Chicago skyline from Lake Michigan
Photograph: EAHN
 

EAHN at the SAH Annual Meeting 2010

During the SAH Annual Meeting in Chicago, the EAHN hosted a lunch hour session on Thursday, 22 April.   Some sixteen people attended the meeting and participated in a lively discussion led by Hilde Heynen and Nancy Stieber.  The topics ranged over a number of current issues that the EAHN is confronting, including models for enabling an EAHN peer-reviewed journal to remain open to submissions from as many countries as possible.  The general consensus of this focus group was that submissions should include an abstract in English, but that an abstract in the author’s language should be published so that keywords in that language would be available for indexing.  Another idea put forward was to publish the print version of the journal in English but include an article in the author’s language online.  The project to develop the EAHN website into a resource for researchers was also discussed.  Here suggestions were made such as developing access to web resources not only through alphanumeric lists but through links placed on maps.  Development of an international dictionary of architectural terms that would allow easy reference to the same term across a number of languages was also suggested.  The buoyant exchange of ideas reaffirmed the need to strengthen the network in order to increase communication across boundaries.