Digital Project Preservation Plan: A Guide for Preserving Digital Humanities / Scholarship Projects

Abstract

A Digital Project Preservation Plan is designed to help with organizing preservation efforts for digital projects. Initially drafted as a companion guide meant to fill the gap on best methods for preserving digital scholarship or digital humanities projects, it can also be applied to digital projects outside the humanities. This preservation plan is most beneficial to those digital humanities (DH) project creators who need guidance on how to start a digital project with preservation in mind. Although the DH community has shared resources and case studies, the examples available tend to focus on DH development, and less on DH preservation. These resources are also located in disparate locations. The Digital Project Preservation Plan is a singular guide, focusing on DH preservation, as a starting point with references to more resources and related DH practices. This is a working document, available to practitioners in whole or part; ideally, it will be used in the early stages of project planning and consulted and revised regularly. The preservation infrastructure should be designed and built as a collaborative effort from the beginning of the project. As priorities, methods and technologies change, the preservation plan will need to be updated and modified accordingly.

The Digital Project Preservation Plan will be made freely available as an open educational resource (OER) on the Web for scholars to use as a resource, in whole or in part. Terms of use are CC-BY-NC and apply as follows: (1) To the full plan, as a guide/instructions with appendices/templates, available in PDF; (2) To the individual appendices, available as separate documents for ease of access and selection. When downloaded, they are available as fillable PDF templates.

SUGGESTED CITATION: Miller, A. (2019). Digital Project Preservation Plan: A Guide for Preserving Digital Humanities / Scholarship Projects. Available at https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/5761.