Folks-- A survey that might be of interest to this audience. --- A. Soroka Digital Research and Scholarship R & D the University of Virginia Library Begin forwarded message: > From: Bethany Nowviskie <[log in to unmask]> > Date: July 13, 2009 5:14:17 PM EDT > Subject: project management survey: "Graceful Degradation" > > Together with Dot Porter of the Royal Irish Academy, I'm undertaking a > survey of project management attitudes and practices in the digital > humanities community. The survey is called "Graceful Degradation: > Managing Digital Humanities Projects in Times of Transition and > Decline" and is online here: > > http://graceful-degradation.questionpro.com/ > > We're paying particular attention to projects that have weathered > transitional phases or have entered some kind of afterlife, but need > responses from people engaged in projects at all stages of > development. We also seek responses not only from scholars and PIs, > but from collaborators of all sorts, from all sectors of the academy > and beyond. We're defining "digital humanities project" very broadly, > so that digitization and digital library projects, and IT > infrastructure-building in support of the arts, humanities, and social > sciences can be included along with editorial, tool-building, and > interpretive scholarly work. > > Our goal is to share some clear data and collective wisdom on the > causes and outcomes of transitional phases in digital projects, and to > understand what "decline" means and why it happens in a shifting > landscape of scholarship and sustainability. Can we offer tips on > avoiding disaster? or, failing that, substantiate what John Unsworth > called the "importance of failure?" > > We also want to break the taboo on talking about projects that have > gone sour! > > This work builds on panel discussions and papers at Digital Humanities > '08 and '09, some of which have recently appeared in a special issue > ("Done") in DHQ: http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ Our results will > be first presented at DRHA in Belfast and MLA in Philly. > > All responses are confidential and anonymous unless you explicitly > give us permission to contact you. > > Please contribute! > > http://graceful-degradation.questionpro.com/ > > -- Bethany > > Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D > Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library > Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute > http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/ >