Sustainable Data for Humanities Researchers

About the Event

Research data is valuable – we spend time (and often money) in collecting it, and it is fundamental to creating knowledge. Because of this value, we have a responsibility to ensure that data will continue to be useful, minimally to ourselves but ideally also to others.

This workshop will introduce participants to basic ideas of data management which are oriented to making data sustainable in line with two important sets of principles, FAIR and CARE.

This workshop aims to:

• increase awareness of the importance of sustainable data
• introduce basic principles for managing data sustainably
• demonstrate simple methods which implement those principles
• give participants hands-on experience with tools for data management.

Morning tea and lunch will be provided, with breaks scheduled throughout the day.

This workshop is run by the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) for researchers working in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, as part of the HASS Taskforce.

Instructors: Dr Simon Musgrave, Research Support and Training Lead, and River Smith, Principal Software Engineer, LDaCA

Presenters

Dr Simon Musgrave, Research Support and Training Lead, Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA)

Simon is a linguist who throughout his career has been fascinated by the use of technology in linguistic research.

River Smith, Principal Software Engineer, LDaCA

River comes from a professional background in software development. He has previously worked on the Auslan Signbank and Nyingarn projects and is now focussed on research software, creating text analysis tools and helping researchers to explore and analyse LDaCA’s collections.