Are the Humanities Ready for Data Sharing?

Ruediger, Dylan; MacDougall, Ruby

doi:10.18665/sr.318526

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“…By the early 1990s, the Unicode Standard was established and rapidly adopted to represent alphabets and character sets in modern languages, and later in ancient languages (Unicode Consortium, 2024). While text produced by modern computer systems is rendered in Unicode, encoding text in TEI for purposes of textual analysis remains labor intensive (Poole & Garwood, 2020;Ruediger & MacDougall, 2023). Scholars in the humanities and social sciences who create or use textual materials in their research tend to be familiar with TEI, Unicode, and associated tools for analysis and interoperability.…”

Section: Technical Aspects Of Methods Distance -Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What data release means, and why it matters: an interview with Prof. Christine Borgman

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Stanford University is going through the difficult and highly fraught process of figuring out a plan for the library of the future. Coming on the heels of the "bookless library," touted as the vision for a new engineering library, a preliminary proposal in 2007 to tear down the seismically unsafe Meyer Library and digitize and house off campus most of its 600,000 volumes produced a cry of protest. The utopian ideal, imposed from above, might have met with less resistance had faculty members been involved in the planning from the start. But as charged responses mounted, the administration announced it would delay razing the library. Last fall a faculty committee of the Academic Council proposed its own plan for rethinking the library to the Faculty Senate, which has accepted it with a call for further rethinking by various university groups of how to put the plan into effect.The new faculty plan is characterized by a key shift in emphasis that is both less charged and more pointed. Rather than envision a "library of the future," it discusses the "future of the library," stressing continuity with an old entity rather than the creation of something brand-new. The distinction exposes what is at stake.

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Section: Technical Aspects Of Methods Distance -Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%