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BAD(Digital)
Humanities Proposal(and how to avoid it)
TheCanonically
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Hey, Mellon.
Why don’t you
have a website
linking to all the
digital projects
you’ve funded?
Chris Mackie
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We can’t.
Almost all of
them are gone
without a trace.
Chris Mackie
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WHYmight that be?
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No planning for
post-Mellon
existence.
No discussion
with librarians or
technologists.
Chris Mackie
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BAD(Digital)
Humanities Proposal
TheCanonically
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Photo: “book shelf project 2 ~ striatic {notes},” hobvias sudoneighm, http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/730978/, CC-BY
Hey, Mellon.
We’ve got stuff!
Stuff somebody
cares about. Somewhere.
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that we
want to
Photo: “of an evening,” Bill Tozier, http://www.flickr.com/photos/vaguery/3498219743/, CC-BY
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We want it
to be
Photo: “Open,” John Martinez Pavliga, http://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualsugar/316200555/, CC-BY
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except
is some kind of
commie plot
Photo: “Open,” John Martinez Pavliga, http://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualsugar/316200555/, CC-BY
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but we hear
you like that kind
of thing, so...
Photo: “Open,” John Martinez Pavliga, http://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualsugar/316200555/, CC-BY
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We’ll do this a
whole new way!
Because every
wheel needs
reinventing!
Photo: “Black Opel / Vauxhall Astra G Tuning by WillVision,” WillVision Photography, http://www.flickr.com/photos/willvision/2108844874/, CC-BY
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So fork it over,
Mellon!
Photo: “Money Hand Holding Bankroll Girls February 08, 20117,” Steven Depolo, http://www.flickr.com/photos/10506540@N07/5437288053/, CC-BY
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WHAT’Swrong
with this picture?
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Tales of Terror!• I will pass out stories about poor data management.
• Videos on DHWI wiki: http://mith.umd.edu/dhwiwiki/
• Your job: WHAT WENT WRONG?
• Assess and report out (4 minutes max):• What are/were the data at issue?
• What went wrong (or could go wrong) with the data-handling?
• What are the consequences of the poor data-handling to the research? The researcher?
• Could this problem have been avoided? How?
• What kind(s) of humanist research could this problem happen to?
• More horror stories• http://pinboard.in/u:dsalo/t:horrorstories