Reanimating Data: Experiments with People, Places and Archives
Are you interested in the possibilities of archiving qualitative research datasets and making them available for re-use? Do you want to know how such archives can be used in teaching, in further research and in developing and engaging with other communities of users?
Join us for this one-day workshop where we launch a digital archive of qualitative interviews created using Omeka, a free open source content management system which is excellent for small (and not so small) qualitative projects.
The Women Risk and Aids Project (WRAP) was a landmark ESRC-funded study which ran from 1988-1990 and involved interviews with young women from across Manchester and London about sexual health and sexual practices. Working with the participatory archival ethos of Feminist Webs, a contemporary network of feminist youth workers, community artists, academics and activists, engage with us in exploring creative methods for developing new communities of users, including researchers, students and a new generation of girls and youth workers across youth groups in Manchester.
SCHEDULE:
10:00 - Coffee
10:15 - Welcome and introduction to Re-animating Data: experiments with people, places and archives
10:30 - 11.30 - Genealogies of archiving and re-using qualitive data
- In conversation with Louise Corti, Associate Director, UK Data Archive and Associate Director and Director of Collections Development and Data Publishing, UKDA
11:30 - 12:00 - DIY academic archiving
- Launch and demonstration of archive using Omeka, including open educational resources: ‘Recontextualising data: Queering the 80s’
12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch
13:00 - Experiments in curation: archiving as knowledge, practice and pedagogy
13:30 - 14:30 - Beyond collecting and reusing to happenings: Encounters in youth groups
14:30 - 15:00 - Response from Professor Emma Renold, Professor of Childhood Studies, University of Cardiff
15:00 - Coffee
15:00 - 15:30 - Working with sound: Wormholes and earworms
15:30 - 16:00 - Q&A
- For any queries contact: niamh.moore@ed.ac.uk
- For more information about the Reanimating Data project see: http://reanimatingdata.co.uk/
- Funded by an ESRC Transformative Research Award
