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From: Sebastiaan Verweij <sv302(a)cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:14 AM
***'Sustaining Digital Resources in the Humanities'***
Monday 6 July 2009
Faculty of English, Cambridge
Sustainability informs the conception and the construction of online
manuscript research; it is widely agreed (by funding bodies and those
involved in online work) that online resources should be made
sustainable. This requirement demands co-operation between faculties
and universities, between libraries and archives, between academic and
technical staff, but often exposes different understandings of what
sustainability means, and how it can best be achieved in the short and
long terms.
This one-day symposium will bring together experts from manuscript study
and digital research, from libraries, digital repositories and
humanities IT, for collaborative discussion of sustainability in its
various contexts. We aim to raise and discuss the issues involved not
only in the technical sustainability of online resources, but also in
their academic sustainability - how they can be adapted in the light
of later scholarship and research.
How can and should we incorporate sustainability issues into the
design and construction of academic or research-related resources? How
do we plan and create resources not only technically durable, but
intellectually durable? What are the factors, academic and
technological, affecting the sustainability of new electronic
resources? How can resources grow and develop after their periods of
design and funding have ended? Are there strategies that allow for
their development, as well as their maintenance? What developments in
online manuscript research, or in IT, should we anticipate in planning
for the sustainability, and the future, of our resources?
Anyone wishing to attend, or with any questions about the symposium,
should contact Angus Vine (aev21(a)cam.ac.uk).
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Dr Sebastiaan Verweij
Research Associate
Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online
http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk
Faculty of English
9 West Road
Cambridge
e-mail: sv302(a)cam.ac.uk