[Themaintainers] Sunsetting/archiving projects

[Edward Summers]

Great question! I quite like Marisa Cohn’s idea of *convivial decay* which she developed while studying the aging and obsolescent infrastructure supporting a space science mission [1]. If you enjoy that you might also like her dissertation that goes more into the details [2].

//Ed

[1]  Cohn, M. (2016). Convivial decay: Entangled lifetimes in a geriatric infrastructure. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, pages 1509–1521. Association for Computing Machinery. https://core.ac.uk/reader/81666465

[2] Cohn, M. L. (2013). Lifetimes and Legacies: Temporalities of Sociotechnical Change in a Long-Lived System. PhD thesis, University of California at Irvine.https://search.proquest.com/docview/1469746267

> On Jan 16, 2019, at 3:42 PM, Hillel Arnold <hillel.arnold at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There's a great online book(let) on this very topic written by Jason Ronallo and Bret Davidson of NCSU: https://ronallo.com/sunsetting-book/
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> Hillel
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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:34 PM Greg Bloom <bloom at openreferral.org> wrote:
> Dirk Slater at FabRiders has been developing some framework around the 'lifecycle' of information resources. This may be relevant? https://www.fabriders.net/network-centric-resources-lifecycle/
> 
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 3:32 PM Camille E. Acey <connect at camilleacey.com> wrote:
> Dear Maintainers,
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> I'm trying to pull together some guidance on sunsetting/archiving projects and thought this group would likely be a fount of information.  I look forward to checking out your suggestions!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Camille
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