'Sustaining Collaboration from Afar’ Lessons from One Week, One Tool Mia Ridge @mia_out Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London Sustainable History: Ensuring today's digital
'Sustaining Collaboration from Afar' Lessons from One Week, One Tool
May 19, 2015
I'm going to talk about a tool created in one week over the summer, and how we've kept working on it after that week. At a technical level this is about sustaining a piece of software in a changeable technical environment, but more broadly it's about creating and sustaining relationships and trust when we've all gone back to our everyday lives.
Presentation on CHNM's One Week One Tool project, Serendip-o-matic, at 'Sustainable History: Ensuring today's digital history survives', Senate House, London
Presentation on CHNM's One Week One Tool project, Serendip-o-matic, at 'Sustainable History: Ensuring today's digital history survives', Senate House, London
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'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
• Find out more:• http://
serendipomatic.org• https://github.com/
chnm/serendipomatic
• Thank you!
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