History of SAHARA
SAHARA, an online image archive for teaching and research, had its genesis in 2006 when the leadership of the Society of Architectural Historians was invited by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to participate in a two-day think tank called the Scholarly Communications Institute (SCI) at University of Virginia. The focus of SCI in 2006 was the field of architectural history. Among those invited to participate in the two-day think tank were scholars, graduate students, journal editors, librarians, technology experts, publishing experts, representatives of SAH and others who focused on the issue of how the field of architectural history could benefit from digital presentation of scholarship. As a result of SCI, the Society was invited by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to submit grant applications for two projects, namely SAHARA, which has been released, and JSAH Online, which will be published in 2010.
To create SAHARA as an online archive that enables scholars to upload and download images through a shared online site, SAH partnered with ARTstor, the New York-based online repository with more than 1 million images for teaching and research in the arts and humanities.
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