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Humanities Data

Humanities Data

An introduction to humanities data and data curation presented at the 2014 CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowship Summer Seminar, Bryn Mawr, PA, July 30, 2014.

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July 30, 2014
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  1. Humanities Data
    2014 CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Summer Seminar
    Trevor Muñoz
    University of Maryland
    30 July 2014

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    What is data?
    in the humanities
    for curation?
    What are the implications

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    Data
    is not a scientific concept

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    Data” is
    our common rhetorical tool for tracing
    epistemic practices …

    thus, “data” does equally
    important work as a concept for
    the humanities as for the
    sciences, and better equips us
    to think critically and creatively
    about the digital

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    Data Curation
    is stewardship of knowledge

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    Data curation is
    … the active and ongoing management of
    data
    of data throughout its entire
    lifecycle of interest and
    usefulness to scholarship.”

    —Cragin et al, 2007

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    Cragin, Melissa H., P. Bryan Heidorn,
    Carole L. Palmer, and Linda C. Smith.
    “An Educational Program on Data
    Curation.” In Science and Technology
    Section of the Annual American Library
    Association Conference, Vol. 25.
    Washington, DC, 2007.

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    usefulness
    interest
    critical terms:

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    Data curation
    for the humanities must engage with
    humanist ways of making knowledge

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    Some
    Definitions

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    Data

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    From the beginning,
    data was a rhetorical
    concept.
    Data means—and has meant for a very long time—that which is
    given prior to argument. As a consequence, the meaning of data
    must always shift with argumentative strategy and context. The
    rise of modern economics and natural science created new
    conditions of argument and new assumptions about facts and
    evidence.”

    — Daniel Rosenberg, 2014

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    Rosenberg, Daniel. “Data before the Fact.”
    In “Raw Data” Is an Oxymoron, edited by
    Lisa Gitelman, 2013.

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    Putting “data” in historical perspective means we can
    untangle the concept
    from techno-science
    and think about how it relates to
    argumentative strategy and
    context of a range of disciplines
    including the humanities.

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    Information in the role of
    evidence

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  16. The humanities

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    The disciplines that
    investigate the
    expressions of the
    human mind
    — Wilhelm Dilthey, 1883

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    By which are generally meant studies of:
    literature
    art
    music
    philosophy
    history

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    These studies may be
    empirical
    theoretical

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    theory*

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    Cultural Studies
    and more

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    study of cultural
    practices and their
    relationship with
    power”
    — from Rens Bod, 2014

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    Bod, Rens. A New History of the
    Humanities: The Search for Principles
    and Patterns from Antiquity to the
    Present, 2013.
    For more see:

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    It is useful to bring some of these
    humanities approaches
    to how we understand and practice
    data curation

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    inscription devices and
    media technology …
    but simultaneously to particular
    social, economic, and political
    orders on the other
    — Lenoir citing Derrida
    understood as linked to the content of
    science, literature, and philosophy on the
    one hand

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    Lenoir, Timothy. Inscribing Science:
    Scientific Texts and the Materiality of
    Communication. Stanford, Calif.:
    Stanford University Press, 1998.

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    become entrenched and
    articulate themselves
    in a wider field of epistemic practices and
    material cultures
    Objects of investigation
    including instruments,
    inscription devices, model
    organisms, and the floating
    theories and boundary concepts
    attached to them.”

    — Rheinberger, 1997

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    Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg. Toward a History of
    Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins
    in the Test Tube. Stanford, Calif.:
    Stanford University Press, 1997.

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    Data Curation
    as a shift in perspective
    from working on creating knowledge as
    researchers in some particular humanities
    discipline to working on the same endeavor
    from the perspective of the library or the digital
    humanities center, etc.

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    What can we
    see
    trace
    or
    from this perspective?

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    Digital
    Objects
    in the humanities

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    scholarly
    editions

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  35. http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/contents/frankenstein

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    models
    networks
    visualizations

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  38. http://orbis.stanford.edu/

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  40. http://www.poms.ac.uk/

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    thematic
    research
    collections

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  42. https://mbda.berry.edu/

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    new
    scholarly
    communication

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  44. http://mallhistory.org/

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  45. http://www.stampingamericanmemory.org/

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    These may come in the form of
    software
    text files
    images
    databases

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    stewardship, including preservation, of
    information in digital form is a shared
    concern

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    data curation must be
    concerned with
    the way objects of investigation function in
    particular epistemic communities
    In addition to this shared concern with digital preservation

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    usefulness
    interest
    critical terms:

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    Data Curation
    is stewardship of knowledge

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    Case Study

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  52. http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/trevormunoz/8358810

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  53. http://www.curatingmenus.org
    in collaboration with Katie Rawson

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  54. Thank You.
    Trevor Muñoz
    [email protected]
    trevormunoz
    Email:
    Twitter:

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    The humanities have their own
    ways of making knowledge
    To serve the humanities, data
    curation must engage humanist
    research practices
    Preservation of digital
    information is a shared concern

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