Literature Matters: Sustainably Don(n)e: Taking Care of Digital Literary Resources
A public talk by Department of English faculty member Brent Nelson
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 22
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Grace-Westminster United Church Social Hall, 505-10th St. E., Saskatoon
Free and open to the public
About this event
In the year 2025, we find ourselves at risk of losing large swatches of our digital cultural heritage. The last thirty years have seen an accumulation of open-access digital resources, many of them built by individuals or groups of scholars; but how sustainable are these resources? What happens when funding for developing and maintaining them runs out and/or the faculty champion of the project retires or leaves the host institution? This paper will present the case of one such project, DigitalDonne, which is poised to be removed from the university servers that developed and supported it. But we have a plan! And we have a cross-sector partnership to implement that plan and to address the question of sustainability in digital scholarly resources.
Literature Matters: Literature in the Community is a free public lecture series sponsored by the University of Saskatchewan Department of English.
Info: 306-966-1268 | english.department@usask.ca
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