Thanks for your patience during our recent outage at scalar.usc.edu. While Scalar content is loading normally now, saving is still slow, and Scalar's 'additional metadata' features have been disabled, which may interfere with features like timelines and maps that depend on metadata. This also means that saving a page or media item will remove its additional metadata. If this occurs, you can use the 'All versions' link at the bottom of the page to restore the earlier version. We are continuing to troubleshoot, and will provide further updates as needed. Note that this only affects Scalar projects at scalar.usc.edu, and not those hosted elsewhere.
Many CMSs developed and used by digital humanists integrate or are built upon DC standards, including Scalar, Omeka, CollectiveAccess, and Mukurtu. "Rather than flattening data into binaries to fit existing data models and international standards, we strive to represent uncertainty, historical contingency, conflict, variation, instability, and multidimensionality. The stakes are high: in an age when we recognize the right to be forgotten, we must also weigh the danger...of hiding our history" [5].