Session: Teach – THATCamp Sydney 2013 http://sydney2013.thatcamp.org Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:22:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Cleaning Data http://sydney2013.thatcamp.org/2013/10/28/cleaning-data/ http://sydney2013.thatcamp.org/2013/10/28/cleaning-data/#comments Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:25:20 +0000 http://sydney2013.thatcamp.org/?p=244 Continue reading →]]>

Digital humanities data is generally messy. Sometimes it looks like the floor of a teenage bedroom. Before we can analyse the data we need to clean it up and organise it. There are many ways of doing this. One important tool to use is a spreadsheet.

In this session I will run through some basic techniques in Excel that are often used for cleaning up data. This session should be useful for those who are starting out in digital humanities.

It would be good if someone who is proficient with OpenRefine (formerly known as Google Refine) could share this session so participants can get a taste for that tool as well.

I”ve put some simple Excel tips in a document which you can access here.

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A handful of devicesFAIMS has just returned from the Aegean, after having collected some data with our new mobile tool. We propose an interactive workshop where we explore not only how the FAIMS App works, but general methodologies for collecting data “in the field”.

We also plan to have an interactive discussion on data structures for field data collection, a review of the data we collected, and a general discussion on the difficulties of technology adoption in the humanities. We invite other presenters and audience to this session.

Comment if you’re interested!

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Session Proposal

There have been two LODLAM international summits (2011, 2013) and a wide range of projects generating or reusing linked open data in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) and digital humanities realms. Would be great to get in a room and talk and share information about what to do and how to publish linked open data to the cloud or reuse data (from the cloud).

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There are some good examples to look into:

  • Linked Jazz – a digital humanities project run out of the Pratt Institute.
  • The WWI Collection – a digital library/archives project run out of University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries.
  • data.bnf.fr – the provision of collection metadata as linked open data by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  • data.europeana.eu – a pilot project to provide a subset of the Europeana collection metadata as linked open data.
  • Linking History in a Place – a project aggregating collection data related to Canberra led by Culture Victoria and developed by Tim Sherratt (Wragge Labs).

 

 

 

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