Preserving Humanities Data
This workshop will outline the key considerations for data preservation that a researcher needs to hold in mind from the outset. It will recapitulate the relevant lessons learned from the prior workshops on finding, structuring, and cleaning humanities data and weave them together to guide the decision making process for stewarding and sharing data. Critically, this session will emphasize the importance of rich documentation and provide some practical guidance for preparing what is expected by curators of research data repositories. We will also discuss the potential audiences for whom humanities data are preserved–including “future you”–and pathways for reaching those audiences efficiently and ethically.
This is the fifth in the Humanities Data Workshop Series, and all are welcome to register, whether or not they attended the prior sessions or plan to attend the rest of the series.
- Date:
- Wednesday, March 2, 2022
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Campus:
- Firestone Library
- Audience:
- First-Year Graduate Students Princeton Faculty/Researcher Princeton Staff Princeton Student
Humanities Data Workshop Series Overview:
A joint initiative between the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) and Princeton Research Data Service (PRDS), this workshop series will explore what “data” means in the context of humanities scholarship and provide an introduction to key techniques and analytical considerations for data-curious faculty, early-career researchers, graduate students, and Library staff. Over the course of six (6) workshops (three (3) workshops per semester), participants will learn about the animating methods and questions that go into finding, structuring, cleaning, and preserving data in humanities contexts. Sessions will use case studies from a range of disciplines, and will pay particular attention to the interpretative and ethical decisions involved in creating datasets from objects of humanities research. Stay posted for announcements on upcoming workshops in the series.
This is a virtual event hosted by CDH and PRDS. The Zoom link will be emailed to those who register.
To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact pulcomm@princeton.edu at least 3 working days in advance.