Publications

Full Project Bibliography to Date

• Collins, P., Fenlon, K., Langmead, A., Oates, G., Otis, J. (2025). Revitalizing, Maintaining, & Sunsetting the Digital Humanities: Strategies & Opportunities. Panel presented at DH2025 Conference. 

• Wise, N. & Fenlon, K. (2024). Understanding models of community-institutional partnership for digital cultural knowledge. The Association for Computers and the Humanities Annual Conference (ACH 2024), Virtual Conference. https://ach2024.ach.org/program/

• Fenlon, K., Wise, N. M., & Sorensen, A. H. (2024). Community Partnerships in Digital Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Review. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 908–910. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1136

• Fenlon, K. (2024, May 16). “Digital Humanities: Empowering and sustaining community knowledge.” Invited talk for the International IS Laboratory, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Columbia. 

• Fenlon, K., Grimmer, J., Reza, A., Wagner, T., Sorensen, A. (2024). Community-centered sustainability toolkit. https://go.umd.edu/sustaincommunities  

• Fenlon, K., Reza, A., Grimmer, J., & Wagner, T. (2023). Mutual sustainability among communities and their knowledge infrastructures. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), 133–144. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.775

• Fenlon, K., Reza, A., Grimmer, J. & Wagner, T. (2023). Community-centric factors in sustaining digital scholarship. Paper presented at Digital Humanities (DH2023), the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Graz, Austria, July 10-14. https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.7961821

• Fenlon, K. (2023, October 13). Resilient processes: Centering communities in collaborative digital collections. Keynote talk for Potomac Technical Processing Librarians 99th Annual Meeting, Leonardtown, MD. https://www.potomactechlibrarians.org/PTPL-99th-Annual-Meeting

• Fenlon, K., Marsh, D., Van Hyning, V., & Wagner, T. (2023, March 9). Platforms and Practices for Activating Community Knowledge. Association for Information Science and Technology Virtual Research Symposium. https://members.asist.org/events/Details/research-symposium-platforms-and-practices-for-activating-community-knowledge-850264

• Fenlon, K., Grimmer, J., Reza, A. F., & Thurston, C. (2021). “Meaning in the present”: Understanding sustainability for digital community collections. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Salt Lake City, Utah, and Online. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.476

  • • **Awarded: 1st place - Best short paper award

• Fenlon, K. (2021, February 24). “Beyond standards: Community-centered sustainability for digital humanities scholarship.” NISO+ Conference, National Information Standards Organization, February 22-25.

• Fenlon, K. (2022, November 15). “Persisting: Digital resources by and for communities,” Code for Science and Society Event Fund Seminar Series, Code for Science and Society, Zoom.

• Grimmer, J. and Fenlon, K. (2022). Community-centered sustainability: A case study of the Music Encoding Initiative, Grimmer, J., Fenlon, K., Music Encoding Conference. Annual conference of the Music Encoding Initiative. Halifax, Canada, May 19-22.

  • • **Awarded: Best paper.

• Grimmer, J., & Fenlon, K. (2021). Community-centered sustainability: A case study of the Music Encoding Initiative. Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference, Virtual Conference. https://budsc.scholar.bucknell.edu/

• Fenlon, K., Muñoz, T., Williams, D., Foley, C., Sharps-Jones, V., Thurston, C., & Miller, M. (2021). Sustaining digital scholarship: Community perspectives and community-centered strategies [Peer-reviewed roundtable discussion]. The Association for Computers and the Humanities Annual Conference (ACH 2021), Virtual Conference. https://ach2021.ach.org/

• Thurston, C. & Fenlon, K. (2021). Sustainability by design: Toward community-centered strategies for durable digital collections. iConference. https://ischools.org/2021-agenda [Peer-reviewed poster abstract]

  • • **Finalist: Best Poster

• Grimmer, J., Fenlon, K., & Thurston, C. (2021). Music encoding and digital derivative sources: Creation and use of the Beethovens Werkstatt Collection. Music Library Association Annual Meeting, March 1-5. https://vimeo.com/538710404

• Fenlon, K., Grimmer, J. H., & Thurston, C. (2020). Purpose, completeness, and evidential source: Typological signposts in the collections landscape. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), e262. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.262

• Fenlon, K. and Muñoz, T. (2020). What if we can’t manage our way to better sustainability? Digital Humanities (DH2020), the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Ottawa, Canada, July 22-24. https://dh2020.adho.org/abstracts/

• Fenlon, K. (2020). “Toward collaborative models for sustaining digital scholarship.” Invited Talk at Johns Hopkins University Libraries, Baltimore, MD.

• Fenlon et al. (under review / forthcoming). The Oyster Model: Understanding Community Roles in Sustaining Digital Cultural Knowledge Infrastructures. [peer-reviewed journal article]

Stakeholders

Stakeholders in this work include public and academic libraries and archives; scholars and research communities in the humanities; community archives; and LIS research.  

• Public and academic libraries and archives: NISO+ Conference; Potomac Technical Processing Librarians Annual Meeting; Invited talk at Johns Hopkins University Libraries; the Music Library Association Annual Meeting; 

• Scholars and research communities in the humanities: NISO+ Conference; Invited talk at Johns Hopkins University Libraries; The Association for Computers and the Humanities Annual Conference; the ADHO Digital Humanities Conference; the Music Encoding Conference; Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference.

• Community archives: The Association for Computers and the Humanities Annual Conference; the ADHO Digital Humanities Conference (audiences are largely academic, but often and increasingly connected to community-based projects). We also reach these communities indirectly through our outreach to libraries, archives, and museums, which serve as intermediary organizations to communities.   

• LIS/information sciences research and education: Invited talks at International IS Laboratory, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Columbia; Johns Hopkins University Libraries; NISO+ Conference; Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meetings; ASIS&T Virtual Research Symposium; the iConference international conference of the iSchools Organization.

In addition to these broad groups/domains, this work has directly benefited our partner communities (the case study participants), through the development of sustainability plans, co-authored publications, indirectly related grant proposals, course projects and student internships sparked by this collaboration, and a workshop on the meaning of sustainability and approaches to sustainable development. The toolkit and several publications and presentation are openly accessible on the Web.