2006 Award for Outstanding Achievement
The SDH/SEMI has awarded its 2006 Award for Outstanding Achievement
for Computing in the Arts and Humanities to Isobel Grundy, Patricia
Clements and Susan Brown of the Orlando Project. The SDH/SEMI is the
leading academic society in Canada in the field of digital humanities.
This award has been awarded annually to one or two people since 2003.
Previous recipients include Willard McCarty, Jean-Claude Guédon, Ian
Lancashire, Paul Fortier, and Elaine Nardocchio. The award
acknowledges those who have made a significant contribution to
computing in the arts and humanities whether theoretical, applied, or
in the area of community building. Grundy, Clements, and Brown were
selected for their leadership of the innovative Orlando project of
international significance.
The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the
British Isles (www.ualberta.ca/ORLANDO/) is developing a online
scholarly historical text database connected to an "overarching
account of women's writing across the centuries" which will appear as
three volumes. Orlando has built a search interface, protocol, and a
web- based delivery system for this born-digital resource.
The Orlando project has been funded by SSHRC through the Major
Collaborative Research Initiatives Program, by the Universities of
Alberta and Guelph, and by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. It is
an impressive example of a project experimenting with computing in the
context of meaningful humanities inquiry and the site for training for
graduate students in digital scholarship.
The SDH/SEMI Award Committee was unanimous in their selection of
Susan Brown, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy for the 2006 award.
Geoffrey Rockwell, Ray Siemens, Christian Vandendorpe, and Aimee
Morrison of the Award Committee of SDH/SEMI