Schedule

Workshops provide a strong introductory grounding in data curation concepts and practices, focusing on the special issues and challenges of data curation in the digital humanities.

Workshop #3 — Boston, MA

All workshop sessions will be held in Snell Library, Room 421.

Day One

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

9:30 am – 9:45 Welcome
9:45 – 10:30 Introduction to Humanities Data Curation: Conceptual Frameworks [slides]
10:30 – 11:00 Participant Introductions
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 am – 12:30 pm Mapping the Landscape — What Does Data Curation Encompass?
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:15 Risk management and auditing [slides]
3:15 – 4:00 Peer Reviewing Data Management Plans
4:00 – 4:15 Break
4:15 – 5:30 Customizing and Improving Plans for Data
5:30 – 7:00 pm Software Install-a-thon & Social Hour

Day Two

Thursday, May 1, 2014

9:00 – 10:15 Significant Properties
Curating Data from New York Public Library's "What's On the Menu" Project
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 am – 12:30 pm Data Curation Case Study
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 2:30 Case study debrief
2:30 – 3:45 Introduction to Repositories for the Arts & Humanities
3:45 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 6:00 Hands-on exercise with repository systems & Open Refine
7:15 pm No-host dinner at a local restaurant

Day Three

Friday, May 2, 2014

9:00 am – 9:30 Nature of Digital Objects
9:30 – 10:15 Hands-on exercise: Digital Object Anatomy
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:45 Metadata & Linked Data
11:45 am – 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 – 2:00 Collections as Curation Tools
2:00 – 3:15 Data & the Law
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:30 Strategies for Action: Sharing What's Working
4:30 – 5:00 pm Wrap-up

Workshop #2 — College Park, MD

All workshop sessions will be held at MITH (0301 Hornbake Library — Lower Level), in the Conference Room.

Day One

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

9:00 am – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 10:00 Introduction to Humanities Data Curation: Conceptual Frameworks [slides]
10:00 – 10:30 Participant Introductions
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 Inventorying the arsenal of data curation concerns
Data management plans, data curation profiles, data practices vocabularies
12:00 pm – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:45 Risk management and auditing [slides]
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 4:30 Data Personae
4:30 – 5:00 Self-profiling
5:00 – 5:30 Reflective Discussion: Customizing data curation planning instruments
5:30 – 7:00 pm Happy Hour and software installation troubleshooting

Day Two

Thursday, October 17, 2013

9:00 am – 9:30 Understanding the nature of digital objects [slides]
9:30 – 10:15 Significant Properties
Curating Data from New York Public Library's "What's On the Menu" Project
10:15 – 10:45 Case study preparation: Refining data curation interview instruments for planning
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 am – 12:15 pm Data Curation Case Study:
Kari Kraus
Associate Professor, College of Information Studies and Department of English
University of Maryland
12:15 – 1:45 Lunch
1:45 – 2:15 Case study debrief
2:15 – 3:30 Introduction to Repositories for the Arts & Humanities [slides]
3:30 – 3:45 Break
3:45 – 4:30 Interacting with repository systems, part one: Depositing items is describing items
4:30 – 5:00 Metadata (is a System) [slides]
5:00 – 5:30 Normalizing metadata with Open Refine
6:30 pm No-host dinner at a local restaurant

Day Three

Friday, October 18, 2013

9:00 am – 10:30 Interacting with repository systems, part two: Finding things
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:15 Collections are Curation Tools [slides]
11:15am – 12:00 pm Minimum Viable Curation
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:45 Data and the Law
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 4:30 Last questions and advanced topics
4:30 – 4:45 Wrap-up
4:45 – 5:30 Opportunity for individual consultations [optional]

Workshop #1 — Champaign, IL

All workshop sessions will be held in the GSLIS Building (501 East Daniel Street, Champaign), Room 131.

Day One

Monday, June 24, 2013

9:00 am – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 9:30 Carole Palmer, Digital Humanities Data Curation in the Data Curation Education Program (DCEP) context
9:30 – 10:00 Introduction to Humanities Data Curation, Part 1 [slides]
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:00 Introduction to Humanities Data Curation, Part 2 [slides]
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Participant Introductions
Exercise: Data curation profiles
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 Social Dimensions of Data Curation [slides]
3:00 – 5:00 Data Management and Data Management Planning
Exercise: Data Management Planning Tools
5:15 – 7:00 pm Reception & Social Hour (sponsored by CIRSS)

Day Two

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

9:00 am – 10:00 Nature of data and digital objects [slides]
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:30 Tour of Data Curation Systems and Platforms [slides]
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Data Curation Case Study: Ted Underwood
Associate Professor of English
University of Illinois
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 pm Case Study Problem Solving and Discussion
3:30 – 3:45 Break
3:45 – 5:00 pm The Role of Collections [slides]
Exercise: Collection Evaluation

Day Three

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

9:00 am – 11:00 Data Curation Hands-on Practice
Curating Data from New York Public Library's "What's On the Menu" Project
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:30 Data and the Law [slides]
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 Risk assessment & Mitigation, Sustainability [slides]
3:30 – 4:00 What to do next and how to stay current
4:00 – 5:00 Wrap up and final questions
6:00 – 8:00 Happy Hour at Esquire Lounge [optional]