Data curation as "publishing" for digital humanists

Presented at the CIC Libraries Conference
Columbus, OH

Transcript

1. Data curation as “publishing” for digital humanists Trevor Muñoz University of Maryland CLI Annual Conference 2013
2. @trevormunoz #ciccli13
3. Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research, University Libraries Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
4. Humanities Data Curation Summit June 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/30852
5. DH Curation Guide July 2012 http://guide.dhcuration.org
6. Digital Humanities Winter Institute January 2013 http://ter.ps/dhwidc
7. Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute Summer 2013 - Spring 2014 http://www.dhcuration.org/institute
8. and more anon ...
9. Data curation as a “publishing” activity is increasingly important to digital humanists
10. Data curation as publishing is not the same as data publication
11. Data curation as publishing draws directly on the unique skills of librarians (unique value proposition!)
12. Data curation as publishing aligns directly with library missions and values
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.” “
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
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
16. connections between data curation and publishing are not new
17. Digital Curation and E-Publishing: Libraries Make the Connection Choudhury, Furlough, and Ray 2009 http://bit.ly/maketheconnection
18. Now and Future of Data Publishing 2013 #nfdp13 Symposium at Oxford University
19. Humanists have data. Digital humanists need data curation.
20. A PhD student investigating historical demographics of American religion posts tables & plots of population estimates to GitHub http://bit.ly/mullendemo
21. Literature scholars trying to understand the scope and structure of literary history collect, clean, and normalize data from HathiTrust http://usesofscale.com/
22. Data sets as enticement for digital humanists
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
24. IndexCat National Library of Medicine http://bit.ly/indexcat
25. What’s on the Menu? New York Public Library http://menus.nypl.org/data
26. Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature University of Florida Libraries http://bit.ly/baldwinlib
27. and many more
28. and many more
29. Data curation as a “publishing” activity is increasingly important to digital humanists
30. Digital Curation and E-Publishing: Libraries Make the Connection Choudhury, Furlough, and Ray 2009 http://bit.ly/maketheconnection
31. Data curation and publishing are mutually reinforcing activities where publishers and libraries can “make the connection”
32. Yes, and ...
33. Data curation itself is legible as a publishing activity
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
35. Data curation as publishing is not the same as data publication
36. Is Data Publication the Right Metaphor? Parsons and Fox 2013 http://bit.ly/parsonsfox
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” “
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.
39. Little emphasis on data discovery and interoperability across systems” “
40. Data are often presented as they were created without explicit considerations of data integration or significant reuse” “
41. issues such as latency, rapid versioning and reprocessing, and computational demands.” “
42. Data curation as publishing is not the same as data publication
43. Data curation itself is legible as a publishing activity
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
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
46. Data curation as publishing draws directly on the unique skills of librarians (unique value proposition!)
47. This is a type publishing “business” that libraries should be in
48. Data curation as publishing aligns directly with library missions and values
49. Little emphasis on data discovery and interoperability across systems” “
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
51. Ok, what might this really look like?
52. Digital Curation and E-Publishing: Libraries Make the Connection Choudhury, Furlough, and Ray 2009 http://bit.ly/maketheconnection
53. Open Context eds. Kansa, Kansa, and Deblauwe http://opencontext.org/about/
54. Thank You. Trevor Muñoz tmunoz@umd.edu @trevormunoz
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