Are you looking for ways to apply your research question to a collection of newspapers, photographs, letters, or other archival materials? Have you ever thought a spreadsheet or database might help your research?
In this workshop, participants will learn how to organize archival data around their research question(s) by drawing on data feminism* principles to address ethical concerns, such as recognizing and addressing source biases, creating an intentional data collection and structuring practice, and making labor and decision-making in data collection and structuring visible. We will also attend to common humanities data challenges, including consistency, uncertainty, ambiguity, and scale. We will consider several examples and will collaborate in a hands-on exercise creating a data structure for archival sources. Participants will also learn how to match data structures to visualization types.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to
Participants will have the opportunity to join a follow up session in which they can bring their own data for workshopping based on the principles learned in this session:
*Data feminism scholarship we will be drawing from includes the Feminist Data Manifest-No and Data Feminism.
Priority will be given to faculty & graduate students in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences.
This workshop will be facilitated by Hannah Jacobs, Digital Humanities Consultant with Duke Libraries.
Location: Music Library Seminar Room, Biddle Music Building, East Campus
Participation: General discussion, structured activity, and time for questions.
