This course provides students with theoretical and practical experience in collecting, processing, archiving, and publishing humanities data (images, video, sound, text, maps, etc.) gathered from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs). With the goal of building thematic digital collections as researchers, students will learn digital methodologies focusing on the technical, legal, ethical, and social aspects of working with humanities research data throughout its curation lifecycle. This includes hands-on experience finding, assessing, organizing, and reformatting data; creating and remediating descriptive metadata; evaluating and determining copyright and licensing; writing a data management plan using the standards set by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and sharing thematic research digital collections using GitHub and the open- source platform CollectionBuilder. (Taken from syllabus)
- Elena Perez, Project Manager
- Mattie Lucero, Collection Development Manager
- Cecelia Staggs, Object Preservation Manager
- Isabelle Dana, Metadata Manager
The Oregon Forestry Industry: Equipment and lifestyle of laborers in the 19th and 20th centuries
Our digital collection thematic research topic is focused on the forestry industry in Oregon in the 19th and 20th centuries. We chose this topic because forestry is an important part of Oregon’s history and economy, as the state is still one of the top producers of lumber in the United States today. This collection focuses on the workers who help run this industry, with photographs depicting men at work, maps of worker camp sites, as well as the tools and machinery they used to process and transport lumber. By collecting these digital objects together, we hope that viewers can get a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of loggers and forestry workers in Oregon.
The repository's CollectionBuilder website can be visited here.
The Data Management Plan (DMP) explains the goal of this project, the roles of participants, what data will be used and how it will be used in the project. It includes the data types and formats, legal and ethical considerations, data location and period of preservation, file naming standard, and a link to the project's metadata application profile
The project's DMP can be viewed here.