Posner - Translation problems.pptx (3.52 MB)
Translation problems: Why humanists are so difficult about data
presentation
posted on 2017-06-03, 21:44 authored by Symposium on Information and technology in the arts and humanitiesSymposium on Information and technology in the arts and humanities, Posner, MiriamEven as more people identify as
digital humanists, information professionals often have trouble getting
humanists to talk about data management, prepare plans for data sustainability,
or even put their data in a logical place. But there's a good reason for this:
Humanists don't tend to think of their sources as data -- not because they're
not used to computers, but because of epistemological problems with the very
term "data." Miriam Posner will explain what these problems are and
what they might mean for digital humanities and librarianship.