APPLICATIONS OPEN!
Five
Solutions to What?
Historical scholarship is
increasingly digital; and yet we do not have an agreed form of best practices
for ensuring that digital scholarship lasts. Five Solutions is looking for five scholars able to outline a
solution to the issues of sustainability now facing historians. This one day
workshop asks participants to give a 15 minute
presentation outlining practical solutions to one of five challenges, with the
resources and expertise of an ordinary working historian in mind. These presentations will form the basis
for a one day workshop on practical strategies for digital sustainability. The presentations can be based on your
own experience and ideas, or can be taken on as a research project. We will
work with all participants to ensure that the final presentations are both
technically workable and illustrated with the most appropriate datasets.
Accepted participants will
each receive a £350 honorarium.*
The
Five Themes
The following five themes are
designed to get you started, but if you have other ideas, we’d love to hear
about it. Each theme should be approached with the ordinary working historian
in mind.
1. Preserving
research data for the future
2. Curating an enduring
professional online persona
3. Paying project
costs after the money runs out
4. Capturing and
documenting the expertise of temporary staff
5. Strategies for
working together on larger projects
Who
Should Apply?
We’re looking for people
with passion. Scholars old or young, university students of any level,
librarians, archivists, developers, designers, system administrators, or anyone
who considers themselves a historian at heart. No specific qualifications or
prior experience required - just an interest in helping academia find solutions
to organizational and technological challenges facing the sustainability of our
digital projects.
What
do I have to do?
Figure out a solution, of
course! Once you’ve come up with your solution, you’ll share your work in two
ways:
1. A 15-minute
presentation of your solution at a one-day conference in London, UK on the 28th of November 2013 at the
Institute of Historical Research.
2. A 1500-2000 word peer-reviewed
tutorial outlining your solution to be published in the spring of 2014 in the Programming
Historian 2 and distributed as part of ‘IHR Digital’.
All tutorials will be
peer-reviewed and released under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. Participants
will have the full support of an editor at the Programming Historian 2 who will provide guidance for writing an
effective, practical tutorial.
Evidence of previous work
with technical writing or a willingness to learn, as well as a strong command
of the English language are a bonus.
How
do I apply?
By 8 October 2013 send a
two-page C.V. and a brief email to adam.crymble@kcl.ac.uk (subject line: Five
Solutions) addressing the following questions:
1. What theme would
you like to tackle? (Use one of our suggestions or come up with your own.)
2. Give us an idea
of how you plan to solve this issue, or where you intend to look for a solution
(max 200 words)
3. What skills or
experiences make you the ideal person for the task?
We apologize in advance, but we are limited to five scholars.
* Our funding restrictions allow honorariums for UK-based participants
only, though we are happy to receive applications from those abroad who have
access to their own travel funding and who would like to participate.
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