How to tackle RDM in the Humanities
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Research data management (RDM) is a core aspect of scholarly work. Despite general standards and principles regarding RDM e.g., the FAIR-Principles, the management of research data can vary across different disciplines. Especially the Humanities with their heterogenous sub-areas have different requirements when it comes to the handling of data.
In the first half of this talk, Patrick will focus on domain-specific conditions concerning data types, formats, metadata and disciplinary standards within the Humanities.
In the second half, Patrick will address a Humanities-specific challenge, that is, the handling of websites, dynamic databases, data visualizations and digital scholarly editions, all of which can be subsumed under the category of living resources. All these resources have executable software code that needs to be curated and maintained in order for their long-term accessibility to be ensured.
Although living resources are a very common scholarly output, established and proven strategies for their sustainable hosting still do not exist. Considering all this, Patrick will discuss available approaches for handling living resources analyzing their limitations. Taking requirements of researchers into account, Patrick will plea for an orchestration of relevant stakeholders – funding institutions, data centers and libraries, as well as researchers – and for the necessity of raising awareness as far as their responsibilities in the context of handling living resources are concerned.
