Libraries – THATCamp Modern Language Association Boston 2013 http://mla2013.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp at the Modern Language Association Convention in Boston, January 2013 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:56:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 IT wishlist http://mla2013.thatcamp.org/01/01/it-wishlist/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 04:48:12 +0000 http://mla2013.thatcamp.org/?p=322 Continue reading ]]>

Central IT often plays a minor role in supporting innovative digital humanities work, which is frequently concentrated in (digital) humanities centers and libraries. One of the factors contributing to this is the central IT tendency to pursue one-size-fits-all/none systems that target extremely generic needs (e.g. hosting for static web page, file storage space, etc.) If you could choose what the fundamental systems, platforms, and staff expertise central IT would have to provide a reasonable level of support for digital humanities (and free up resources elsewhere for projects with needs beyond the core supported tools), what would they be?

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