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Managing 100 digital humanities projects: digital scholarship & archiving in King’s Digital Lab
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posted on 2023-06-09, 18:35 authored by James Smithies, Carina Westling, Anna Maria Sichani, Pamela Mellen, Arianna CiulaDuring the 2016–2017 financial year, King's Digital Lab (King's College London) undertook an extensive archiving and sustainability project to ensure the ongoing management, security, and sustainability of ~100 digital humanities projects, produced over a twenty-year period. Many of these projects, including seminal publications such as Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Henry III Fine Rolls, Jonathan Swift Archive, Jane Austen Manuscripts, The Gascon Rolls, The Gough Map, and Inquisitions Post Mortem, occupy important positions in the history of digital humanities. Of the projects inherited by the lab, about half are either of exceptionally high quality or seminal in other ways but almost all of them struggled with funding and technical issues that threatened their survival. By taking a holistic approach to infrastructure, and software engineering and maintenance, the lab has resolved the majority of the issues and secured the short to medium term future of the projects in its care. This article details the conceptual, procedural, and technical approaches used to achieve that, and offers policy recommendations to prevent repetition of the situation in the future.
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Digital Humanities QuarterlyISSN
1938-4122Publisher
Alliance of Digital HumanitiesIssue
1Volume
13Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
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2019-08-07Usage metrics
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