Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to let you know that the Humanist mailing list is active again, after a long hiatus. Following is the first welcome message from Willard McCarty, explaining how this important discussion venue for the Digital Humanities community will work in the future. The past members of the list have not been automatically migrated to the new mail-server, so both old and new members will have to apply for subscription. Yours sincerely. Fabio Ciotti. ---------- Forwarded message --------- Dear colleagues, Welcome to Humanist! We begin with this message after 200 days of silence and a great amount of cooperative work between Cologne and London to accomplish its migration to Universitt zu Kln. Thanks are due to all those involved, without whom the undesirable would be a fact. But it isn't, and I am grateful. Allow me first some housekeeping. Then other messages will follow. So, two matters for your attention. (1) Where it is. From now on Humanist lives at the same web address as before, dhhumanist.org, which is the only one you should use for it. The web system is likely to be moved to another server in the future, in which case will continue to work, whereas a server-based address will stop working. (2) How it goes. Humanist now has an editorial policy and an Editorial Board, for which see the About page (https://dhhumanist.org/announcement.html). The policy, worked out with the help of the Board, is as brief as I could get it and as close as I could make it to Humanist's de facto practices over the last three decades. My preference was to leave the policy implicit, but I've concluded that Humanist must have an explicit one and that it has to be spelled out for all to see. The Editorial Board is intended to function in much the same way as for journals, to provide the Editor with colleagues on whom to rely, and by its membership to signify the reach of Humanist in several dimensions. The Board also marks a transition that was accomplished years ago: from a clearing house of information to a form of scholarly publication. Now for the good stuff. Yours, WM -- Willard McCarty, Professor emeritus, King's College London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews; Humanist www.mccarty.org.uk _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php -- Fabio Ciotti Department of "Studi letterari, Filosofici e di Storia dell’arte" - University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Chair, European Association for Digital Humanities Chief Editor, "Umanistica Digitale" https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/ @Fabio_Ciotti https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti f.ciotti@pec.it https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti https://twitter.com/fabio_ciotti