Constructing Data
How and What to Collect
Roopika Risam (on reproducing colonial knowledge),Lesbian Herstory Archives pg 140 Intersectional Feminism
Posner radical new digital humanities (shifts focus from mainstream to marginalized but also develops ways of representing people's lives in data "as they have been experienced, not as they have been captured and advanced by businesses and governments".
How to Encode Information
For digital collections, item information is frequently encoded in relational databases. A relational database is a structured set of data that contains a series of formally described tables from which data can be queried or organized in different ways. This structure enhances searching, browsing, and exhibition functions by enabling users to access items and reassemble collections based on tabular information.To create a digital collection with these functions, you can either build a relational database from scratch or use a digital publishing platform that functions as a relational database, such as Wordpress, Omeka, Scalar, and CollectiveAccess [2]. While building a custom database may allow for greater processing opportunities down the line, using a digital publishing platform can streamline the construction process.
Either way, before getting started you will want to develop a metadata schema for your collection. Metadata, or 'data about data,' "provides a means of indexing, accessing, preserving, and discovering digital resources" [3]. While metadata can serve different functions related to these tasks, we will be concerned, primarily, with metadata's descriptive function [4].
Surveillance, safety, access (Mukurtu). flat ontology (scalar)
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