Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 241. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Cologne Hosted by DH-Cologne www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org Date: 2021-09-15 15:51:41+00:00 From: John Wall <jnwall@ncsu.edu> Subject: Institutional Support for DH Websites? I would like to know from folks on this list who are working on digital humanities projects that result in websites what sort of support they are getting from their institutional libraries for maintaining their websites once the projects are done. My university’s library says they will archive files created as part of the project and they will archive a snapshot of the websites, but they will not support keeping the websites live by housing them on their servers. This means that the websites for my project, which was supported by 2 NEH DH grants and represents over 15 years of work by a team of nearly a hundred people, now live on because my department head is willing to pay rent for them on a university server. But she tells me she will retire in a couple of years and that she cannot guarantee that her successor will continue to be supportive. So all that work may cease to be available in two years. This seems to me to represent a refusal on our library’s part to meet one of their basic missions, which is the acquisition, conservation, and dissemination of knowledge. They spend millions of dollars building large buildings to house books, installing shelves to store them and air quality systems to preserve them, and creating systems for retrieving and making them available to users. But they are not willing to develop systems to maintain websites. I would like to know what experiences you folks are having in this area. If you are curious, all our work is now available through this umbrella site: https://virtualdonne.chass.ncsu.edu/ JNW -- *John N. Wall* Professor of English Literature NC State University Principal Investigator for The Virtual St Paul's Cathedral Project https://vpcathedral.chass.ncsu.edu/ The Virtual Paul's Cross Project https://vpcross.chass.ncsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist@dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php