Sunset Planning: Lessons and Tools for Responsible Stewardship of Community Digital Infrastructure and Projects Snowden Becker(1), Jackson Huang(2), Alex Kinnaman(3), Zach Vowell(4), Christine Wiseman(5) 1: LOCKSS Program, Stanford Libraries; 2: Educopia; 3: Virginia Tech; 4: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; 5: AUC Woodruff Library
Sharing lessons from the sunset of the twenty-year-old digital preservation network MetaArchive, this workshop provides tools to help community-based digital infrastructure and projects anticipate endings and pivotal changes as a part of holistic sustainability planning; express core values; and address diverse member needs as part of graceful change management.