http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-some-models-for-governanceeditorial-oversight-for-dh-projects Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » Topic: What are some models for governance/editorial oversight for DH projects? en-US Thu, 04 Aug 2016 04:21:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/search.php http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-are-some-models-for-governanceeditorial-oversight-for-dh-projects#post-1974 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:24:24 +0000 David Michelson 1974@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I am looking for models and best practices to ensure long term sustainability of a collaborative DH project. Could you please point me to long running DH projects whose protocols for governance, editorial oversight, institutional ownership/hosting I might emulate? I am thinking of medium sized DH projects as models, so bigger than one scholar publishing a digital project, but smaller than the TEI consortium or Jstor. Something the size of Nines or another project that has multiple contributors and a focused but regular scholarly user base.</p> <p>Given the concerns over sustainability inherent in DH, I am also interested in thoughts and advice on how to transition a project from the stage where a grant-funded PI is the leader in getting content online to where an editorial board (and institutional hosts) maintain a project longer term. Also, how do DH projects handle the preservation of content for such a project? The data will be licensed open source, but who should hold the copyright after the project is launched? A university library, an s-corporation independent of any institution (like some non-profit scholarly journals or professional societies), the public domain, the original scholarly contributors?</p> <p>Please provide links to governance structures and legal arrangement of existing projects if you are aware of them. </p>