Sustaining and Preserving Digital Projects

I’d like to have a conversation about how we plan for the future of digital humanities projects, especially the web-based components presenting contextualized data. I’m concerned about sustainability when we lose so many on-line resources each year. How can we build a reliable scholarly body of digital work when we risk losing the foundations?

My own work is focused on building a platform that allows reliable citation: citations that point to a given version of a resource, that reproduce that version of the resource, and do so for a long time.

I’d also love to demonstrate and discuss the code I’ve been working on.

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About James

My education consists of a B.S. in math and physics and a M.A. in English, creative writing. I've been a web application developer and UNIX system administrator since '97 and the Software Architect for MITH since January, 2011. Besides writing novels and playing with LPMUDs, I'm trying to find ways to preserve and curate 'algorithmic cultural objects,' those types of digital humanities projects that digital libraries don't want to touch because they are more than a collection of static assets.