CLIO FOUNDATION
Cause Area
- Arts & Culture
- Community
- Computers & Technology
- Education & Literacy
Location
600 11TH AVE WHUNTINGTON, WV 25701 United StatesOrganization Information
Mission Statement
The Clio Foundation seeks to connect curiosity with expertise. Our website and mobile application helps educators, local historians, libraries, and historical societies reach the public "where they stand." Clio picks up a user's location and connects them to information about nearby historical and cultural sites. By using this platform, community institutions and individuals can create individual entries and complete walking tours that make history come alive.
Description
Clio is an educational website and mobile application that guides the public to thousands of historical and cultural sites throughout the United States. Built by scholars for public benefit, each entry includes a concise summary and useful information about a historical site, museum, monument, landmark, or other site of cultural or historical significance. In addition, "time capsule" entries allow users to learn about historical events that occurred around them. Each entry offers turn-by-turn directions as well as links to relevant books, articles, videos, primary sources, and credible websites.
Clio offers a compelling intellectual challenge as professional historians work with local history experts to create and vet entries in an open digital environment. Ambitious in scope, Clio allows scholars and their students to publish humanities scholarship using an innovative digital format that will instantly reach a broad audience in ways that cannot be replicated by traditional forms of publishing. We believe that there is something powerful that occurs when our sense of the past connects with our sense of place.