A first interdisciplinary conference around issues of sustainable data from digital fieldwork was held in 2006 and yielded several publications.

Five years on, the organizers wish to address the subject again from the perspective of methods for improving research outcomes by a better use of technology.

Digital methods for recording information are now ubiquitous in fieldwork-based disciplines like linguistics, musicology, anthropology and so on. These recordings are of high cultural value of course, and the question of their handling in the future remains. There is great benefit in the proper curation of these recordings, to the researcher, to the community in which they worked, and to the broader society.

Many questions remain as how to make the best of digital recording methods. Participants will be gearing the conference towards the following topics:

• how to ensure the longevity of recorded data

• how researchers can access their data over time

• how to provide public access to publicly funded research data

• how to provide data to the people who are recorded, especially to those who have little access to the internet or even computers

• how researchers can embed analysis in accessible data to allow verification of their claims

• how to enable research based on digital data from archival sources, etc.

Keynote speaker is Stephen Ramsay, an Associate Professor of English and a Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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