For analysis, I chose the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at NYU.  If you’d like to take a look at the website, you can find it here.  The organization’s mission seems to be to promote a broad and in-depth understanding of ancient cultures.  They do this by encouraging scholarship, compiling and providing useful resources, and making their findings accessible for free on their website.  Resources on the site include (but are not limited to) the following: 1.) an archive of past exhibits that includes video previews, virtual tours and annotated photographs of individual artifacts, 2.) Online access to the ISAW library collections, 3.) Online version of ISAW research journals, 4.) ISAW Papers, an open-content, reviewed journal.

In terms of considering what makes this a good digital humanities project, I’m drawn to the idea of accessibility, as discussed in the Drucker text.  It seems that one digital humanities goal is to free knowledge from the exclusive clutches of the elite in favor of allowing a larger portion of the population to have access and the opportunity to become more participatory.  ISAW’s website promotes this in a number of ways.  For one thing, allows people who might be unable to travel to exhibit locations to experience as fully as website technology will allow.  For another, it provides online access to scholarly publications without requiring a membership or university affiliation.  Finally, ISAW Papers encourages relevant scholarly contributions from all, which might encourage more independent scholars to participate in related projects.  While these are certainly not the only ways in which the ISAW site promotes the idea of accessible knowledge, they serve as strong examples of how this project embodies one digital humanities objective. 🙂