The chapter traces the development of Recalling Jewish Calcutta, an early example of a digital public memory project that houses artefacts pertaining to the history and memory of the Jewish community in the city of Calcutta. As a collaborative project, it sees the active participation of independent researchers, academics with institutional affiliations, students, and the wider public. In the building of this project, several lessons are learnt; this chapter provides a reflection on those issues and locates three pedagogical moments to illustrate the importance of practice-based scholarship. The first discusses the value of digital collections and the need for openness in scholarship; the second focuses on the transition of the digital humanist from a user of electronic resources to a maker of electronic collections; the third reminds us of the fragility of digital resources and highlights the need for infrastructural support.