Sustaining DH Endings, Dependencies, Infrastructure
Principled approaches across the digital humanities, libraries, and other memory institutions—such as the FAIR, CARE, Endings, and minimal computing—have all sought to address the affordances and challenges of creating and maintaining sustainable digital infrastructure.
Join us Tuesday April 9 at 12:30pm for Sustaining DH: Endings, Dependencies, Infrastructure a lecture featuring Joey Takeda! Register now: http://bit.ly/ddsp24-takeda-c
Abstract
Principled approaches across the digital humanities, libraries, and other memory institutions—such as the FAIR, CARE, Endings, and minimal computing—have all sought to address the affordances and challenges of creating and maintaining sustainable digital infrastructure.
Speaker
Joey Takeda is a Developer in the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab at Simon Fraser University Library. He holds an MA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, a BA in English and Gender Studies from the University of Victoria, and is currently completing a Masters of Library and Information Science at the University of Alberta (where he is an ARL Kaleidoscope Scholar). He currently sits on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Technical Council, the TEI By Example International Advisory Committee, and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Technical Advisory Committee and has worked on a variety of DH projects and initiatives, including The Map of Early Modern London, The Winnifred Eaton Archive, and The Endings Project. His current research centers on text encoding, digital critical editing, and sustainable infrastructures for DH development in academic libraries. His writing and research can be found in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Digital Studies / Le champ numérique, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.
Event
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