Both projects have values that heavily align with the values of digital humanities.
Openness
The American Yawp emphasizes accessibility as a value. The website states:
“The American Yawp is an open resource: you are encouraged to use it, download it, distribute it, and modify it as you see fit. The project is formally operated under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA) License and is designed to meet the standards of a “Free Cultural Work.” We are happy to share it and we hope you do the same.”
The American Yawp‘s strife to maintain a free, open resource aligns with the digital humanities value of openness- the open and accessible sharing of ideas. In this way, we can see how the values of digital humanities and the discipline of history have aligned to create a valuable project, The American Yawp.
Collaboration
DALME’s website states,
“DALME has established ongoing relationships with a growing number of individual researchers willing to contribute materials and expertise to the project…
“We are eager to extend our collaborations with all scholars interested in the material culture of medieval Europe, including philologists and linguists interested in the languages and dialects covered by our collection.”
DALME welcomes collaboration from any researcher, utilizing the knowledge of scholars in a wide variety of fields. The project even extends an invitation to visitors of the website to reach out if they are interested in becoming a partner. DALME functions through balancing the perspectives and expertise of researchers from different areas and backgrounds. This aligns with the digital humanities value of collaboration. Thus, DALME has utilized this value of digital humanities to create a useful historical project.
