Digital Data Curation

This article reconstructs the typical researcher-participant focus where the participants are doing for us instead we followed the participants’ lead in the construction of research. Using a qualitative literacy event case study as an example, we describe how participants unexpectedly co-constructed knowledge through a participant-led digital data collection. In this theoretical article, we provide an explanation of the original study, which used observations, semi-structured interviews, and home visits as a collective qualitative case study on parental participation in social literacy practices. The original investigation led to the important shift that occurred in participant-researcher roles. In this article, using an ethnographic perspective, we explain how unexpected digital data creations created by participants’ family members allowed for enhanced equity between researcher and participant through changing the research dynamic, hearing and seeing participant voice previously u...

The concept of data curation has been a well-known term for scholarly communities. The understanding of data curation itself is necessary for research institutes that manage any kinds of research data set. Yet, research institutions have already set their plan and management to ensure that research data management is going well and supports the objectives of the institutions. For that reason, this paper was made to evaluate the research data cycle and management at several research institutions in Indonesia. The purpose of this paper was also to observe and to analyze how the standards and system have been used at research institutions and how they were effective. Also, it is essential to know how institutions find the term data curation and how it links to the management of research data and its implication to research data. This study used phenomenological method on data curation and how it would affect the performances of research data. The result showed that vital aspects were identified both from the informants and the previous studies. They were the appropriate curation model, data curation regulations, finding problems at the institutions and knowing supported technology, and system for data curation implementation.

This petition argues that erotic comics are an important cultural record of the way in which diverse sexualities are understood and portrayed, and sexual fantasies explored. An Erotic Comics Anglophone Archive (ErotiCAA) will preserve these works for research by scholars in many different disciplines.

One of the biggest problems facing anyone researching pornography/erotica or comics, and therefore doubly so for anyone researching erotic/pornographic comics, is finding and gaining access to primary materials. So we have decided to have a go at establishing an archive in the UK to collect and catalogue English-language porn and erotic comics.

We intend to approach a number of libraries and research institutions to host and/or fund the archive. Persuading them to support us will be a lot easier if we an show that there is a need for this archive, so to help with that we’ve started this petition.

We’ve already got this kick-ass logo designed for us by Alison Lucy Stone and meetings set up with a couple of big libraries. Help us out by signing the petition? And if you’d like to be more involved, please tweet Dr Anna Madill @UKFujoshi or Dr Jude Roberts @tangendentalism - we’d love to hear from you!

Considerando o contexto de digitalização do mundo e das artes e as potencialidades do meio digital, este trabalho parte da noção de Curadoria Digital para discutir algumas acepções possíveis relacionadas ao termo, em especial práticas artísticas e os projetos curatoriais contemporâneos baseados em processos digitais voltados para a rede web. Realizou-se a leitura dos trabalhos de Paul (2006; 2009); Krysa (2006); Dietz (2010), Czegledy (2012) e Gonring (2015) para indicar e analisar alguns atributos que o termo “digital” fornece e agrega ao debate em torno dos procedimentos curatoriais, a saber: a imaterialidade, a seletividade/filtragem e a agência da Curadoria Digital. A partir de uma introdução geral aos assuntos tratados, o texto se divide em dois tópicos centrais: em um primeiro momento, na apresentação contemporânea do termo Curadoria, para então investigar os atributos indicados na utilização do “digital”. /

ENG: Considering the digitization context of the world and the arts and the potentialities of the digital medium, this paper took the concept of Digital Curation as a central plot to discuss some possible meanings related to the term, mainly within the horizont of contemporary artistic practices and curatorial projects based on digital processes aimed at Web network. Based on the works of Paul (2006; 2009); Krysa (2006); Dietz (2010), Czegledy (2012) and Gonring (2015), we indicate and analyze some attributes that the term “digital” provides and adds to the debate around curatorial procedures, namely: immateriality, selectivity / filtering and agency of the Digital Curator. We start with a general introduction direction to the subjects covered, and the text is made of two central topics: at first, a contemporary presentation of the term Curator, and then an investigation of the attributes indicated in the use of “digital”.

The long term care of collected and created data is an ethical obligation in the fields of archaeology and cultural heritage management. With the growing application of digital methodologies in these fields and the complexity of the resulting data, this task has become complicated. Digital data preservation firms have emerged since this methodological shift, but their policies—championing the democratization of academic data—may conflict with the legal obligations dictated by the countries where data originate. Scholars thus face the inevitable choice between one obligation and another, one ethical and one legal. While the amount of digital data grows and the solutions for their preservation remain fundamentally misaligned with research norms and project workflows, the digital dilemma places the integrity of data at risk of loss. This article addresses this dilemma by evaluating the existing data archival, data publication, and data preservation repositories and how, as solutions to the digital dilemma, they can be integrated into multiple workflows. I also propose new directions for archaeological associations in that they should establish a means of evaluation and approval for third party preservation firms managing the future of academic research prior to their inevitable ubiquity.

The paper tackles with the challenges and the opportunities to establish a training course for digital curators in an Italian university, namely the University of Turin. The authors give a broad perspective of the role of the digital curator who is  figure that adds to the technical, communicative, managerial and legal skills the ability to embed these skills in more complex cultural ecosystems, which regulate and define the
mechanisms of production and communication of the cultural
heritage.

Digital curation is the term applied to a set of interdisciplinary activities for collection, preservation, maintenance, and archiving of digital information and research data, in order to add value to the information and data throughout its lifecycle. The significance of digital curation to educational and learning research is that modern society has evolved from an era of information and content scarcity, to an era of content abundance. The challenge for researchers and

Purpose Public-funded research in Digital Humanities (DH) enhances institutional and individual research missions and contributes open data to a growing base of globally-networked knowledge. This case study on the Digging into Data 3 challenge (DID3) (2014-2016), an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative grant initiative, explores skills that faculty and students brought to projects and others they acquired and shared on collaborative teams. Design/methodology/approach Rooted in the naturalistic paradigm, this qualitative case study centers on semi-structured interviews with 53 participants on 11 of the 14 DID3 projects. Documentary evidence complements empirical evidence; analysis is constructivist and grounded. Findings Hailing from diverse academic research institutions, centers, and repositories, participants brought 20 types of discipline-based or interdisciplinary expertise to DID3 projects. But they reported acquiring or refining 27 other skills during their project work. While most are data-related, complementary programming, management, and analytical skills push disciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise toward new frontiers. Project-based learning and pedagogy function symbiotically; participants therefore advocate for aligning problem-solving skills with pedagogical objectives at home institutions to prepare for public-funded DH projects. A modified content analysis juxtaposes DID3 skills with those advanced in 23 recent DH syllabi to identify commonalities and gaps. Originality/value Pedagogy has an important yet under-researched and underdeveloped role in public-funded digital humanities.

Digital Antiquity (http://digitalantiquity.org) is a new organization dedicated to establishing an online digital repository of archaeological data and documents. Its primary goals are to expand dramatically access to the digital records of archaeological investigations and to ensure their long- term preservation. Through a web interface users worldwide will be able to discover and download data and documents relevant to their research. Users also will upload their own data and documents along with the metadata (the data about the data) to the repository, known as tDAR (the Digital Archaeological
Record), thereby making it possible for others to discover
and effectively use the uploaded information. The access provided to documents and databases will permit scholars to create and communicate knowledge of the long- term human past more effectively and to enhance the management and preservation of archaeological resources.

As constantes mudanças nas formas de organização tradicional da informação presentes em ambientes informacionais digitais são reflexos da incorporação das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TICs), como no caso das bibliotecas e repositórios digitais, que armazenam, preservam, disseminam e permitem o acesso a produção científica e intelectual agregando recursos que possibilitam o processo de construção do conhecimento, a partir da participação colaborativa aplicada em diferentes ambientes. Este trabalho é resultado de projeto de pesquisa conduzido na Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo e tem por objetivo analisar os avanços proporcionados pelo uso dos recursos computacionais aplicados à preservação e conservação da informação digital e a interdisciplinaridade do tema com seus desafios tecnológicos, capacitação profissional e investimento em infraestrutura de tecnologia da informação capaz de proporcionar à Biblioteca Digital a atuação em garantir o acesso e a disponibilidade da informação. A metodologia
utilizada neste estudo foi a revisão sistemática da literatura e dos principais autores que investigam o tema preservação e conservação de acervo. Como resultado principal da pesquisa pode-se afirmar que a preservação digital consiste na capacidade de garantir que a informação permaneça acessível, interpretável e autêntica, permitindo a sua transferência para gerações futuras.

is article reconstructs the typical researcher-participant focus - where the participants are doing for us - instead we followed the participants’ lead in the construction of research. Using a qualitative literacy event case study as an example, we describe how participants unexpectedly co-constructed knowledge through a participant-led digital data collection. In this theoretical article, we provide an explanation of the original study, which used observations, semi-structured interviews, and home visits as a collective qualitative case study on parental participation in social literacy practices.  The original investigation led to the important shift that occurred in participant-researcher roles. In this article, using an ethnographic perspective, we explain how unexpected digital data creations created by participants’ family members allowed for enhanced equity between researcher and participant through changing the research dynamic, hearing and seeing participant voice previously unavailable. Situated within socio-cultural construction and the concept of Diderot’s concept of the fourth wall (the invisible barrier between audience and actor), we explain how these new insights provide opportunities for other qualitative researchers to enhance their practices through an ontological shift,  intentionally “breaking the fourth wall of research” to integrate participant co-construction of knowledge

Digital curation in cultural heritage organizations is becoming more and more established as a practice as empirical research into tools, techniques, skills, standards and best practices in particular contexts emerge. Curators typically tackle technical obsolescence, ignorance of good practices, uncertainty over appropriate infrastructure as well as lack of resources. Digital curation activities are complex processes that involve diverse skills and techniques, software tools and systems, and a range of professional and paraprofessional practices.
The lack of acknowledged models opens the way to the usage of algorithmic approaches as an alternative/support/aid to human curation, especially as personal filters and as generators of public experiences realized through machine learning and virtual reality tools. However, the relationship of curation with materials and their digital counterparts lacks an encompassing effective framework. Here, we claim that an encompassing framework of digital curation is strongly needed: this would provide and open to the development of software environments in support. It addresses all the phases that concern the digital curation activities, as well as broader technological factors impacting digital curation practice. Therefore, this research, on the one hand, formulates a definition of digital curation and then discusses the involved activities and the roles and responsibilities of the digital curators; on the other hand, it unpacks the notions of semantic encoding and argues for the importance of the data lifecycle and of metadata to digital curation. Finally, it addresses researcher behaviours and the ways in which multidisciplinarity, collective practice, and collaboration shape the sharing and reuse of data in the context of the knowledge transfer.  In developing or following an appropriate digital curation workflow, designers should consider issues such as scope (what services will be offered and to which audiences), best user experience practices or community outreach or both, and model’s ability to represent work practices. The focus of the research will be on digital curation tools that are interactive, pervasive, multimodal, physical and social for further research on examining how we can better map human perceptions and experiences of the built environment. Although this is a mainly survey-type investigation, this research will also draw on other disciplines, including design, cultural heritage, science, and technology. It aims to surface similarities and differences in digital curation activities, as well as broader technological factors impacting digital curation practice.

This paper describes a project that a team of researchers from Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics jointly undertook with the Federal Aviation Administration’s W. J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey to develop requirements and a prototype for an envisioned data curation and sharing repository. The desired repository is to be OAIS-compliant, and capable of allowing FAA scientific researchers across various geographical locations to share and reuse their own and each others’ data. An action research methodology was used, and this methodology allowed the project team to engage in a series of co-educational experiences that led to the development of a negotiated and evolving understanding of requirements. The process of co-teaching and co-learning played a key role in allowing a concrete goal and plan to emerge from communication breakdowns.

Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org) is an on-line and multilingual encyclopaedia that can be interactively updated by any user. It has become an increasingly popular and comprehensive source of up-to-date information. All museums should consider ensuring that they have an entry for informational and (indirectly) promotional purposes. As a minimum, the entry should include location information, a brief overview, correct categorization within Wikipedia and a link to the museum's Web site. A more comprehensive entry could include further, more detailed information on the museum's history, collections, organization, one or more photographs, etc. It should be noted that Wikipedia entries are intended to provide an independent and informational view, so direct promotional material should be avoided and used only on the museum's own Web site. An entry on Wikipedia can help by improving search engine rankings (especially Google), directing Web users to a museum Web site, etc.

Our demonstration at MW2006 is intended to give advice to museums on how to create an initial Wikipedia entry if there is none for the museum in question and how to improve the entry if one exists already. A tour of the English-language Wikipedia museums section (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Museums) can also be provided. It may even be possible to create and update entries during the demonstration itself.

Keywords: On-line encyclopaedia, Web searching, Museum directory, Information dissemination, Wikipedia

A collaboration between the Texas Advanced Computing Center
and the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of
Texas at Austin has resulted in the development of strategies and a
cyberinfrastructure model for the management and preservation of
1) primary archaeological data, 2) the process history generated
as those data are analyzed, manipulated, and interpreted, and 3)
the final interpretive results. This project draws on the concept of
reflexive archaeology to map the lifecycle of archaeological
research, and the evolving archive that such research creates, to
provide a richer view of both data and process that will make it
easier for the data to be reused and to evaluate the interpretations.

El modelo teórico de Franco Moretti fundamentado en la distant reading no es solo útil para reflexionar acerca del papel desempeñado por el crítico en la era de los algoritmos y el futuro de la investigación filológica con el auge del posthumanismo, sino además para gestionar la información recabada y realizar un análisis acelerado y sintético del fenómeno literario por medio de la abstracción de datos de alto volumen (big data). Así pues, sobre la base de los planteamientos de Moretti, se propone en este trabajo una lectura distante del panorama de edición de la narrativa española en el año 2019 a través de las gráficas elaboradas ex profeso con los datos obtenidos durante la pesquisa, a fin de ofrecer una visión general de su estado actual en términos de volumen de edición, programación anual de las publicaciones y distribución de los autores según el lugar y año de nacimiento, así como su género.

Franco Moretti’s theoretical model based on the distant reading not only is useful to think about the role played by the critic in the age of the algorithms and the future of the philological research with the rise of the Post-humanism, but also to manage the collected information and carry out an accelerated and synthetic analysis about the literary phenomenon by means of the massive data sets abstraction (big data). Consequently, in the light of Moretti’s approach, in this work we address a distant reading of the Spanish narrative’s edition panorama in the year 2019. Through the graphs generated ex professo from the data gathered during the inquiry, this article aims to bring out a general vision upon the current situation of the Spanish narrative in terms of the number of literary works edited in 2019, the yearly publishing plan and the authors distribution according to the place and the year of birth, as well as their gender.

This article explores the flows and frictions of children's data in the digital age, and how datafication becomes another way of knowing and governing children. There is an urgent need to better understand such digital orientations, who controls them, and how children's agency becomes enabled and constrained. In this article, we argue that a child rights framework operates to surface the tensions and stumbling blocks at play in the ostensibly seamless circulation of children's data through the socio-technical assemblages of corporate, government and university organisations. Smooth flows of data become problematised when we explore children's data journeys and associated frictions with data. This demonstrates the importance of moving beyond existing attempts to better steer children and their data, towards the much more difficult role of co-curating the social, spatial and material supports required to enhance their agency in the digital age.

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is a platform for interdisciplinary and computational research in Coptic texts and linguistics. The purpose of this project was to research and implement a system of stable identification for the texts and linguistic data objects in Coptic SCRIPTORIUM to facilitate their citation and reuse. We began the project with a preferred solution, the Canonical Text Services URN model, which we validated for suitability for the corpus and compared it to other approaches, including HTTP URLs and Handles. The process of applying the CTS model to Coptic SCRIPTORIUM required an in-depth analysis that took into account the domain-specific scholarly research and citation practices, the structure of the textual data, and the data management workflow. Overview Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (SCRIPTORIUM) is a platform for interdisciplinary and computational research in Cop-tic linguistics, literature, and history. The goal of this research project was to investigate, decide upon and implement a system of stable identification for the texts and research objects in SCRIPTORIUM in order facilitate their citation and reuse. SCRIPTORIUM began when two scholars from different disciplines (Amir Zeldes in Linguistics and Caroline T. Schroeder in Religious Studies) identified a shared need for digitized corpora of Coptic texts. The Coptic language was the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language family, in use from late antique to Byzantine periods of Egyptian history. Due to Egypt's dry climate, Coptic sources important to a number of academic disciplines have survived. Linguists conducting computational and statistical research into language as well as historians, religious studies scholars, and philologists seeking to query and investigate topics and terminology across large sets of primary sources would find a digital corpus annotated consistently according to recognized standards useful. Through SCRIPTORIUM, Zeldes and Schroeder began digitizing primarily Coptic literary texts (such as formal letters, sermons, gnomic sayings, and monastic rules) composed primarily by monks of the fourth through sixth centuries and copied by later scribes through approximately the twelfth century. In addition, SCRIPTORIUM has developed tools and standards for annotating Coptic literature for linguistic, paleographical, and historical information, as well as an online digital environment for reading and querying the texts, translations, and annotations. Identifiers for texts, annotations, and other features are necessary. Our basic requirements for the SCRIPTORIUM data identifiers were that they be stable, location and technology independent, and globally unique. We wanted an identifier scheme that would outlast any particular delivery mechanism, such as the web, but also required that the identifiers be resolvable in the context of the systems that do exist today. In particular, the SCRIPTORIUM data must be able to be cited as linked data on the web according to the principles of " 5 Star Linked Data. " (Berners-Lee, 2006) Our analysis took into account the specifics of the SCRIPTORIUM data resources and its current data production and management practices as well as the domain-specific scholarly practices of citation of the texts in the SCRIPTORIUM corpus.

Almost all researchers collect and preserve metadata, although doing so is often seen as a burden. However, when that metadata can be, and is, used actively during an investigation or creative process, the benefits become apparent instantly. Active use can arise in various ways, several of which are being investigated by the CREAM project, which was funded by Jisc as part of their Research Data Spring initiative. CREAM stands for Collaboration for Research Enhancement by Active use of Metadata and the project is exploring the concept through understanding the active use of metadata by the partners in the collaboration. This paper explains what it means to use metadata actively and describes how the CREAM project characterises active use by developing use cases that involve documenting the key decision points during a process. Well-documented processes are accordingly more transparent, reproducible, and reusable.

As constantes mudanças nas formas de organização tradicional da informação presentes em ambientes informacionais digitais são reflexos da incorporação das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TICs), como no caso das bibliotecas e repositórios digitais, que armazenam, preservam, disseminam e permitem o acesso a produção científica e intelectual agregando recursos que possibilitam o processo de construção do conhecimento, a partir da participação colaborativa aplicada em diferentes ambientes. Este trabalho é resultado de projeto de pesquisa conduzido na Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo e tem por objetivo analisar os avanços proporcionados pelo uso dos recursos computacionais aplicados à preservação e conservação da informação digital e a interdisciplinaridade do tema com seus desafios tecnológicos, capacitação profissional e investimento em infraestrutura de tecnologia da informação capaz de proporcionar à Biblioteca Digital a atuação em garantir o acesso e a disponibilidade da informação. A metodologia utilizada neste estudo foi a revisão sistemática da literatura e dos principais autores que investigam o tema preservação e conservação de acervo. Como resultado principal da pesquisa pode-se afirmar que a preservação digital consiste na capacidade de garantir que a informação permaneça acessível, interpretável e autêntica, permitindo a sua transferência para gerações futuras.

PALAVRAS CHAVE: INFORMAÇÃO. DOCUMENTO DIGITAL. PRESERVAÇÃO E CONSERVAÇÃO DE DOCUMENTO. BIBLIOTECA DIGITAL. GESTÃO DE DISPOSITIVOS.

KEYWORDS: INFORMATION. DIGITAL DOCUMENT. PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION OF DOCUMENT. DIGITAL LIBRARY. SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT.

This article describes a project that a team of researchers from Drexel University's College of Computing and Informatics jointly undertook with the Federal Aviation Administration's W. J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to develop requirements and a prototype for a data curation repository. The repository is to be OAIS-compliant and capable of allowing FAA scientific researchers across various geographical locations to share and reuse data. An action research methodology was used, which allowed the project team to engage in a series of colearning experiences that led to a negotiated and evolving understanding of requirements. The process of colearning played a key role in allowing a concrete goal and plan to emerge from communication breakdowns.

The integration of heterogeneous data in varying formats and from diverse communities requires an improved understanding of the concept of a dataset, and of key related concepts, such as format, encoding, and version. Ultimately, a normative formal framework of such concepts will be needed to support the effective curation, integration, and use of shared multi-disciplinary scientific data. To prepare for the development of this framework we reviewed the definitions of dataset found in technical documentation and ...

Capturing, uploading, and presenting social media content online have become the standard way for people to share their experiences with friends, family members, and others. In this paper, we describe our effort to extract, aggregate, and visualize, in a smartphone app, real-time and historical hyperlocal social media discussions and photos created at a regional arts festival that attracted over 100,000 visitors over a period of 5 days. Participants reported that the resulting content enriched their festival experience, and that it helped to create a social scaffold encouraging them to further engage and interact with others both physically and virtually through sharing even more user-contributed content.

These days everyone is “connected” (to the internet, that is) and we continuously exchange huge quantities of data that – on a global level – increase at a rate faster than the net’s ability to handle it. Nonetheless almost nobody wonders: “How much longer can the net continue to absorb it all?” Well, we’ve almost reached saturation point.