Resources

• Digitization Workflow: Talk with Sorin Marti, a Data Steward's Perspective

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  In this podcast, produced by virtualculture.ch, sociologist Jane Haller, Digitales Schaudepot president, is conversing with Sorin Marti, a data steward in the Research Infrastructure Support Entity (RISE) at the University of Basel to discuss aspects of data management for public consumption.

• Digitization Workflow: Talk with Joana Meier, a Digital Humanities Student's perspective

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  What does "curating data stories" mean from a technical and academic perspective? This podcast from the curiositas5.0 project features a discussion between Jane Haller and Joana Meier about experimenting with digital exhibitions.

• Digitization Workflow: Talk with Esaù Dozio, a Curator's View

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  In this podcast, produced by virturalculture.ch, Jane Haller, a sociologist, digital project manager, and president of the Digitales Schaudepot, is in conversation with Esaù Dozio, a curator at the Antikenmuseum Basel. Within their chat, they discuss the process of selecting items for special exhibitions, and the mistakes and challenges that can arise.

• Data and Databases: Data Ethics

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  When producing and processing humanities data, very often deal with information about people – unlike in for example physics or chemistry, the primary subjects of our research may be thinking, feeling beings, and that means that we have significant ethical and moral considerations in how we go about our data projects. This resource will detail methods and techniques developed to create and process datasets without compromising ethics.

• Innovations for a Unified Digital Collection - The Sloane Lab Journey

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  This Friday Frontiers presentation provides a rich insight to the design and development of the University College London's Sloane Lab knowledge base, the modelling choices, and priorities in relation to semantics and vocabularies and the range of challenges addressed in the process of aggregation in terms of data disparity, integration facility, conflicting information and inconsistency, uncertainty and data absence.

• Data and Databases: Data Management and Storage

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  The data you generate in humanities and social science projects may well need longer term storage beyond the scope of your own research project. Medium to long term data storage is vital for allowing other scholars to examine and test your data and models, and ensuring open access to your data is an increasingly prominent issue. This resource will guide you through a thoughtful discussion of Data Management and Storage.

• The 6th Digital History in Sweden Conference: Unboxing Digital Methods, Practices and Public Engagement

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  In the following talks, selected from the 6th Digital History in Sweden Conference, the learner will gain new perspectives on the use of AI and citizen science in digitization and digital history projects. In addition, the learner will gain insight into the creation and care of digital archives applying postcolonial perspectives.

• Git Version Control via Command Line

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  This article introduces the main concepts in Git and basic Git commands that can be used from the command line. Understanding these commands will help you with using Git in a code editor, the Git desktop and other options, like GitHub online.

• Git: VS Code

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  Getting access to the data on GitLab is different on all three operating systems. This post shows how to use the code editor VS Code with its graphical user interface for working collaboratively in Git with Windows, Mac and Linux.

• Evaluation of Digital Heritage Experiences

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  This resource discusses various approaches and methods to evaluate digital or hybrid interactive experiences, which support the interpretation of heritage assets. The resource also aims to support researchers’ and practitioners’ practical understanding of evaluation methods and tools to capture audiences’ engagement with media and explore technology impact.

• Creating Interactive Visualizations with Plotly

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  This lesson demonstrates how to create interactive data visualizations in Python with Plotly’s open-source graphing libraries using materials from the Historical Violence Database.

• Git Collaboration

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  This short course will help learners understand how to work with Git in a collaborative setting such as teamwork or group projects, and how to make use of platforms like GitHub or GitLab to complete that work.