Community-Centered Strategies for Sustaining Digital Humanities Scholarship

Fenlon, Katrina; Grimmer, Jessica; Reza, Alia; Thurston, Courtnie; Wagner, Travis L.

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“…Figure 1 offers an abstract view of how communities surround the core teams involved in each case. This is a rough and generalized depiction, derived from more detailed and case-specific illustrations offered in Fenlon et al, 2022. The goal is to illustrate how different types of communities radiate outward in metaphorical distance, or level of active involvement, from the center of each project.…”

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“…Here we briefly characterize the core teams and communities involved in degrees. A fuller description of the communities in each case and the relationships among them is available in Fenlon et al, 2022.…”

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“…Each of these resources are created by relatively small core teams, but these teams and the resources themselves are surrounded, supported, used, and sustained by wider communities as well, which range from local communities to networks of collaborative research or groups joined around shared digital methodologies. Through this research, we have identified a framework of factors in the community-centered sustainability of digital humanities projects, including digital community archives (Fenlon et al, 2022). This paper reports on select findings of this study, specifically related to one factor: the mutual relationship between the sustainability of digital knowledge infrastructures and the sustainability of the communities that create and maintain them.…”

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Mutual Sustainability among Communities and Their Knowledge Infrastructures

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et al. 2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Digital, community‐based knowledge infrastructures confront complex, systemic challenges to their sustainability over time. From digital community archives to computationally amenable corpora, databases, or data models created by and serving research communities, these sites of grassroots knowledge production tend to be maintained without long‐term institutional commitments. Yet, they hold unique cultural evidence of enormous value. Prior work on the sustainability of digital humanities scholarship has surfaced numerous factors in project sustainability, including technical, organizational, and financial concerns. The roles of communities themselves in sustaining community‐based knowledge infrastructures, however, are under‐studied. This qualitative, multi‐case study of digital humanities projects and digital community archives addresses community‐centered approaches to understanding and implementing sustainability for digital knowledge infrastructures. This study finds that communities of various kinds—from public communities to networks of research practice—conceive of the sustainability of their digital projects as inextricably linked to the sustainability of communities themselves. We offer an exploration of factors in the mutual relationship of sustainability between communities and their knowledge infrastructures, including how they support the wellbeing of individuals and cohesion among communities, and how they promote activism and advocacy efforts within broader publics and disciplinary cultures.

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