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2019 - 2021, I led on a project called the 'Digital Humanities Sustainability Project', which at its heart was the core aim of implementing a new Research Data Management system to help safely store, share and showcase digital humanities research data from the University of Oxford. This was a project that was over 10 years in the making, following a growing concern in the sector more broadly regarding the long-term sustainability of digital research outputs, which needs to be stored for longer than its initial grant-funded period.
Whilst involved on this project I feel the key achievements we delivered and core strengths I brought to this initiative could be described as follows:
Requirements gathering from a wide range of academic, research support & IT colleagues to understand what they need from a solution to store and share digital outputs
Lead on an Invitation to Tender exercise, including supplier & contract negotiations
Plan and organise internal & external teams to implement the Figshare open access repository solution
Lead internal colleagues to design and implement a service which both manages the technical platform, but also offers a consultancy service to researchers at Oxford, who are looking for a safe place to host their research outputs
Identify, build and migrate the first wave of data collections onto the platform to serve as pilots and demonstrate the usefulness of the service and platform.
Lead on launching the service (Sustainable Digital Scholarship service), in February 2021, including all the preparation work in the run-up to this, such as ensuring service management literature and policies
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