The project Timeline of Historical Film Colors embraces the two values of collaboration and openness/transparency.
Collaboration
Flueckingers’ Timeline of Historical Film Colors Project excels at collaboration as defined by The Renaissance Society of America. The goal of this project is to develop an interdisplinary approach on film studies by restoring old films, the aesthetics of film, and how different film restoration and color affects how people view the film. Barbara not only worked with other DH researchers in the field, but also worked alongside film archivist, film restorers, and film researchers.
Openness/Transparency
The project does not provide open source access to the film she used in her project. The images she provides are not available for download or repurpose. As the project is still in progress, Barbara does not succeed in the value of Transparency. She does not provide easily accessible information on the exact methodology she uses to digitize films and provide accurate color analysis.
Overall Evaluation
The project meets some DH values, but fails in other values. It excels at collaboration, iteration, and diversity. It shows iteration by the fact the project is ongoing and new information is added each time a new data set is found. It fails in openness and transparency because the scholarship by Flueckinger does not provide enough information to replicate her experiment. In addition, she does not provide access to the raw data she used to create the database.