On our website, blog, and twitter, many of the data management topics we discuss relate to the sciences, especially with the advent of the federal funding requirements. So this semester, we’re hoping to include more humanities related content on the blog. To start us off, I’ve created a brief roundup of links that I think are a good introduction to and useful for thinking about humanities data and research data management.
Though targeted at librarians, this first article is a transcribed talk by Miriam Posner and gives good introduction on how ‘data’ is thought of in the humanities and how that differs from the sciences as well as the implications that has on data management.
This talk from Martin Donnelly is a European perspective, but also a good introduction into challenges of research data in the arts and humanities.
The Digital Humanities Data Curation site has a guide for standards and practices in working with humanities data.
If you’re writing a grant for the NEH, don’t forget to refer to their data management plan summary.
General data management best practices that can be applied to any discipline’s data can be found here on our site under our “Resources” tab or in this introductory talk by Brianna Marshall.
On campus resources include the Visualizing English Print project and the Digital Humanities Research Network.