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. (Taken from syllabus)
- Ashna Rajbhandari, Project Manager
- Adaleah Carman, Collection Development Manager
- Daniel Johnson, Object Preservation Manager
- Ava Nepple, Metadata Manager
Vietnam War Protests on College Campuses: A collection of images related to Vietnam War protests on West Coast college campuses.
The repository's CollectionBuilder website can be visited here.
The Data Management Plan outlines the method and approaches we took to curate our digital collection. We provide an overview of data, technology used, and a explanation of our methods. We address Requirements for how data will be implemented, outlining rights and responsibilities. describing expected data types, data formats, data storage and preservation strategies. We provide an overview of metadata documentation included in the appendix.
The project's DMP can be viewed here.