Dear All,
You are cordially invited to join us for our second “Nuts and Bolts of Digital Humanities” talk of the year. Inba Kehoe, Ken Cooley, John Durno, and Paul Stokes will be joining us to discuss “Why the Library Won’t Archive Your DH Project.” We’ll talk about preservation, copyright, maintenance and more!
What: “Why the Library Won’t Archive your DH Project”
Who: Inba Kehoe — Copyright Officer and Scholarly Communications/Publishing Librarian
Ken Cooley – Associate University Librarian, Reference and Collection Management Services
John Durno – Head, UVic Library Systems
Paul Stokes – Chief Information Officer, University of Victoria
When: Wednesday 21 Nov, 4:00-5:00
Where: University Club Members’ Lounge, UVic
An outline of some of the possible points of discussion follows.
I hope to see you there!
Laura
Dr. Laura Estill
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Electronic Textual Cultures Lab
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
University of Victoria
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Tentative outline:
Challenges
Technical
– What do we mean by preservation?
o Structure
o Versioning
o Including metadata
– What do we mean by access to the preserved project?
o Is it a fully functioning system?
– How do we keep the technologies used for each project moving forward?
o Updating technology
o Emulated platforms, etc.
o Browser versions
Cost for maintaining project(s)
– Standardization/non-standardization considerations for projects that are maintained
– What level of support would be required?
– How large/small are the projects – to determine storage costs?
Administration of preservation projects
– How do we decide which projects is preserved
o What criteria is used
o Who makes the decision?
o Do we setup a proposal submission process
o Funding for the project?
§ Does the department cost share on the project?
o IP/copyright issues
§ How should these be handled?
o When does the library take on a project
§ Preferable from the initial project start to make sure that all the technical/costs and administrative pieces are addressed.