Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in Digital Humanities Research Export

@article{citeulike:5042930, abstract = {The case of the Orlando Project offers a useful interrogation of concepts like completion and finality, as they emerge in the arena of electronic publication. The idea of "doneness" circulates discursively within a complex and evolving scholarly ecology where new modes of digital publication are changing our conceptions of textuality, at the same time that models of publication, funding, and archiving are rapidly changing. Within this ecology, it is instrumental and indeed valuable to consider particular tasks and stages done, even as the capacities of digital media push against a sense of finality. However, careful interrogation of aims and ends is required to think through the relation of a digital project to completion, whether modular, provisional, or of the project as a whole.}, author = {Brown, Susan and Clements, Patricia and Grundy, Isobel and Ruecker, Stan and Antoniuk, Jeffery and Balazs, Sharon}, citeulike-article-id = {5042930}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/2/000040.html}, journal = {DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly}, keywords = {digital-archives, digital\_humanities, project-planning}, number = {2}, posted-at = {2009-07-02 19:37:35}, priority = {3}, title = {Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in Digital Humanities Research}, url = {http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/2/000040.html}, volume = {3}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5042930 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5042930 N2 - The case of the Orlando Project offers a useful interrogation of concepts like completion and finality, as they emerge in the arena of electronic publication. The idea of "doneness" circulates discursively within a complex and evolving scholarly ecology where new modes of digital publication are changing our conceptions of textuality, at the same time that models of publication, funding, and archiving are rapidly changing. Within this ecology, it is instrumental and indeed valuable to consider particular tasks and stages done, even as the capacities of digital media push against a sense of finality. However, careful interrogation of aims and ends is required to think through the relation of a digital project to completion, whether modular, provisional, or of the project as a whole. IS - 2 JF - DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly TI - Published Yet Never Done: The Tension Between Projection and Completion in Digital Humanities Research VL - 3 KW - digital-archives KW - digital_humanities KW - project-planning AU - Brown, Susan AU - Clements, Patricia AU - Grundy, Isobel AU - Ruecker, Stan AU - Antoniuk, Jeffery AU - Balazs, Sharon PY - 2009///Spring UR - http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/2/000040.html ER -