Where do projects go when they die? How (and how not) to end a digital project

As part of DCCH's 'Research and Rescue' series, join us for a roundtable with colleagues from the School of English and University of Leeds Libraries to discuss the life-cycles of digital projects, reusability, planning for the end, and how 'dead' projects can be reanimated with new methods.

Panellists

Brett Greatley-Hirsch is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Textual Studies. He is co-editor of the journal Shakespeare, coordinating editor of Digital Renaissance Editions, and a Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association. His digital projects include CADRE: Co-Authored Drama in the Renaissance (b. 2020), the Bibliography of Editions of Early English Drama (b. 2013; rebooted 2025), and the Internet Shakespeare Editions (b. 1996, d. 2018), which is in the process of being reborn as the New Internet Shakespeare Editions.

Emily Middleton is Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the School of English. She is co-editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture digital forum, a Fellow of the Institute for Research Software, and part of the researcher group of the Museum Data Service. Her projects include Dickens Search (b. 2021) and The Atlas of Digitised Newspapers (b. 2020) and she was on the advisory board of TEI by Example (b. 2006, d. 2024).

Jim Mussell is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures.  Digital work includes the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (b. 2008, d. 2026?) and the journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.  He is the author of a number of publications on digitisation and digital culture including The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age (2012).

Chair: Jodie Double, Head of Digital Production and Access, Cultural Collections, University of Leeds Libraries)

Respondent: Sally Dalton, Head of Library Research Services (Open Research), University of Leeds Libraries

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