Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship

Index

Index

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), 142, 192–3
annotation, 88–9, 175
archive, 43, 46, 64–5, 67,113
assessment
of individuals, 169–70, 176, 178
of research, 29–30, 142, 167, 169
See also Research Excellence Framework
authorship, 98, 177

bias
in technology, 120
towards novelty, 3, 90
structural, 56, 170–1
brokenness, 55–9, 63, 65, 68, 71–80

capitalism, 56, 126. See also neoliberalism
care, 22, 128, 132, 194
career
barriers, 30, 167–72, 192–3
early career researchers, 43, 141, 162, 193
progression, 15, 18, 20–1, 23, 63, 79–80, 121, 141
change, 29–30, 56, 64, 66, 78, 80, 102, 105, 163, 179, 188
climate crisis. See environmental sustainability
computational tools. See tools
conferences, 29, 104, 142, 191–5
critical digital humanities, 2, 6, 56, 59, 128, 141, 167
cultural heritage, 5, 78, 101–2, 199
digital, 22
cyber attack, 4, 67, 199

data
analysis, 41–2, 45, 119–20, 146
creation, 29
damage, 51, 63
dataset, 29, 45, 146–7, 187
ethics. See ethics
management, 4, 43, 57, 74, 89, 114, 119
open. See open
pipeline, 120–123
recovery, 65
skills, 22, 114, 185
wrangling, 18, 148, 193
database, 72, 89, 193
digital edition. See scholarly editing
Digital Humanities Climate Coalition Toolkit, 34
digital preservation, 63–8
long-term preservation, 90, 106, 112–13
Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), 66
digital research technical professional, 72
digital tools. See tools
documentation, 18, 24n3, 43, 46, 64–6, 72–4, 106, 108n3, 115, 147, 177

early career researchers. See careers
environment
climate crisis, 33–4, 56
environmental costs, 34, 37
ethics, 23, 80, 133, 154–5
evaluation. See assessment
experimentation, 27–8, 45, 59, 106, 127, 147, 175–6, 178

funding, 15–23, 28, 37, 80, 111, 125, 167–170, 178, 192, 195
bodies, 28–30, 120, 168–9
external , 17–19, 37
government , 17–19
schemes, 22, 29, 169–170, 195
self-funded projects, 16–17

gender, 30, 188–9, 193
geography of power, 193–4
glitch, 56
Global North, 178, 194
Global South, 170, 191–2, 195
grant. See funding

Hidden REF, 79, 168

inclusion, 67, 80, 142, 149, 170, 191, 195–6
Indigenous knowledge, 81n3, 154
innovation, 11–12, 28–9, 33–4, 37, 39, 45–7, 56–7, 179
interdisciplinarity, 28, 43, 98, 103, 106, 142, 167–8
Internet Archive, 199. See also web archive
iterative approaches, 57, 97, 103–6, 121, 126, 175–6, 183–4

knowledge
Indigenous, 154
infrastructure, 44, 59
production, 27, 71, 79–80, 101, 168, 175–6, 179, 192
representation, 90–2
sharing, 66, 115, 148, 178, 188, 191

labour, 15–16, 18–20, 23, 34, 59, 122, 127, 178
precarity of, 6, 79, 88, 176
language, 1, 5, 22, 91, 105, 113, 185, 187
body, 104
programming, 51, 90, 183, 186
large language model (LLM), 44
Living with Machines project, 97, 121

maintenance, 18, 37, 59, 64, 73–7, 112, 125, 137, 188
mapping, 114–15, 125, 191, 193–4
memory, 22, 87, 151–2, 188
metadata, 18, 42, 146
minimal computing, 37, 127

natural language processing, 120, 146
neoliberalism, 24, 34, 126–8, 141, 192
network
analysis, 145–6
IT, 75
networking, 92
obligation, 16
professional, 5, 66, 101
social, 136. See also social media

open
access, 18, 111, 125, 180, 183
data, 18, 46
peer review, 175, 182–3, 187
software, 46
source, 45
outreach, 111

peer review, 28–9, 125, 141, 183
platform, 18, 22, 34, 65, 89, 105, 111–12, 114, 195. See also tools
playfulness, 3, 27, 41, 44–5, 46, 72, 75
precarity. See labour, precarity of
preservation. See digital preservation
principal investigator (PI), 15, 126
professional environment, 79–80, 104–5, 113, 138, 149, 188
programming, 42–4, 163, 183–8
Programming Historian, 148, 183–8
Project Bamboo, 34
project management, 98, 126–8
prototype, 4, 42, 44, 78, 126–7
publishing
digital, 89, 111, 125, 183–4
experimental, 142, 175–9
institutional support for, 112
systematic failure of, 141

Queer Art of Failure, 133, 179

rejection, 132–3, 154, 162–3
repair, 56–9, 73–5, 78–9
repository, 18, 74, 113, 116n1, 125, 184
representation, 42, 90–1, 121–2, 183
Research Excellence Framework (REF), 81n4, 168, 179
research software engineering, 43, 71–80
risk, 22, 127, 153, 188
methodological, 3–4, 11–12, 29–30, 75, 168–9, 199
operational, 21, 28, 199
and privilege, 6, 132, 145, 155
reduction, 45, 72
theoretical, 67

Science and Technologies Studies, 51, 56
scholarly editing, 88–90, 92
social media, 57–8, 125
software, 29, 37, 41–7, 65, 71–80, 125–6, 175, 177, 186–7
Software Sustainability Institute, 43–4
standard
academic English, 154–5
documentation, 73
formats, 88–9, 51
procedures, 112
success, 28, 52, 62, 65, 132–8, 153–6, 179, 184, 199–200
career, 15, 145, 170
celebrations of, 29, 147, 151
evidence of, 64, 107, 131, 149, 176, 186
negative consequences of, 92
skills for, 67–8
sustainability, 16, 37, 43–4, 52, 78, 89, 112–13, 126, 186, 188. See also environment

technical environment, 73, 184, 186
technological obsolescence, 37, 51–2, 64–5, 75, 78, 186, 199–200
text analysis, 27, 57, 120, 146
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), 34, 37, 88–9, 92
tools, 22, 27, 34, 37, 41–3, 45, 90, 111–15, 123, 147, 177, 185
translation, 121, 167, 185, 189

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), 4, 28–9, 80

values, 80, 98, 115, 128, 133–5, 137–8, 191
visualisation, 119, 121, 125, 146–8, 193

web archive, 67
workflow, 17, 28, 64, 76–7, 89, 112, 114, 147, 175–7, 184, 186–7

XML, 34, 37, 88–9, 92