Legacy No Longer: Designing Sustainable Systems for Website Development

Authors

Karin Dalziel, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Jessica Dussault, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Greg Tunink, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

6-2018

Citation

Dalziel, Karin; Dussault, Jessica; Tunink, Greg (2018). "Legacy No Longer: Designing Sustainable Systems for Website Development." Digital Humanities 2018. https://dh2018.adho.org/en/legacy-no-longer-designing-sustainable-systems-for-website-development/

Comments

Originally published as a short paper at Digital Humanities 2018

Abstract

The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is home to digital collections such as The Walt Whitman Archive, The Willa Cather Archive, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, and O Say Can You See. These projects contain overlap between subjects, individuals, and locations, yet are siloed, and many are built in aging, unsupported technologies with no interoperability or common search. In order to address this, the Center has developed an API (“Henbit”) as part of a modular software stack to index and display data and content.