and the Black Experience: A Vision for Research in eBlack Studies." Professor Alkalimat is Director of the Africana Studies Program at the University of Toledo, Moderator of H-Afro-Am, and Director of Malcolm X: A Research Site. 11:10-12:00 – William G. Thomas, Director, Virginia Center for Digital History, "Building Digital Communities" "NEH Grant Supports Web-based 'Race and Place' History Projects," Inside UVA Online, Nov. 12-18, 1999 Andrew Chancey, Project Coordinator, South Atlantic Regional Center at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities "Virginia Competing to Create Regional Center," Inside UVA Online, Jan. 21-27, 2000 12:00-1:15 – Lunch, Minor Hall Lobby Afternoon Session, Cauthen Lab  1:30-4:30 – Computer Workshop Brian Moriarty and James Owens, Teaching + Technology Associates, Carter G. Woodson Institute Transferring Files: This session will begin with a brief introduction on how to transfer files to a remote s server using WS-FTP. Web Page Creation Using Netscape Communicator: You will learn how to make links, format text, insert images into your documents and create layouts by using tables. Sunday, June 18 10:30-12:00 -- Tour of African American History Sites (optional); meet outside Cauthen Scot French, Associate Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute 1:00-5:00 – Computer Workshop, Cauthen Lab (optional) Brian Moriarty and James Owens, Teaching + Technology Associates, Carter G. Woodson Institute An introduction to spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel: In this section you will learn how to create tables, perfom calculations and make charts and graphs from your data. Basic Database Concepts: In this session we will show you the basics of how a database is constructed. We will examine different way to create tables and to structure data. Creating Historical Maps: James Owens will give a presentation on creating historical maps using Arcview. He will discuss methods for using historical data sets in map creation. Monday, June 19 All-Day Workshop, 9:00-4:30, Cauthen Lab "The Black Experience in Cyberspace" Abdul Alkalimat, Moderator, H-Afro-Am, Professor and Director of Africana Studies, University of Toledo Kate Williams, Doctoral Candidate, University of Michigan School of Information, and Research Assistant, U-M's Alliance for Community Technology Assigned Readings/Webliography The problem of the 21st century is the digital divide. This includes access to technology and technique, the machines and the skills necessary to run them. This workshop will review four main processes that together define how Black Studies has been transformed into eBlack Studies based on information technology. Abdul Alkalimat comes to this from Black Studies and Kate Williams from Information Science. This workshop is part of a recruitment process. The general mission of eBlack is to recruit Black Studies scholars and activists to utilize information technology to digitize the Black experience and build cyber power. This workshop is designed to share the experience of eBlack Studies in Toledo, to clarify a national program of action research and service education, and to initiate a national network of collaborative research. The day is organized into four 90 minute sessions. Each session has a web page and includes an introductory essay, assigned readings, assigned web sites, and suggested references for future reading and research. Each session will include a presentation (20 minutes), discussion (20 minutes), hands-on lab (30 minutes), and discussion (20 minutes). Evening Session, 7:00-9:00, Computer Workshop, Cauthen Lab (optional) Brian Moriarty and James Owens, Teaching + Technology Associates, Carter G. Woodson Institute Open Session: We will be in the lab to help with questions or to provide additional training. Tuesday, June 20 Morning Session I, 9:00-10:20, Cauthen Lab "Copyright for Digital Archives" Laura N. "Lolly" Gasaway, Director of Law Library and Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Powerpoint Presentation Morning Session II, 10:30-Noon Roundtable Discussion: "Scholarly Research and Access to Public & Private Archives" Reginald D. Butler, Associate Professor, History Department, Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute Conley L. Edwards III, The State Archivist, Library of Virginia Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., Research Archivist, Special Collections, Alderman Library Gregg Kimball, Assistant Director for Publications, Library of Virginia Readings/Resources:  John Hope Franklin, "The Dilemma of the American Negro Scholar," in Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1989): 295-308. Bettina Aptheker, "Bibliographic Comment," in In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History, ed. Gary Y. Okihiro (Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1986): 210-11. Stephen B. Oates, Epilogue to The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1975): 145-157. Afternoon Session, 1:30-4:30, Robertson Media Center, Clemons Library "Digital Image Project Management" Judith Thomas, Associate Director for Digital Media, Robertson Media Center, Clemons Library, University of Virginia Evening Session, 7:00-9:00, Computer Workshop, Cauthen Lab (optional) Brian Moriarty and James Owens, Teaching + Technology Associates, Carter G. Woodson Institute Open Session: We will be in the lab to help with questions or to provide additional training. Wednesday, June 21 Morning Session I, 9:00-10:15, Clemons Library, Robertson Media Center, Room 322B "A Model for Scholarly Collaboration: The Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs" Michael F. Plunkett, Director, Special Collections, Alderman Library, University of Virginia William A. Link, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro "Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education" Morning Session II, 10:30-Noon,Tour of Virginia Center for Digital History / Special Collections Digital Center, Alderman Library Tour of Special Collections Digital Center, First Floor, Alderman Library Edward F. Gaynor, Jr., Associate Director, Special Collections Rebecca L. Yokum, Jackson Davis Grant Coordinator Tour of Virginia Center for Digital History, Third Floor, Alderman Library William G. Thomas, Director, Virginia Center for Digital History Brandi Hughes, Student Researcher, Charlottesville Land Tax Records Afternoon Workshop I, 1:30-2:45, Cauthen Classroom "Finding Funding Sources/Writing Winning Grant Proposals" David Bearinger, Associate Director, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Kobby Hoffman, Arts & Sciences Research & Grants Administrator, University of Virginia VFH Grant Program African American Heritage Trails in Virginia Finding a Source of Funds Afternoon Workshop II, 3:00-4:30, Cauthen Classroom "Research Roundtable: Finding Individuals, Finding Communities" Reginald D. Butler, Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute Robert Vernon, Research Associate, Carter G. Woodson Institute Resources for Researching Free Black Individuals in Virginia Bill R. Linder, "Black Genealogy: Basic Steps to Research," American Association for State and Local History Technical Leaflet Evening Session, 7:00-9:00, Computer Workshop, Cauthen Lab (optional) Brian Moriarty and James Owens, Teaching + Technology Associates, Carter G. Woodson Institute Open Session: We will be in the lab to help with questions or to provide additional training. Thursday, June 22 Morning Session I, 9:00-10:45, Cauthen Classroom "Doing Oral History/New Rules for Research on Human Subjects" Gertrude Fraser, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Virginia Charles L. Perdue, Jr., Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Virginia; Co-Director of the Kevin Barry Perdue Archive of Traditional Culture Nancy J. Martin-Perdue, Scholar in Residence, Anthropology Department, University of Virginia; Co-Director of the Kevin Barry Perdue Archive of Traditional Culture University of Virginia's Guidelines for Research on Human Subjects Human Subject IRB Forms (available as PDF through Arts & Sciences website) Comments of anthropologist Murray Wax and historian Linda Shopes on federal and university guidelines for human subject research, 39th Meeting of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, April 6, 2000 (available as PDF through commission website) Paul Thompson, "The Interview," in The Voice of the Past: Oral History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978, repr. 1984): 165-185. John A. Neunschwander, Oral History and the Law (Albuquerque: Oral History Association,1993). Oral History Association, Oral History Evaluation Guidelines, Pamphlet Three. (To order copies, contact: Oral History Association, 1093 Broxton Avenue, No. 720, Los Angeles, California 90024). Oral History: A Brief Bibliography and Guide to Resources Morning Session II, 11:00-12:00 Film, Alan Berliner, "Nobody's Business" Afternoon Session, 2:00-4:30, Cauthen Lab "Virtual Unrealities: Black Figures and White Fictions" Stephen Railton, Professor, English Department, University of Virginia Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive Mark Twain In His Times: An Electronic Archive Evening Session, 7:00-9:00, Computer Workshop, Cauthen Lab (optional) Brian Moriarty and James Owens, Teaching + Technology Associates, Carter G. Woodson Institute Open Session: We will be in the lab to help with questions or to provide additional training. Friday, June 23 Morning Session, 9:00-12:00, Cauthen Classroom  "What Next? Consultation and Collaboration" Reginald D. Butler, Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute Scot French, Associate Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute William G. Thomas, Director, Virginia Center for Digital History Funded by a generous grant from the Ford Foundation.