Following on Tom’s and Chris’s posts, sustainability has emerged as an important issue. Let me offer a couple quick words on the subject.

1) Sustainability demands not just funding but digital infrastructure, including both hardware resources and technical knowledge/competence.  How do we build and sustain technical competence in a university, institution, or community? How do we reward it, nurture and develop it? This includes developing such competence among faculty.

2) It seems to me that sustainability also demands collaboration between multiple partners. Within universities, this might mean between faculty and librarians, between faculty and technology/computing folks, developing technical services that support digital humanities (its great to see digital humanities centers here–I want to learn more.)  But, it also means collaborations across institutions and across universities. How can we build sustainable collaboration that advances multiple projects–and collaborations in which technology is embedded and integrated as part of the inquiry itself? And, how do we encourage meaningful scholarly collaboration, not just “advisory” boards?

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