- Supporting other people’s DH projects with Meg
- At times its hard to stay connected with other projects because of the size of a university
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- What do you do when there are a diversity of documents when they are in a wide array of languages?
- How, as a librarian, can she help support other projects?
- Reaching out to other projects
- There is an interest in how information is dispersed without going to things outside your work
- WE NEED A DIGITAL HUMANITIES “RIDE BOARD”
- Postings asking other to contribute to their projects
- Libraries are not the best way of doing this
- What is the genesis of something like this?
- What should be recorded
- Skill level
- Type of project
- What do we want?
- Inclusiveness and accessibility
- Needs to be open to people who aren’t just digital humanists too
- Need to look OUTSIDE of academia
- Not everyone feels welcome in academia
- Needs to project based and goal based
- Who will maintain the repository of information?
- People are enthusiastic but its up to the professional groups who will maintain it
- Responsibility of the organization to foster the idea
- Who will be the person who funds this?
- People are enthusiastic but its up to the professional groups who will maintain it
- Could it be “service” to the profession?
- Problem: work can be seen as service only and not research
- People don’t want to invest the time unless it will benefit their career
- Puzzle between getting funding, sustaining it all, getting the people to contribute
- A lot of responsibility to be in charge of digital projects because of the migration element
- Maintenance of the site is the most important thing to think about
- DH commons
- Developed out of a THATCamp (list of projects and collaborators)
- About collaboration availability
- How do you ensure meaningful participation
- Marketing and evaluation
- Google analytics is a way to do this
- Funding
- Kickstarter
- Not like grant money from an institution that is exempt from taxes
- Local historical associations
- Successful at getting grants (considering they still exist)
- Libraries may be helpful for this (great resource!)
- Universities and academia are having problems because there is a need for marketing but academia is against it
- Kickstarter
- How are projects found?
- Marketing and outreach is needed on the creators part to get the word out
- Most useful is stepping out of your fields/institutions/cultures/etc
- The best way to support other projects is to find out about them!!
- But the ability to do serendipitous finding of programs is very difficult
- Database for projects
- Database that remains static is needed
- ORCID (project)
- Similar to DOI
- There would be too many dead links
- Someone would need to be responsible for maintaining it
- Academics are overworked and don’t have time
- Need to create meaningful and ongoing engagement
- Engagement is based on interest and passion
- Who would partake in this project?
- Grad students?
- Have it be required for class?
- Who will review their postings?
- Have it be required for class?
- Grad students?
- Academics are overworked and don’t have time
- ORCID (project)
- Database that remains static is needed
- Marketing and evaluation
- How do you ensure meaningful participation
- About collaboration availability
- Developed out of a THATCamp (list of projects and collaborators)
- Inclusiveness and accessibility
- Libraries are not the best way of doing this
- Postings asking other to contribute to their projects
