Resources for Starting and Sustaining Digital Humanities Centers

This resources page lists talks, articles, sample DH proposals and other sources of information about ways to start and sustain DH centers. It will be updated as new materials become available.
These resources have been gathered by Dr. Lynne Siemens, centerNet’s Coordinator for Center Start Ups. To contact her directly, emailsiemensl@uvic.ca or follow her on twitter.
You can also join centerNet’s new listserv, DHCenterStartUp.

Talks

Dr. Bethany Nowviskie, Too Small to Fail, Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, September 2012, http://nowviskie.org/2012/too-small-to-fail/
Dr. Lynne Siemens, Formation of a DH Lab, THATCamp Caribe, November 2012, http://lynnesiemens.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/dh-centres-final.mov
USC University of Southern California, Preparing a Large Interdisciplinary Center Proposal, Slideshttps://research.usc.edu/files/2011/05/rwh_center_proposals.ppt

Articles

Bos, N., Zimmerman, A., Olson, J., Yew, J., Yerkie, J., Dahl, E., & Olson, G. (2007). From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), 652-672.
Cummings, J. N., & Kiesler, S. (2005). Collaborative Research Across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries. Social Studies of Science, 35(5), 703-722.
Cummings, J. N., & Kiesler, S. (2007). Coordination costs and project outcomes in multi-university collaborations. Research Policy, 36(10), 1620-1634.
de Moor, T., & van Zanden, J. L. (2008). Do ut des (I Give So That You Give Back): Collaboratories as a New Method for Scholarly Communication and Cooperation for Global History. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 41(2), 67-80.
Dormans, S., & Kok, J. (2010). An Alternative Approach to Large Historical Databases. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 43(3), 97-107.
Finholt, T. A. (2003). Collaboratories as a new form of scientific organization. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 12(1), 5-25.
Fraistat, N. (2012). The Function of Digital Humanities Centers at the Present Time. In M. K. Gold (Ed.), Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/23
Gray, D. O., & Walters, S. G. (Eds.). (1998). Managing the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center: A Guide for Directors and Other Stakeholders. Columbus, Ohio: Battelle Press. http://www.ncsu.edu/iucrc/PurpleBook.htm
Chapters of particular interest:
Walters, S. G., & Gray, D. O. (1998). Getting Started: Planning and Initiating a New Centre. In D. O. Gray & S. G. Walters (Eds.), Managing the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center: A Guide for Directors and Other Stakeholders. Columbus, Ohio: Battelle Press. http://www.ncsu.edu/iucrc/PDFs/PurpleBook/Chapter2.pdf
Gray, D. O., & Walters, S. G. (1998). Designing Centers: Principles for Effective Organizational Structure. In D. O. Gray & S. G. Walters (Eds.), Managing the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center: A Guide for Directors and Other Stakeholders. Columbus, Ohio: Battelle Press. http://www.ncsu.edu/iucrc/PDFs/PurpleBook/Chapter3.pdf
Tornatzky, L., Lovelace, K., Gray, D. O., Walters, S. G., & Geisler, E. (1998). Center Leadership: Putting It All Together. In D. O. Gray & S. G. Walters (Eds.), Managing the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center: A Guide for Directors and Other Stakeholders. Columbus, Ohio: Battelle Press.http://www.ncsu.edu/iucrc/PDFs/PurpleBook/Chapter10.pdf
Hunyadi, L. (2012). Collaboration in Virtual Space in Digital Humanities. In Deegan, M. & Mccarty, W. (Eds.)Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities. Surrey, UK, Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Myers, G. (1993). Centering: Proposals for an Interdisciplinary Research Center. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 18(4), 433-459.
Warwick, C. (2004). “No Such Thing as Humanities Computing?” An Analytical History of Digital Resource Creation and Computing in the Humanities. Paper presented at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, Göteborg, Sweden.http://tapor.humanities.mcmaster.ca/html/Nosuchthing_1.pdf.
Wulf, W. (1993). The collaboratory opportunity. Science, 261(5123), 854-855.
Zorich, D. (2008). A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States,http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub143/pub143.pdf

Other

How to plan a Digital Humanities Centre? Humanist listserve
http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2013-February/0106...
http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2013-February/0106...
http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2013-February/0106...
http://lists.digitalhumanities.org/pipermail/humanist/2013-February/0106...

DH Centre Models

IDHMC: the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture, Texas A&M, http://idhmc.tamu.edu/commentpress/dh-whitepaper/
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, http://cdrh.unl.edu/articles/creatingcdrh.php
Task Force on Digital Directions in the humanities, The University of Kansas,http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/10340/1/DigitalHumani...
Center for Digital Humanities, University of South Carolina, http://cdh.sc.edu/history-of-cdh
The Center for Digital Humanities @ South Carolina: Proposal to Establish an Interdisciplinary Center , USC Center Initial Proposal 2008
Proposal to Establish a Center for Digital Humanities, USC Center Proposal 2009