Hi All,
I've been reading posts from this list for a while but haven't posted before. My name is Katie Hannan, hello! I'm a data librarian, online projects person, in Adelaide, South Australia and I'm currently working as a time-share data librarian at Flinders University, Education, Humanities and Law Faculty and eResearch SA http://www.ersa.edu.au/.
I'm interested to hear from anyone who has a promotional strategy for their Digital Humanities projects. Do you build it and hope that they will come? Do you build it, promote it and then shove it in a corner and forget about it when the next lot of grant funding comes through? Do you have any reporting requirements for operational DH sites or any requirement to monitor access and use?
I am working on some project documentation for some new DH projects, but when I moved into this role I inherited some DH projects that are now in operational stage. They're just ticking along nicely in the background, but may need some system upgrades in the future, but the grant money is long finished.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on what happens when the grant money runs out, the project is launched and then....? What happens when the software doesn't work as well as it should? When there's security holes in older versions of content management systems.
Thanks!
Katie