Hey #DigitalHumanities folks!
My colleagues and I are putting digital curation guidelines and best practices together to support information science oriented digital research projects.
Could y’all share your documentation for project digital curation? Library, archives, and software devs and admins. I’m mainly looking at you cos documentation and build protocols and procedures usually come from your side of the DH house
Creative Informatics is a research and development programme based in Edinburgh, which aims to bring the city’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together. We are a collaboration between University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, Creative Edinburgh and CodeBase. The Creative Informatics programme is in part funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Projects funded by the AHRC and other UKRI funding bodies are required to submit Data Management Plans that describe the types of data that they will gather and use, and how they will manage this data in line both with current data legislation and with their institution’s data management policies. Because the Creative Informatics programme includes two interrelated but distinct strands of work – the academic research strand and the administrative strand – that at times manage data in different ways, we have chosen to write two separate Data Management Plans, one for each strand. This document comprises the two Data Management Plans that we have submitted to the AHRC and the University of Edinburgh’s Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact (RKEI) office. We are sharing this document as an exemplar, and in the interests of transparency for all those we work with directly, as collaborators and as research participants. We would like to note that the two Data Management Plans included here are living documents, subject to at least annual review, and may evolve along with legislation changes or changes to the Creative Informatics programme structure. If substantial changes are made to the Data Management Plans in this document, new versions may be published to make those changes transparent.
The final report product of an investigation into data curation requirements with data custodians and Humanities Arts and Social Science (HASS) researchers. The Tinker (HASS DEVL) Project began with a scoping study, identifying existing frameworks and principles, and developing a high-level Data Curation Framework to test with experts around Australia. Also attached is an excerpt of a deeper case study into two significant research collections which informed and complimented the DCF. Elements of this work became the focus for round table discussions, held in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide. These invaluable sessions provided an opportunity to talk about the concept of "data curation", existing frameworks, and gaps in existing resources. The discussions also aimed to find out more about what a HASS data curation framework contains, and how it should be represented to potential users. Findings from the workshops are available here. Building on data curation capability for HASS the activity was viewed as an ongoing process. These first steps are considered foundations to be continued, that can aid in connecting existing resources through key data curation concepts, to provide case studies and other material to help make collections of data more usable, interoperable, and sustainable. The DCF aims to provide: • A clear common language: - shared understanding between collaborators/custodians - to work through the challenges associated with data curation - consistent means for describing curation that has been applied - conceptual model to understand tools, standards, systems, processes to improve DC - conceptual lens to explore gaps - towards HASS data increasingly accessible, understandable, and usable over time • Specifically for HASS researchers, research teams, and other custodians responsible – for the curation of reference datasets, of current or ongoing value. • To help researchers and data custodians understand, evaluate, and apply these existing standards and policies more effectively.
Kate Thornhill
Melissa Terras
Peter Neish
UMaine Digital Curation