Reading
Readers are encouraged to browse through the following publication, and/or use it for reference. It need not be read in its entirety.
Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century
Simberloff, D., Barish, B. C., Droegemeier, K. K., Etter, D., Fedoroff, N., Ford, K., … & White Jr, J. A. (2005). Long-lived digital data collections: enabling research and education in the 21st century. National Science Foundation.
Focusing on digital data collections, this document from the National Science Foundation (United States) provides a detailed discussion of data, and particularly digital data. It is very useful as a reference resource.
Read: Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century, pp. 17-22.
The following material is optional. However, interested readers are encouraged to peruse it.
The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities
Christine L. Borgman
Borgman, C. L. (2010). The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 3(4).
In this article, Christine L. Borgman, Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), assesses the state of digital scholarship within the wider humanities community, and discusses five questions that this community needs to address: “What are data?”; “What are the infrastructure requirements?”; “Where are the social studies of digital humanities?”; “What is the humanities laboratory of the 21st century?”; and “What is the value proposition for digital humanities in an era of declining budgets?”
Read: The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities
Data
Lev Manovich
This article, written by an influential digital humanities scholar, presents a new view of data as something that is directly involved in computation.
Read: Data, published in (Paul, 2019)