Not Sure Where to Start Your Planning?  Check Out These Resources!

DevDH.org - Development for the Digital Humanities

Developed by Jennifer Guiliano and Simon Appleford, with contributions from many others, this site provides a series of lectures that cover different stages of a project, including translating research questions into digital projects, teams and partners, publicity, budgets, and more. 

The Socio-Technical Sustainability Roadmap 

The STSR is housed in the Visual Media Workshop at University of Pittsburgh and is a "structured group exercise that guides participants through the process of creating effective sustainability plans" for digital projects.  It is designed as a series of modules that help project teams plan and create social and technical infrastructure that will ensure the sustainability and preservation of digital work.  The Roadmap is being used in Sustaining DH: An NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities in 2018/2019.  

PM4DH: Project Management for the Digital Humanities

The PM4DH is a guide to project management developed by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.  It is organized into five phases: proposal, initiation, planning, execution, and closing.  The "Create a Workplan" section under the Execution phase includes a variety of templates that can be used to document project risks, issues, communication plans, meeting summaries, and more.

Ethical & Social Justice Considerations

Working in the digital and public realm has raised new ethical considerations for humanities research and collaboration.  The resources below are not comprehensive, but they introduce a range of issues to contemplate when starting a project. 

• Roopika Risam, Justin Snow, and Susan Edwards. "Building an Ethical Digital Humanities Community: Librarian: Faculty, and Student Collaboration." Library Faculty Publications, 2017.
• Haley Di Pressi et al. "A Student Collaborators' Bill of Rights," UCLA HumTech, June 8, 2015.
• Kimberly Christen. "On Not Looking: Ethics and Access in the Digital Humanities." 
• Kimberly Christen. "Relationships, Not Records: Digital Heritage and the Ethics of Sharing Indigenous Knowledge Online." In Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, edited by Jentery Sayers, 403-412. New York: Routledge, 2018.
• Lorena Gauthereau. "Decolonizing the Digital Humanities." Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Blog, November 20, 2017.
• Roopika Risam, micha cárdenas, et al. Social Justice and Digital Humanities.