Inviting participants for the 2022 Graceful Degradation Survey

[Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina]

Graceful Degradation: Managing Digital Projects Through Times of Transition and Decline

If you work with digital humanities projects, please consider taking this survey. Intended participants include faculty, staff, librarians, advanced student researchers, and others in humanities disciplines who have been involved in the creation and management of digital tools for studying the arts, literature, music, dance, or performance.

The purpose of this research is to survey those who work on digital humanities projects in order to learn how many digital humanities projects decline, expire, or disappear, and another goal is to assess how it feels to do this work in the awareness of its tenuousness. This work builds on the 2010 Graceful Degradation Survey conducted by Bethany Nowviskie (Dean of Libraries and Professor of English at James Madison University) and Dot Porter (Curator of Digital Research Services at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania). We plan to look at the results of both surveys to see if new trends have emerged in the intervening decade.

This survey will give a better sense of how digital humanities scholars cope with projects that decline in the face of advancing technologies. Of particular interest is how many projects do decline, how quickly they decline, and primary reasons for decline. Of course, it will also be useful to know how many projects have been able to sustain themselves for longer periods and how that longevity was achieved.

The survey link is here: https://nccu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6sV1HeAp7RJe8F8

Graceful Degradation Survey | Qualtrics The purpose of this research is to survey those who work on digital humanities projects in order to learn how many digital humanities projects decline, expire, or disappear, and another goal is to assess how it feels to do this work in the awareness of its tenuousness. nccu.co1.qualtrics.com

Please share widely. Thank you so much!

Kathryn C. Wymer

Professor of English, Department of Language and Literature

North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC 27707

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