[image1-right]The third and final in a series of Digital Humanities Data Curation
workshops will be held April 30-May 2 at the Snell Library at
Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The series of three-day intensive
workshops is hosted by Digital Humanities Data Curation (DHDC),
a collaborative research project supported by CIRSS, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and
Northeastern University that seeks to develop strong data curation
practices within the digital humanities community through the workshop
series as well as an online learning resource, the DH Curation Guide.
Instructors
Trevor Muñoz (MS '11; MITH), Julia Flanders (Northeastern University), and
Dorothea Salo (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will guide twenty participants through lectures and hands-on exercises, providing them
with relevant skills and techniques, such as modeling humanities data
for sustainable computational research, mitigating risks to data,
developing and implementing data management plans, and evaluating the
tools and systems that support data curation.
The workshop
extends the curriculum originally developed for DHDC's inaugural
workshop, held in June 2013 at GSLIS and
the second workshop held in October 2013 at MITH. Participants will be
exposed to enhanced examinations of humanities data curation, including a
diverse set of practical exercises and analyses of humanities metadata
and metadata systems. During the workshop, participants will have the
opportunity to apply their new data curation skills to a case study of
the Early Caribbean Digital Archive
presented by Elizabeth Dillon (project co-director), Benjamin Doyle
(lead Omeka site developer), and Elizabeth Hopwood (lead TEI developer).
Participants will also be encouraged to share information about their
own projects and humanities data, including the curation challenges that
arise in their institutions or as part of their individual research. To
encourage ongoing engagement among institute participants, the DHDC
team is also piloting a DH curation discussion forum this spring. This
discussion forum will be integrated with the DH Curation Guide and opened
to the public in late 2014.
Keep up with DHDC conversations on Twitter by following @DHCuration or searching #dhcuration.
Digital
Humanities Data Curation is a project of the Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities, the Women Writers Project at Northeastern
University, and the Center for Informatics Research in Science and
Scholarship. This workshop series is generously funded by an Institute
for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.