Dear list members, Professor Lewis Lancaster will be giving a talk at 3:30pm on Monday August 4 in building EA, level 1, room 33, at the University of Western Sydney. For enquires, please contact Dr Jason Ensor (02 9685 9891, j.ensor@uws.edu.au). We hope you can attend. Kind regards, AABS Executive Measuring the Success of Digital Data Projects Scholar communities have been creating extensive and important sets of digital data, including material from the Humanities and Social Sciences. It is now appropriate to begin the process of measuring the “success” of this pioneering epoch the era of technological advances. “Success” can come in many forms, and the very idea of it must be studied as carefully as the digital data itself. Unlike codex reports of research that have closure with a final chapter and summary, digital material remains in a state of physical change as hardware and software introduces significant changes with each new version. The complexity of analysis of so many different interrelated and interacting elements will require a team rather than being an activity of a single user. Professor Lewis Lancaster Lewis Lancaster is Professor (Emeritus) of the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture at the University of California, Berkeley.  He holds Adjunct positions at the University of the West in Los Angeles and the University of Hong Kong.  His work in the field of computer-aided research has included the digitization of Buddhist canonical material in Pali, Chinese, and Sanskrit.  He founded and serves as the Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) at the School of Information on the Berkeley campus. His current research is directed toward the creation of the Atlas of Maritime Buddhism, which is planned as an internet resource as well as a 3-D Immersive installation. Professor Lancaster is in Australia as a guest of the Nan Tien Institute.