DSCI 350/LIB 350 - Humanities Research Data Management
This course is part of the University of Oregon Digital Humanities minor and Data Science Cultural Analytics undergraduate programs.
Course Description
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.
Instructor
Kate Thornhill, kmthorn@uoregon.edu, University of Oregon
Learning Outcomes & Acquired Skills
In this course, you will learn how to…
- Apply introductory digital stewardship (digital curation and preservation) actions to digital collections used as research data
- Solve issues around collecting, citing, standardizing, structuring, archiving, and publishing GLAM objects using information science best practices and guidelines
- Design and implement a humanities-based research data management plan for thematic research digital collection
- Develop communication skills with a team of people who have specific development roles and responsibilities associated with a technology project
- Use technical platforms and tools that making a digital collection publicly available online
In this course, you will acquire the ability to…
- Create and follow a digital collections data management plan
- Apply information professional best practices and standards to digital files and metadata for findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reproducibility
- Structure metadata using spreadsheets and making them interoperable
- Evaluate GLAM objects using best judgements about United States copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons
- Find and select research materials to reuse within a thematic digital collection
- Publish a website using GitHub Pages and the Jekyll theme, CollectionBuilder
Course Contents
- About the Course | topics: About
- Assignment - Term-based Group Project
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Week 1
- About Week 1 | topics: Week 1, Introduction, Open Data, Collaborative Research Infrastructure
- Week 1 Readings
- Activities
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Week 2
- About Week 2 | topics: Week 2, Data Management Planning
- Week 2 Readings
- Activities
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Week 3
- About Week 3 | topics: Week 3, Data Collection, Storage, Security and Privacy, Digital Special Collections and Archives
- Week 3 Readings
- Activities
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Week 4
- About Week 4 | topics: Week 4, Copyright Law, Fair Use, Rights Statements, Creative Commons
- Week 4 Readings
- Activities
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Week 5
- About Week 5 | topics: Week 5, File Formats and Standards, File Obsolencense
- Week 5 Readings
- Activities
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Week 6
- About Week 6 | topics: Week 6, Metadata Foundations, Cataloging
- Week 6 Readings
- Activities
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Week 7
- About Week 7 | topics: Week 7, Resource Description, Cultural Inclusion
- Week 7 Readings
- Activities
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Week 8
- About Week 8 | topics: Week 8, CollectionBuilder, Digital Platform Requirements
- Week 8 Readings
- Activities
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Week 9
- About Week 9 | topics: Week 9, Permanent Archives, Sharing Researh Data, CollectionBuilder
- Week 9 Readings
- Activities
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Week 10
- About Week 10 | topics: Week 10, UO Libraries, Final Presentations
- Week 10 Readings
- Activities
- Instructor Info
Credits
Citation:
"Humanities Research Data Management",
Kate Thornhill,
2023,
https://kmthorn.github.io/humanitiesdatamtg/
Content: CC BY-SA 2023 Kate Thornhill - Source Code.
Theme: lesson-template by Learn-Static is built using Jekyll on GitHub Pages. The site is styled using Bootstrap.