Our deliverables these past two weeks have been very challenging to me. I really didn’t want to deliver them. But having gone through the process of creating a Work Plan and a Data Management Plan (DMP), I get it. It’s so much more fun having ideas and having your head in the clouds, but, again, I get it.
In my other class, we’ve been doing related work in reviewing other digital projects. To do so, we’ve been following a template put forth by Miriam Posner (see her video How Did They Make That), in which she asks: (1) What are the sources (or data)? (2) What did they do to them/how was the data processed? And (3) how is the project presented? I’m very glad to have watched this video before working on the DMP for this class because it helped me understand how vast a category “data” really is and to start thinking about it more expansively–beyond numbers and calculations.
Having now completed my first DMP, I have to believe future ones will be easier, or if not easier then at least feel more approachable. And I am optimistic this process will change how I write a proposal in the first place. With a better sense of the data I want/am able to collect, I think I will be able to start with stronger research questions.
It was also challenging thinking about how our group data will be stored and maintained–servers seem so far away and their capacity limitless. But I’m learning this is very far from true. So how long will our data be stored? We wrote 3 to 5 years, but in my heart I wrote for-ev-er.
[This entry was originally posted to DHUM 70002 Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices (Spring 2021) in Personal Blogs and tagged data management plan, mapping cemeteries, Personal Blog on March 9, 2021.]
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