The Rubric was primarily written for practitioners of public history at museums and historic sites. However, your journal assignment for today asked you to consider how the Rubric might differ if it were written for digital projects relating to the history of slavery. Specifically, what if we applied the Rubric to databases? Please write all responses to the prompts below. here.

Instructions:

1. Describe the project assigned to you. What is it? Who’s behind it? How is it funded? What does it do, in real life and/or online?

2. Use the three central components of the Rubric (multi-disciplinary research, relationship building, and interpretation) to do the following:

   Review the as holistically as possible. In other words, base your review on the project as a whole, not just one or two pages of their website.

   Based on your review and the Rubric, draft a set of recommendations for the project regarding its engagement of descendant communities.