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Building the Archive of Digital Humanities Research: Libraries and Data Curation of Digital Humanities
Projects
Harriett GreenUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2013 DLF ForumNovember 5, 2013
Today’s Talk
• Overview of humanities data curation• 3 case studies of digital humanities
curation in libraries• Possible principles for digital
humanities data curation in libraries and areas of focus
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Humanities DataOur Cultural Commonwealth: The report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences“The complexity of the record of human cultures . . . makes digitization difficult and expensive. Moreover, a critical mass of information is often necessary for understanding both the context and the specifics of an artifact or event, and this may include large collections of multimedia content: images, text, moving images, audio.”
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DH Data Curation In Libraries
Walters and Skinner, New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for PreservationMuñoz and Renear, “Issues in Humanities Data Curation”:“Librarians and archivists acting as humanities data curators must embrace roles as researchers in the manner that programmers and software engineers in the digital humanities have come to do.”
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Case Studies
Interviews with:• Walt Whitman Archive (Nebraska)• Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana)• Valley of the Shadow (University of
Virginia)Analysis:- What is their level of curation?- What are their needs to implement full
data curation workflow?
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WALT WHITMAN ARCHIVEhttp://whitmanarchive.org/
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DATA:- XML files- HTML files- Images- Recordings
WORKFLOW: - XML files stored on
server- Images in variety
of sizes- Storage on optical
discs- Two earlier
versions of the full Archive and website preserved
ANALYSIS:- Beginning to
partner with university archives
- Basic level of data curation
- Basic steps for storage and preservation
VICTORIAN WOMEN WRITERS PROJECT
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/vwwp/
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DATA:- XML files of
transcribed texts, annotations and biographical summaries
- HTML files
WORKFLOW:- Submit repository
for creating, editing, versioning, and storage
- Fedora repository for storage
ANALYSIS:- Mid-tier level of
data curation- Strong system and
repository for managing e-texts
VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/ http://www.digitalcurationservices.org/sustaining-digital-scholarship/valley-of-the-shadow/
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DATA:- XML files- HTML files- Images
PROCESS:- Assessment and
inventory- Reformatted and
upgraded XML and HTML files
- Rescanned images- Migrated files
ANALYSIS:- High level of data
curation- Extensive and
well-supported process for digital curation of the archive
Needs Analysis
Resources
Personnel
Training
Principles for Best Practices
Sustaining Digital Scholarship report• Significant properties: “Those elements
that are intrinsic to the project's identity and purpose. They include those parts of the project that contain the project's scholarship.”
• Curation Levels 1-5: Metadata preservation of the entire project
Data Curation ProfilesDCC Curation [email protected] @greenharr
Areas to Pursue• Workshops and conferences (e.g.,
Humanities Data Curation Institutes)• DH Curation Guide:
http://guide.dhcuration.orgEducation
• SDS Report• Consider your library’s resource
environment
Evaluation rubric for DH
projects
• “The library needs to think of digital curation as a core function of the library and to invest financial and other resources into it accordingly.”—Walters and Skinner, New Roles for New Times
Long term planning for
data curation
Data Curation for Research
Research collaborations
Scholars
Librarians
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“Much work remains to build the scholarly infrastructure necessary for digital scholarship to become mainstream in the humanities. . . . Librarians, archivists, programmers, and computer scientists will be essential collaborators, each bringing complementary skills.” —Christine Borgman, “The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities”
Thank you!Harriett Green
English and Digital Humanities LibrarianUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
[email protected]: @greenharr
Handout: https://uofi.box.com/dlf2013papergreen