Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship

• Introduction: Reframing failure
  Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay

• Part I Innovation

• 1 Stop lying to yourself: Collective delusion and Digital Humanities grant funding
  Quinn Dombrowski

• 2 Risk, failure and the assessment of innovative research
  Jane Winters

• 3 Innovation, tools, and ecology
  Christopher Ohge

• 4 Software at play
  David De Roure

• Part II Technology

• 5 Brokenness is social
  Frances Corry

• 6 A career in ruins? Accepting imperfection and celebrating failures in digital preservation and digital archaeology
  Jenny Mitcham

• 7 Living well with brokenness in an inclusive research culture: what we can learn from failures and processes in a Digital Humanities lab
  Arianna Ciula

• 8 Can we be failing?
  Joris J. van Zundert

• Part III Collaboration

• 9 Doing, failing, learning: understanding what didn’t work as a key research finding in action research
  Arran J. Rees

• 10 Navigating the challenges and opportunities of collaboration
  Jennifer Stertzer

• 11 Challenging the pipeline structure: a reflection on the organisational flow of interdisciplinary projects
  Caio Mello

• 12 When optimisation fails us
  Jentery Sayers

• 13 Reframing ‘reframing’: A holistic approach to understanding failure
  Lauren Tuckley

• Part IV Institutions

• 14 Permission to experiment with literature as data and fail in the process
  Jennifer Isasi

• 15 What to do with failure? (What does failure do?)
  Brittany Amell

• 16 The remaining alternatives
  Elena Spadini

• 17 Who fails and why? Understanding the systemic causes of failure within and beyond the Digital Humanities
  Naomi Wells

• 18 Experimental publishing: Acknowledging, addressing, and embracing failure
  Janneke Adema

• 19 Writing about research methods: sharing failure to support success
  Anisa Hawes and Riva Quiroga

• 20 Bridging the distance: Confronting geographical failures in Digital Humanities conferences
  Nabeel Siddiqui

• Conclusion: On failing
  Anna-Maria Sichani and Michael Donnay

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Anna-Maria Sichani (Editor)

Anna-Maria Sichani is a BRAID Research Fellow and a Research Associate in Digital Humanities at School of Advanced Study, University of London. She has held postdoctoral positions at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex. Previously, she was awarded a UKRI Policy and Engagement Fellowship in Digital Research and Innovation Infrastructure, as well as a Fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute. She has also collaborated on national and international projects and infrastructures in digital cultural heritage and digital humanities, and has published extensively in these fields. Her research focuses on data-intensive research and emerging technologies, including AI, in the arts, humanities, and the wider cultural heritage and information environment, with a focus towards open, responsible, ethical, and sustainable research, alongside interests in media history, research infrastructures, and digital pedagogy.

Michael Donnay (Editor)

Michael Donnay is a Community Manager at the Software Sustainability Institute, where he supports the Society of Research Software Engineering and works on projects related to research culture and evaluation. Previously he worked at the School of Advanced Study, University of London where he helped establish the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association. He was the 2022 Ruth Watts Fellow with the History of Education Society, hosting their podcast on interdisciplinary work in the history of education, and has written on the history of science for Nature Chemistry. His research interests include creative-critical making, research project management and social network analysis.

‘Failure’ is too easily understood as a function of the single individual. If we are going to have a more humane digital humanities, we all of us need to learn how to understand failure(s). We need perspective, compassion, and clarity. We need, in fact, this volume.
—Shawn M. Graham, Professor of Digital Humanities, Carleton University, Canada.

Subject: Digital Humanities

BISAC codes: COM032000, EDU037000, SOC024000

Thema codes: GPS, JBCT1, UXA

Keywords: collaboration, computational, digital humanities, failure, innovation, institutions, interdisciplinary, obsolescence, research, scholarship, sustainability, technology

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