1. Data Problems in the Humanities, or 'When everybody is special, no one is'?
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Woods, Nathan D., Bordalejo, Barbara, O'Donnell, Daniel Paul, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick
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Paper ,Data ,Infrastructure ,and methods ,Long Presentation ,Informatics ,Library & information science ,and artefact preservation ,organization ,Digital Humanities ,data publishing projects ,Humanities computing ,Humanities Data ,History of science ,Data Intensive Research ,systems ,digital research infrastructures development and analysis ,project design ,management ,Data Management ,object - Abstract
The contemporary focus on the 'data problem' in the humanities centers on the uniqueness of humanities data. We argue this is a mistake. Humanities data are not special because of what they are, but rather because of how they are used. The "problem" with Humanities data lies in the use-case.
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- 2023
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