RT: Gone Too Soon: Sunsetting and Transitioning Digital Projects (sponsored by the Digital Humanities Caucus) [ID 96]

When a digital humanities project can no longer continue to live sustainably in its current form, what happens next? While we can attempt to build in features of longevity from a project’s conception, and initiate protocols of preservation at any point in the life of a digital work, not all projects have the privilege of this kind of foresight. This panel seeks examples of the often ad-hoc (and perhaps especially triage) decommissioning of DH work, working towards a discussion of methodologies and workflows that were successful, or not, in projects that required either complete sunsetting, or the transitioning of a project into a wholly different format (digital or otherwise).
Keywords: Digital Humanities, Editing, Labor/Business, Archives

55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
https://asecs.org/meetings/asecs-2025-annual-meeting/

Session Chair: Talia Perry, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, talia.perry@gmail.com (feel free to email with questions, but please submit abstracts via the meeting portal - https://na.eventscloud.com/eSites/800587/Homepage)

Submit 250-word abstracts for review, DEADLINE EXTENDED to Wednesday Oct. 2, 2024
Virtual conference, session weekend of March 28-29