WWW provides digital content management services, called Regenerated Identities
(RegID), to support the development, deployment, and long-term maintenance
of digital humanities research with special focus on Africa and the African diaspora.
RegID, a new concept of gateway services, is a mid-way path between
developing a single software and using a pipeline of multiple software to
incorporate a wider range of research methodological requirements.
Through streamlined, online, user-friendly interfaces, RegID is a
technical structure that combines a variety of components (usually software
and virtual services) to support a community-specific requirement in
data collection and analyses.
RegID is currently supporting over 15 major digital humanities projects in
the field of African Studies. These projects were selected because
they share a similar theme enabling
an exploration of the lives of people of African descent, many of whom were
enslaved and forcibly transported elsewhere in the world.
RegID includes a custom graphical user interface that fulfills
specific needs of various research projects, thus enabling development
of robust databases that lead to the creation and semi-automated self-publication
of research outcomes on the world wide web. We strive to include as many projects as
possible and are always looking for ways in which to overlap
linkable data through computational methodologies.
Regenerated Identities service includes the following features:
