Digital Humanities: Preservation and Sustainability

Digital humanities projects tend to be a collection of complex digital objects. Comprehensively digitally preserving such projects is challenging because there are many moving parts, and no two projects are the same so developing effective workflows is contextual. For more information on digital preservation, see the Digital Preservation LibGuide created by the VT Library.

• Owens, Trevor. (19 Mar 2014). Digital Preservation's Place in the Future of the Digital Humanities. Personal blog.
• Samberg, R. and Reardon, S. Digital Humanities for Tomorrow: Opening the Conversation about DH Project Preservation. Digital Humanities at Berkeley.
• Thiede, M. (17 May 2017). Preservation in Practice: A Survey of New York City Digital Humanities Researchers. In the Library with the Lead Pipe.
• Webb, Sharon. (07 Oct 2015). Requirements and National Digital Infrastructures: Digital Preservation in the Humanities. Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies.

Digital humanities projects often have significant support during project creation, but suffer from a lack of sustainability. The issue of who takes responsibility for maintaining projects is an ongoing issue in the community.

• DH at Berkley. Project Sustainability in DH: Collaboration and Community.
• Sustaining DH: An NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
• Maron, N. L., & Pickle, S. (18 June 2014). Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host Institution Support Beyond the Start-up Phase. Ithaka S+R. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.22548