Our project Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade has been funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Foundation for the Humanities (NEH) as well as generous donors. The project has a number of people particpate throughout the years but the primary project directors are Daryle Williams, Walter Hawthorne, and myself.
To see more about the project go to http://enslaved.org
Description
Enslaved.org is a major initiative to focus on and recover those involved in the historical slave trade <https://enslaved.org/learn/>. To do so, the project attempt to do several things.
- To break down silos and bring together existing projects that have records of those involved in the historical slave trade <https://enslaved.org/data/>.
- To publish datasets of those scholars and institutions who have extracted data from historical records. In the process, we have started a journal, the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation <https://jsdp.enslaved.org>.
- To do this work, we have developed a whole new way of doing data work that includes developing an ontology, using Linked Open Data, using Wikibase, and utilizing Knowledge Graph technologies <https://docs.enslaved.org>.
In this way, the project is a number of projects under a very large umbrella. The project started with a planning grant and a series of meetings that brough together a number of experts (see the project history https://enslaved.org/projectHistory/)