This course provides students with theoretical and practical experience in collecting, processing, archiving, and publishing humanities data (images, video, sound, text, maps, etc.) gathered from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs). With the goal of building thematic digital collections as researchers, students will learn digital methodologies focusing on the technical, legal, ethical, and social aspects of working with humanities research data throughout its curation lifecycle. This includes hands-on experience finding, assessing, organizing, and reformatting data; creating and remediating descriptive metadata; evaluating and determining copyright and licensing; writing a data management plan using the standards set by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and sharing thematic research digital collections using GitHub and the open-source platform CollectionBuilder.
Description referenced from Course Syllabus
- Andre Cachoua Cervillo Repository Manager
- Billy Chao Object Preservation Manager
- Britta Anderson Collection Dovelopment Manager
- Ceilidh McCallum Project Manager
- Hailey Rosquist Metatdata Manager
The Bicycle Revolution - Fashions and Freedoms GitHub
This digital collection explores the relationship between changing fashion and expanding personal freedoms utilising bikes through the 20th century. Through visual media, our collection of 25 photographs highlights how everyday riders expressed their identity through fashion and adapting bicycles to showcase individual style during the Bicycle Revolution.
The Group's Data Mangement Plan details all information regarding the project in terms of how it was created, processed, stored, and eventually published. It covers a description of the project itself as well as explaining team roles and responsibilities. The DMP also explains what kind of data was used, and how it was processed and stored within our team drive. It includes further details about the file naming standard as well as the project data dictionary.
The Data Management Plan can be found here on the Group's GitHub Repository.