About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of maintaining digital humanities projects after grant funding ends, featuring insights from David Flood of Harvard's DARTH team.

Digital humanities sounds niche, until you realize it can mean a searchable archive of U.S. amendment proposals, Irish folklore, or pigment science in ancient art. Today I’m talking with David Flood from Harvard’s DARTH team about an unglamorous problem: What happens when the grant ends but the website can’t. His answer, static sites, client-side search, and sneaky Python. Let’s dive in.

People in this episode

Host: Michael Kennedy

Guest: David Flood

Topics covered

• digital humanities
• static sites
• client-side search
• Python
• grant funding
• archival projects

Keywords

• digital humanities
• Python
• static sites
• client-side search
• grant funding
• archival projects

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard, DARTH

Places: U.S., Ireland

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