This group will focus on the ongoing sustainability needs of digital humanities projects.
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Sarah Middle deposited Survey: Using Digital Tools and Resources for Ancient World Research in the group
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week agoMy CHASE-funded PhD in Classical Studies at the Open University, in which this survey played a crucial role, investigated Linked Ancient World Data usability. The survey took place during April-May 2018 and was aimed at anyone involved in Ancient World research, with any level of digital expertise. Questions related to participants’ experiences of…[Read more]
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Roxanne Shirazi deposited Documenting Digital Projects: Instituting Guidelines for Digital Dissertations and Theses in the Humanities in the group
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoDissertations and theses with interactive digital components seldom fit neatly into the institutional format requirements designed for traditional humanities texts. This creates challenges for students, administrators, and librarians who are charged with preparing these works for library deposit. While disciplinary acceptance of digital…[Read more]
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Maria Papadopoulou deposited Digital Humanities Doctoral Seminar (online): 3-4 August / 3-4 September, 2020 in the group
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDue to the great interest for the first two sessions of the Digital Humanities Doctoral Seminar, we are very happy to announce two new online sessions on August 3rd & 4th and on September 3rd & 4th. This doctoral seminar is an introduction to Digital Humanities defined as the application of methods and tools from Information and Communication…[Read more]
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Laura Horak deposited Transgender Media Portal Usability Test Report 2020 in the group
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis report is intended as a guide to facilitate the development of the Transgender Media Portal (transgendermediaportal.org). The Transgender Media Portal aims to make audiovisual work by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people more available to artists, activists, festival programmers, researchers, instructors,…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited Building Digital Archives as We Fight: ASA 2019 panel abstract in the group
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoBuilding Digital Archives as We Fight, a panel sponsored by the Digital Humanities Caucus of the American Studies Association, will consider the affordances and challenges of building digital archives, as well as the ethical dimensions of using emerging technologies that affect the process and pace of digital archiving. Drawing on firsthand…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited Being Human in Digital Humanities Project Management- MLA 2020 panel abstract in the group
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis panel will consider the changing landscape of research support for digitally-inflected scholarship in higher education through the lens of digital humanities project management. Digital humanists acting as project managers must continually adapt their practices in response to shifting institutional priorities and concomitant changes in the…[Read more]
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Chelsea Gunn replied to the topic Call for Participation in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoApplications for our Brigham Young University institute are due on April 11! More information is available here: https://sites.haa.pitt.edu/sustainabilityinstitute/brigham-young-university/. Join us in Provo! And if you have any questions, feel free to pop over to our Virtual Office Hours thread!
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Aisling Quigley replied to the topic Call for Participation in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoAs a reminder, the deadline for applications to the Georgia Tech institute is next Thursday, December 13th. More information is available here: https://sites.haa.pitt.edu/sustainabilityinstitute/georgia-institute-of-technology/.
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Aisling Quigley replied to the topic Virtual Office Hours in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoFYI there will not be Virtual Office Hours on December 11th as we will be in the midst of facilitating the NEH institute at the University of Pittsburgh! Also, we will be on winter recess from December 15th to January 7th, so will not have Office Hours during that period but are available for urgent questions at vmwshop@pitt.edu !
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Aisling Quigley replied to the topic Virtual Office Hours in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoSounds good! Thanks!
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Anne Mitchell Whisnant replied to the topic Virtual Office Hours in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoOriginal project manager in the now defunct former library unit that hosted this has retired! One of our issues is that personnel have turned over and institutional structures have changed. That said, I do believe that the UNC Library is committed to keeping the project going. I will check with my colleagues there about interest in / usefulness of…[Read more]
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Aisling Quigley replied to the topic Virtual Office Hours in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi Anne. I believe it would be appropriate for you and a partner from the UNC Library to apply so long as Chapel Hill is in agreement with this, as they are still the project’s stewards. Who was the original project manager?
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Anne Mitchell Whisnant replied to the topic Virtual Office Hours in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi Aisling, great. My question is this: I am interested in the Sustaining DH workshop at GT, but am not sure if my situation is appropriate to consider applying. I am scholarly advisor for a digital project that launched (supported by the UNC Libraries at Chapel Hill) in 2011 (digital Blue Ridge Parkway). When the project was launched, I was also…[Read more]
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Aisling Quigley replied to the topic Virtual Office Hours in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoI am here or on Slack! Apologies for the delay!
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Anne Mitchell Whisnant replied to the topic Virtual Office Hours in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi, is anyone out there for the “virtual office hours”? I have a query about the Georgia Tech institute! Can also move to Slack if that’s better.
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Aisling Quigley started the topic Call for Participation in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoApplications for our Georgia Tech institute are due on December 13th. More information is available here: https://sites.haa.pitt.edu/sustainabilityinstitute/georgia-institute-of-technology/ Come join us in Atlanta!
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Aisling Quigley replied to the topic Readings & Resources in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoA short reading for you from Pamela Fox. It is called “The Funeral of Dead Projects” (https://medium.com/@pamelafox/the-funeral-of-dead-projects-8fc9911bff00) and encourages us to say goodbye to projects.
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Aisling Quigley replied to the topic Readings & Resources in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDigital Preservation Coalition or (https://www.dpconline.org/). In 2015, the DPC published an easily-accessible Digital Preservation Handbook. We recommend that you start with “Why Digital Preservation Matters” http://www.dpconline.org/handbook/digital-preservation/why-digital-preservation-matters.
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Aisling Quigley replied to the topic Virtual Office Hours in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoIf you prefer Slack, I am also on the Digital Humanities Slack in the “sustaining” channel (https://digitalhumanities.slack.com/messages/C3XJB8WR4/). Not a part of the Digital Humanities Slack? Fill out this form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdixlWvNtl2zrrodX9YzP4OmQ0xk5AwPEGZ0qxvlg9nbRReMw/viewform) to join!
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Aisling Quigley replied to the topic Readings & Resources in the discussion
Sustaining Digital Projects on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoCohen, Daniel H. and Roy Rosenzweig.”Preserving Digital History,” Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/preserving/.
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