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Data management for the humanities

17-Jul-10

Oxford University has established a project for Supporting Data Management Infrastructure for the Humanities (SuDaMIH). The initiative is supported by funding from JISC.
The Sudamih project will:

DevelopĀ  services at Oxford for data management, curation and long-term preservation for selected humanities research activities
Address database support needs in the humanities, including support for specific [...]

Focusing on what really matters

01-Dec-08

In a short Educause Review article, Christine L Borgman describes several types of academic activity that are being profoundly influenced by information technologies:

information-intensive scholarship
data-intensive scholarship
distributed scholarship
collaborative scholarship
multidisciplinary scholarship

Collectively, these are known as e-scholarship practices. They are types of academic behavior. They are not descriptions of the tools or technologies used in that behavior.
If academic librarians [...]