Laura Estill, Legacy technologies and digital futures
In this chapter, the author discusses the exigence for thinking about long-term project planning. She deals with World Shakespeare Bibliography update as a case study. The author outlines some general principles for long-term project planning. Liz Grumbach, who was at that time with Texas A\&M’s Initiative for Digital Humanities, and Culture, managed to get all of our data out of PC-File and into a hot new technology a spreadsheet. Writing evaluative or analytic arguments about the resources in a given field is important work. The WSB is a joint production of Texas A\&M University, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Oxford University Press. Survival for digital projects is an issue: a big, important, and looming issue. As Robin Camille Davis reports, 45\% of projects discussed at DH 2005 are no longer available; that is to say, almost half of the digital projects that were robust enough to be presented at an international digital humanities conference were lost just ten years later.
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