Humanities Research Data Management at Berkeley
What is Research Data Management?
Stewarding data throughout its lifecycle of usefulness
RDM models
Common RDM Questions in the Humanities
- Can I access a digital scholarly edition/ TEI/ XML/ .txt/ OCR version of this?
- Can I scrape this journal/ website/ database?
- I want to put my research online
- How do I license my research?
- I have research in this old file format and it won't open. What do I do?
Example:
The Knotted Line
Evan Bissel - the first artist-in-residence at the American Cultures Engaged Scholar Program at UC Berkeley (2013)
Knotted Line on the IA's Wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20150630052154/http://knottedline.com/tkl.html
What does RDM offer humanities scholars?
- Data Management Plan (DMP) assistance
- Best (or better) practices for active data
- A curated selection of tools & services
- A guide for selecting an appropriate repository
- Consulting
At Launch
In the future
- Training & workshops
- Integration with other data-centric campus units
- An RDM newsletter
Participation
- RDM library cohort 1
- Service Guide
- Instruction
- Copyright
- Electronic publishing
- Research ethics
- Grant writing
- Metrics.
Contact
wittenberg@berkeley.edu
Humanities Research Data Management
By Jamie Wittenberg
