Comments on: Building and designing projects for long term preservation http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/17/building-and-designing-projects-for-long-term-preservation/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Hugh Cayless http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/17/building-and-designing-projects-for-long-term-preservation/#comment-150 Thu, 20 May 2010 01:09:11 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=231#comment-150 I think this is very important stuff. A few more ideas: plan for projects to expose their data in detachable, downloadable chunks (e.g. each record serialized as XML or HTML); choose well-documented formats; make dynamic functions modular and make as much of the project static as possible; document intention and editorial practices/conventions, even if not code (your code may well be tossed in the bin anyway, but your successors will want to know what you were aiming for).

]]> By: Ronda Grizzle http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/17/building-and-designing-projects-for-long-term-preservation/#comment-148 Tue, 18 May 2010 01:26:34 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=231#comment-148 I just posted Karin. I’m excited that other folks want to talk about documentation as it relates to sustainability and project life cycle.

Oh, and you can borrow my communications goddess tiara anytime you need it. 😀

]]> By: THATCamp 2010 » Blog Archive http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/17/building-and-designing-projects-for-long-term-preservation/#comment-149 Tue, 18 May 2010 00:23:33 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=231#comment-149 […] Megan Brett and I’m particularly curious for any suggestions from Chad Black, Priya Chhaya, Karin Dalziel, and Matt […]

]]> By: THATCamp 2010 » Blog Archive http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/17/building-and-designing-projects-for-long-term-preservation/#comment-147 Mon, 17 May 2010 21:20:34 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=231#comment-147 […] related to:  karindalziel’s  session proposal […]

]]> By: karindalziel http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/17/building-and-designing-projects-for-long-term-preservation/#comment-146 Mon, 17 May 2010 16:20:00 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=231#comment-146 Bethany – thanks for mentioning Rhonda Grizzle’s proposal, I’ll watch out for it.

I think the CDRH really needs to get a communications goddess on staff. 🙂

]]> By: Bethany Nowviskie http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/17/building-and-designing-projects-for-long-term-preservation/#comment-145 Mon, 17 May 2010 16:11:14 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=231#comment-145 Hey, Karin — there might be some commonalities between what you’re proposing and what Ronda Grizzle of the Scholars’ Lab would like to discuss. (I think she’ll be posting about her session later today or tomorrow.) Ronda is our communications goddess, and she spends a lot of time thinking about good documentation and how to encourage it — especially in the digital humanities context, where you’re working with heterogeneous groups.

And thanks for mentioning Graceful Degradation. Dot Porter and I will be presenting on that this summer at DH 2010. For what it’s worth — we’re hopeful our analysis of projects that experienced periods of transition and decline can lead to exactly what you’re talking about: better work up front to prepare, and better understanding of the factors that prevent projects from weathering those periods well — whether that means surviving as living projects or concluding gracefully and “preservably.”

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