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Guided Tour of the DACB Web Site
1. For first-time visitors who want an introduction to the
DACB project:
a. A quick definition of the project:
http://www.dacb.org/what-is-dacb.html
b. How it began: http://www.dacb.org/introduction.html
c. The complete story of its beginnings, the vision, its scope,
the way it operates: http://www.dacb.org/xnmaps.html
PowerPoint presentation: http://www.dacb.org/intro-dacb-web_files/frame.htm
d. DACB Staff, board, partners:
Project Director and Project
Manager: http://www.dacb.org/jonbio.htm
Assistant: http://www.dacb.org/jonbio.htm
Advisory council :
http://www.dacb.org/advisors.html
Financial supporters/donors:
http://www.dacb.org/dacbpartners.htm
e. People who write biographies for the DACB:
Project Luke scholars: http://www.dacb.org/plfellows.htm
Participating Institutions:
http://www.dacb.org/particip_instit.html
Independent scholars and lay writers:
http://www.dacb.org/authors.html
2. For returning visitors and regular affiliates of the
project:
a. What's new: http://www.dacb.org/what-is-new.html
b. Our newsletters: http://www.dacb.org/newsletter.html
c. The latest stories uploaded to the site: http://www.dacb.org/newstories.html
3. For readers, stories are organized in many different
indexes :
a. Stories recently added to the site:
http://www.dacb.org/newstories.html
b. The Africa map (click on a country to get a country index):
http://www.dacb.org/stories/dacbmap.html
c. All Subjects: a comprehensive list of stories:
http://www.dacb.org/stories/all%20subjects.html
d. Map of Ancient Africa (click on a region):
http://www.dacb.org/stories/ancient-africa.html
e. Ancient church (up to 650 A.D.): http://www.dacb.org/stories/ancientchristw.html
f. Women: http://www.dacb.org/stories/women-index.html
g. Non Africans (who never set foot in Africa): http://www.dacb.org/stories/non%20africans/nonafricans.html
h. Stories by independent authors: http://www.dacb.org/authors.html
i. Stories by Project Luke Scholars (link next to each PL
scholar): http://www.dacb.org/plfellows.htm
j. Stories submitted by Participating Institutions:
http://www.dacb.org/partic-instit_stories.html
k. Stories by church affiliation: http://www.dacb.org/churches.html
l. Stories by country: click on the drop down menu in the sidebar
m. Stories with photos: http://www.dacb.org/stories/photo-index.html
4. Various resources and research tools DACB offers:
a. Index of online resources or regional histories
of Africa: http://www.dacb.org/history/histories.htm
b. Stories organized by church affiliation: http://www.dacb.org/churches.html
c. Official languages of Africa: http://www.dacb.org/languages.html
d. Regions of Africa: http://www.dacb.org/regions.html
e. Link to video resources: http://www.dacb.org/video-info.html
f. Our links page: http://www.dacb.org/links.html
5. Additional resources for researchers and writers:
a. Our guidelines: http://www.dacb.org/guidelines-writers.html
b. Our Instructional Manual: http://www.dacb.org/FinalInstrManual.pdf
c. For archivists and librarians: http://www.dacb.org/ArchivesManual-English.pdf
d. Resources index, including oral history materials: http://www.dacb.org/resources.html
e. Training resources (index): http://www.dacb.org/training.html
f. Potential subjects indexes (listing of suggested names
of individuals whose biographies should be written): http://www.dacb.org/stories/potential%20subjects/potsubj_index.html
Complete bibliography of references
from potential subjects pages (current works on African Christian
history): http://www.dacb.org/stories/potential%20subjects/references.html
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