Digital Sustainability and Preservation in Digital Archives Projects

Instructors:
Dr. Constance Crompton, Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, University of Ottawa
Meghan Landry, ACENET

Max Participants: 25

This four-day in-person workshop at St. Francis Xavier University will discuss in-depth the role of metadata standards, controlled vocabularies, and linked open data in digital archives projects. This workshop will be inspired by the theory and practice of LINCS, Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship, and the Endings Project (https://endings.uvic.ca), which has “created tools, principles, policies and recommendations for digital scholarship practitioners to create accessible, stable, long-lasting resources in the humanities.”  Hands-on use of OpenRefine, an open-source data cleaning and transformation tool, will frame the discussions of metadata best practices, followed by a brief introduction to HTML and building projects to last online in keeping with Endings Project principles. The workshop concludes with an outline of how to embed a project within a broader network of support through libraries, archives, associations, and community groups.