Project Design

Planning and managing projects to set them up for success

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Project design and management is one of the CDH’s distinctive strengths at Princeton and in the international digital humanities community.

We value project management as “scholarly exchange”: the intellectual labor that makes collaboration in digital humanities possible. We have developed a series of methods, processes, templates, and tools that guide projects toward success, from project charters to technical project management of research software engineering. In consultations and workshops, we teach these best practices to community members with digital humanities projects – big or small – at various stages of the project lifecycle.

Our professional development training for graduate student project managers is unique on campus. In the broader field of digital humanities, we contribute to scholarly discussions on theories of project management in presentations, workshops and articles.

The CDH project management process is forever indebted to the ideas, contributions and generous spirit of our colleague, Rebecca Munson.

Project Charters

The essential document for research collaborations

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Graduate Project Management Fellowship

Training for graduate students in the theory and practice of project management

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Project Design Workshop

Training for faculty in defining and scoping digital projects

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Humanities Accelerator

Supporting research, collaboration, and innovation in the humanities

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Related publications and presentations

Project Management and the Rise of RSEs

6 August 2024

At this year’s DARIAH Annual Event, CDH Project Manager Mary Naydan and Assistant Director Jeri Wieringa discussed the importance of project charters in an era of RSEs.

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Critical Project Management for DH: Rethinking the Project Charter

Workshop/tutorial at DH2020 (virtual) by Natalia Ermolaev, Rebecca Munson, and Andrew Janco

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Design for Digital Humanities Project Management

Panel on "Project Management for the Digital Humanities" at DH2018 (Mexico City) by Natalia Ermolaev, Rebecca Munson, and Xinyi Li

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