'Sustaining Collaboration from Afar’ Lessons from One Week, One Tool

Mia Ridge @mia_out

Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, LondonSustainable History: Ensuring today's digital history survives

‘A project is not a project without an end’

Sharon Leon at OWOT

Launch!

Managing the transition

Sustaining from afar

What counts?

Opening up

Potential contributors

GLAM APIs

Coding skills

Support goals

Support goals

Have time

Have skills

Software libraries used• Natural Language Toolkit, Apache2 license• Beautiful Soup, MIT License • Django, custom license? • Isotope, MIT license • DBpedia Spotlight, Apache v.2 with other small thing • Skeleton.css, MIT license • Requests, Apache2 license• bibs, GPLv3 license • libZotero, no license listed• Flickr API, Flickr license• PyYAML• dicttoxml, GPL v.2 • xmltodict, MIT license • lxml• OAuth• simplejson, MIT License

Content providers

• International Cultural Heritage Aggregators– Digital Public Library of America – http://dp.la

– 4.5 million items from US cultural heritage institutions

– Europeana – http://www.europeana.eu– Approximately 15 million items from European collections

– Flickr Commons - http://www.flickr.com/commons– International collection of publicly held photos

– Trove - http://trove.nla.gov.au/– 370 million “Australian and online” resources

Some solutions

• Set expectations about technical and collaborative sustainability

• Use the richest possible communication channels; document for transparency

• Create bite-sized problems that need solving; support constructive procrastination

• Activity begets activity; so do deadlines• Balance sustainability and agility in platforms

Thank you!

• Find out more:• http://serendipomatic.org/• https://github.com/chnm/serendipomatic

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serendipomatic.org• https://github.com/

chnm/serendipomatic

• Thank you!