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Managing a Digital Project
Digital Humanities NetworkCRASSH
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Facilitators•Helen Webster, Digital Transferable
Skills project
•Chris Martin, CARET
•Jen Pollard, Computer Officer, English
•(with input from Anna Collins, DSpace@Cambridge)
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Aims
•to highlight the differences between project managing traditional print-based outputs and digital artefacts.
•to raise the questions and issues that arise at each stage
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What kind of Digital Project are you interested in creating?
Timeline: stick a post-it with
• Your name
•Type of project
•Title of your project
to indicate where on the timeline you feel you currently are:
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TaxonomyTypes of digital project:
Primary (original sources)
•online databases
•digitised materials
•digital editions
Secondary (academic output)
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Why Digital?If you’re applying for funding to create a digital artefact, you will need to make a solid case justifying why it needs to be digital.
Thinking about your proposed project, how would you answer the questions on the handout in a proposal?
Designing
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Who is your user?•Swap project descriptions (page
one of handout).
•Read the new project description and analyse who the user might be.
•Return the project to its owner and discuss their own intended audience for it.
Designing
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When is a digital project ‘finished’?
On a Post-it:
your definition of the point at which a digital project is
‘finished’
Finishing
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Future-proofing•sustainability
•stability
•marketing
•evaluation
•lifespan
Finishing
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Job Spec•What skills, knowledge and
experience are needed to complete your project?
•Which of these do you have?
•Which could you acquire?
•Which might you outsource to collaborators?
Making
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Collaborators
•At what points do you need to bring collaborators in, and to do what?
•Who might your collaborators be?
•What information and motivation will they need to work with you?
Making
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Digital Humanities and your Career
•What skills will you gain from working on this project?
•How limited or transferable are they? Will they date? How will you continue to develop them?
•Where might you seek work, with this skill set? What might that career progression look like?
You
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Further links•Digital Humanities Network,
Cambridge
•CARET
•DSpace@Cambridge
•Faculty Computer Officer
•#Alt-Ac