Dear colleagues On the 14th May 2007 the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) publicly announced its intention to withdraw funding from its digital service provider, the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) from March 2008. The announcement is available on:
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2007/information_for_applicants_to_AHRC_ june_deadline.asp An initial response by AHDS is available at: http://ahds.ac.uk/news/ahrc-news-may07.htm The AHDS Homepage outlining their full range of services is available at: http://www.ahds.ac.uk/index.htm This action severely threatens UK based arts and humanities digital research and development and has now developed to the stage of petitioning the Prime Minister to request AHRC to reconsider their decision to withdraw funding. The petition is available at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/AHDSfunding please consider signing it. Gabriella Giannachi -- Prof. Gabriella Giannachi Associate Professor in Performance and New Media Co-Director Centre for Intermedia Co-Director ISN Department of Drama School of Performance Arts Exeter University Thornlea, New North Road Exeter EX4 4LA Tel : (01392) 264580 Fax : (01392) 264594 http://www.spa.ex.ac.uk/drama/staff/staff_giannachi.html ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
