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Data curation as "publishing" for digital humanists

Data curation as "publishing" for digital humanists

Presented at the CIC Libraries Conference
Columbus, OH

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May 22, 2013
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  1. Data curation as
    “publishing” for digital
    humanists
    Trevor Muñoz
    University of Maryland
    CLI Annual Conference 2013

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  2. @trevormunoz
    #ciccli13

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  3. Assistant Dean for Digital
    Humanities Research, University
    Libraries
    Associate Director, Maryland
    Institute for Technology in the
    Humanities (MITH)

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  4. Humanities Data Curation Summit
    June 2011
    http://hdl.handle.net/2142/30852

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  5. DH Curation Guide
    July 2012
    http://guide.dhcuration.org

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  6. Digital Humanities Winter Institute
    January 2013
    http://ter.ps/dhwidc

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  7. Digital Humanities Data Curation
    Institute
    Summer 2013 - Spring 2014
    http://www.dhcuration.org/institute

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  8. and more anon ...

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  9. Data curation as a “publishing”
    activity is increasingly important
    to digital humanists

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  10. Data curation as publishing is
    not the same as data publication

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  11. Data curation as publishing
    draws directly on the unique
    skills of librarians
    (unique value proposition!)

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  12. Data curation as publishing
    aligns directly with library
    missions and values

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  13. Data curation involves
    maintaining digital information
    that is produced in the course of
    research in a manner that
    preserves its meaning and
    usefulness as a potential input
    for further research.”

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  14. Data curation is
    the active and on-going
    management of data through its
    lifecycle of interest and
    usefulness to scholarship,
    science, and education.”

    http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3493

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  15. curation activities enable data
    discovery and retrieval, maintain
    quality, add value, and provide
    for re-use over time.”

    http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3493

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  16. connections between data curation
    and publishing are not new

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  17. Digital Curation and E-Publishing:
    Libraries Make the Connection
    Choudhury, Furlough, and Ray
    2009
    http://bit.ly/maketheconnection

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  18. Now and Future of Data Publishing
    2013
    #nfdp13
    Symposium at Oxford University

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  19. Humanists have data.
    Digital humanists need data curation.

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  20. A PhD student investigating historical
    demographics of American religion
    posts tables & plots of population
    estimates to GitHub
    http://bit.ly/mullendemo

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  21. Literature scholars trying to
    understand the scope and structure
    of literary history collect, clean, and
    normalize data from HathiTrust
    http://usesofscale.com/

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  22. Data sets as enticement for digital
    humanists

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  23. Help - anyone have (or know of)
    openly licensed datasets
    (preferably heritage related) that
    can be used in @chi_initiative
    fieldschool?”

    http://bit.ly/canhazdata

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  24. IndexCat
    National Library of Medicine
    http://bit.ly/indexcat

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  25. What’s on the Menu?
    New York Public Library
    http://menus.nypl.org/data

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  26. Baldwin Library of Historical
    Children’s Literature
    University of Florida Libraries
    http://bit.ly/baldwinlib

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  27. and many more

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  28. and many more

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  29. Data curation as a “publishing”
    activity is increasingly important
    to digital humanists

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  30. Digital Curation and E-Publishing:
    Libraries Make the Connection
    Choudhury, Furlough, and Ray
    2009
    http://bit.ly/maketheconnection

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  31. Data curation and publishing are
    mutually reinforcing activities
    where publishers and libraries
    can “make the connection”

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  32. Yes, and ...

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  33. Data curation itself is legible as
    a publishing activity

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  34. curation activities enable data
    discovery and retrieval, maintain
    quality, add value, and provide
    for re-use over time.”

    http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3493

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  35. Data curation as publishing is
    not the same as data publication

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  36. Is Data Publication the Right
    Metaphor?
    Parsons and Fox
    2013
    http://bit.ly/parsonsfox

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  37. There is ... little emphasis on
    data discovery and
    interoperability across systems.
    Data are often presented as they
    were created without explicit
    considerations of data
    integration or significant reuse”

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  38. Adopting only the data
    publication model expands
    recognizable publisher and
    library activities to a new class
    of scholarly objects but in many
    ways perpetuates the
    (problematic) status quo.

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  39. Little emphasis on data
    discovery and interoperability
    across systems”

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  40. Data are often presented as they
    were created without explicit
    considerations of data
    integration or significant reuse”

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  41. issues such as latency, rapid
    versioning and reprocessing,
    and computational demands.”

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  42. Data curation as publishing is
    not the same as data publication

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  43. Data curation itself is legible as
    a publishing activity

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  44. curation activities enable data
    discovery and retrieval, maintain
    quality, add value, and provide
    for re-use over time.”

    http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3493

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  45. The library and information
    science meta-science
    perspective articulated by
    [Marcia] Bates (1999) has always
    been fundamental to the role of
    providing broad, useable
    information collections and
    services, especially to support
    interdisciplinary research.”

    http://bit.ly/reusevalue

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  46. Data curation as publishing
    draws directly on the unique
    skills of librarians
    (unique value proposition!)

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  47. This is a type publishing
    “business” that libraries should
    be in

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  48. Data curation as publishing
    aligns directly with library
    missions and values

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  49. Little emphasis on data
    discovery and interoperability
    across systems”

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  50. curation activities enable data
    discovery and retrieval, maintain
    quality, add value, and provide
    for re-use over time.”

    http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3493

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  51. Ok, what might this really look
    like?

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  52. Digital Curation and E-Publishing:
    Libraries Make the Connection
    Choudhury, Furlough, and Ray
    2009
    http://bit.ly/maketheconnection

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  53. Open Context
    eds. Kansa, Kansa, and Deblauwe
    http://opencontext.org/about/

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  54. Thank You.
    Trevor Muñoz
    [email protected]
    @trevormunoz

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  55. Data curation as a “publishing” activity is
    increasingly important to digital humanists
    Data curation as publishing is not the same
    as data publication
    Data curation as publishing draws directly
    on the unique skills of librarians
    Data curation as publishing aligns directly
    with library missions and values

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