Is your Research Future Proof? Data Management Techniques & Tools for Digital Historians – Hands-on Workshop #dhiha8

When?: June 17, 2019, 14h00-17h45
Where? Institut historique allemand Paris
Registration and information: event@dhi-paris.fr
Conference: Teaching History in the Digital Age – international perspectives #dhiha8

Due to the digital transformation of research practices, for Historians, activities and issues around planning, organizing, storing, and sharing data and other research results and products (e.g. digitized source materials, analysis results, web applications) play an increasing role. During this workshop, the participants will acquire knowledge and skills that will enable them to draft their own executable research data management plan, using the tool RDMO – Research Data Management Organizer.

Knowledge and skills acquired in this workshop, will support the participants in the production of reusable, machine-readable data, a key prerequisite for conducting effective and sustainable projects adhering the FAIR (Findable, Reusable, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles as promoted by the European Commission and national funding agencies within the framework of Open Science/Open Scholarship.

Workshop Topics:

·       Theoretical reflections on the role of data within humanities research and cultural heritage studies,

·       Opportunities and challenges of eHumanities and eResearch,

·       Implementation of the FAIR principles and relevant standards,

·       Basics of Data Management Planning,

·       Tools and further information resources for Data Management.

Participants should bring their own laptop. No special previous knowledge or programming skills are required.

About the trainer: 

Ulrike Wuttke (Doctor of Literature, Universiteit Gent 2012, wuttke@fh-potsdam.de, Twitter @UWuttke) is a medievalist and textual scholar by training. Her professional activities focus on training and personal counselling on data management, open science and Digital Humanities. In 2017 she started working at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Department of Information Sciences, she joined the RDMO-Team in March 2019.

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Conference: Teaching History in the Digital Age – international perspectives #dhiha8: https://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/5901

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