Working around Walled Gardens: The Princeton Prosody Archive as Workflow

This presentation discusses what walled gardens are and how they came to dominate our digital research landscape in ways that frequently block desired researcher workflows, as well as how walled gardens have shaped – and continue to shape – the kinds of projects and analysis that digital humanities scholars typically engage in. This presentation uses the Princeton Prosdody Archive as a case study to discuss the “dead ends” and roadblocks the project team encountered, describes the path the team eventually found through the hedge maze, and ends with imagining some futures beyond the walled gardens.