From pipe dreams and waste to functional accretion: building a capable infrastructure for the Digital Humanities

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Describes Heurist (HeuristNetwork.org), an open-source, shared data infrastructure and CMS for Digital Humanities that stores schemas as editable data and supports modelling, analysis, visualisation and publishing across many heterogeneous projects. Covers the platform’s evolution from early ad hoc development to an Extreme Programming–style, incremental development process, plus principles for backwards compatibility, low-cost maintenance, mutualised development and operation of centralised free services and institution-based servers.

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