Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute Workshop to be held at Northeastern

[image1-right]The third and final in a series of Digital Humanities Data Curation workshops will be held April 30-May 2 at the Snell Library at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The series of three-day intensive workshops is hosted by Digital Humanities Data Curation (DHDC), a collaborative research project supported by CIRSS, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and Northeastern University that seeks to develop strong data curation practices within the digital humanities community through the workshop series as well as an online learning resource, the DH Curation Guide.

Instructors Trevor Muñoz (MS '11; MITH), Julia Flanders (Northeastern University), and Dorothea Salo (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will guide twenty participants through lectures and hands-on exercises, providing them with relevant skills and techniques, such as modeling humanities data for sustainable computational research, mitigating risks to data, developing and implementing data management plans, and evaluating the tools and systems that support data curation.

The workshop extends the curriculum originally developed for DHDC's inaugural workshop, held in June 2013 at GSLIS and the second workshop held in October 2013 at MITH. Participants will be exposed to enhanced examinations of humanities data curation, including a diverse set of practical exercises and analyses of humanities metadata and metadata systems. During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to apply their new data curation skills to a case study of the Early Caribbean Digital Archive presented by Elizabeth Dillon (project co-director), Benjamin Doyle (lead Omeka site developer), and Elizabeth Hopwood (lead TEI developer). Participants will also be encouraged to share information about their own projects and humanities data, including the curation challenges that arise in their institutions or as part of their individual research. To encourage ongoing engagement among institute participants, the DHDC team is also piloting a DH curation discussion forum this spring. This discussion forum will be integrated with the DH Curation Guide and opened to the public in late 2014.

Keep up with DHDC conversations on Twitter by following @DHCuration or searching #dhcuration.

Digital Humanities Data Curation is a project of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University, and the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship. This workshop series is generously funded by an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.