Digitising History - Section 2.7

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	Digitising History CHAPTER 2 : MANAGING DIGITAL RESOURCE CREATION PROJECTS
	2.7 Managing real world projects: tough decisions Most real world projects adopt some measure of 'systematic' management, ranging from largely informal approaches to extensive use of formal methods and techniques. In most cases this will help to complete the project with at least a subset of its original aims and objectives achieved. However, even adhering to every applicable standard, guideline and 'good practice', and understanding and applying suitable techniques does not completely safeguard against the impact of unanticipated, adverse, situations. Funding cuts, staff changes and illness, are just a few examples of problems which may force projects to drop deliverables or lower 'minimum' standards. The question that must then be answered is: 'what can be salvaged?' or rather: 'what is worth salvaging?' There is, unsurprisingly, no set answer, but the concept of re-usability mentioned in Section 2.1, provides at least a basis for establishing criteria for decisions of this kind. In other words: trying to maximise the amount of properly documented, re-usable data is a sensible point of departure in situations like this.
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