Understand what data curation means for the humanities.

Humanists have data and they need data skills. As the materials and analytical practices of research become increasingly digital, the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of information science, librarianship, and archival science will become ever more vital to humanists and to anyone working with cultural heritage.

What humanists need to know for purposeful work with data

Data curation involves fluency with a variety of topics including disciplinary research cultures, social patterns of information sharing, data economies, syntax and semantics of descriptive standards, metadata formats, and the technical characteristics of digital data.

Digital Humanities Data Curation will help make sense of these new elements of humanities research and librarianship.