JP emailed about a history of Victoria Chinatown project and his wish to have HCMC involved. I gave him the general terms and procedure for HCMC involvement and boilerplate text on who we are and what we do.

UVic's Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) is a department within the faculty of Humanities. The mandate of the HCMC is to further research, teaching and learning in the faculty of Humanities, in particular the fields of Humanities Computing and Language Learning, and those aspects of other fields of research involving audio, video or computing technology. We host a research and development office staffed with three full-time software developers which designs and creates web applications, websites, on-line databases, and application programs in collaboration with faculty members. We manage a research facility with bookable computers shared amongst all members of the faculty. Projects proposing to include the HCMC go through an internal process to determine formally the commitments of HCMC labour and resources to that proposal. The HCMC has an international reputation for the quality and range of its work, and its staff publish and present at peer-reviewed conferences interna