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Record Nr.

UNINA9910370056003321

Titolo

Anthropological Data in the Digital Age : New Possibilities – New Challenges / / edited by Jerome W. Crowder, Mike Fortun, Rachel Besara, Lindsay Poirier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-24925-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 270 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

301.0285

Soggetti

Anthropology

Social sciences

Sociology—Research

Mass media

Communication

Methodology of the Social Sciences

Research Methodology

Media Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding Data Management Planning and Sharing: Perspectives for the Social Scientist -- 3. Building Socio-technical Systems to Support Data Management and Digital Scholarship in the Social Sciences -- 4. Digital Workflow in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Data Ethnography -- 5. Archaeological Data in the Cloud: Collaboration and Accessibility with the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) -- 6. Opportunities and Challenges to Data Sharing with American Tribal Nations -- 7. Digital Transformations: Integrating Ethnographic Video into a Multi-Modal Platform -- 8. Studying and Mobilizing the Impacts of Anthropological Data in Archives -- 9. The Past is Prologue: Preserving and Disseminating Archaeological Data Electronically -- 10. Metadata, Digital Infrastructure, and the Data Ideologies of Cultural Anthropology -- 11. Interview with Deb Winslow (National Science Foundation) -- 12.



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Sommario/riassunto

For more than two decades, anthropologists have wrestled with new digital technologies and their impacts on how their data are collected, managed, and ultimately presented. Anthropological Data in the Digital Age compiles a range of academics in anthropology and the information sciences, archivists, and librarians to offer in-depth discussions of the issues raised by digital scholarship. The volume covers the technical aspects of data management—retrieval, metadata, dissemination, presentation, and preservation—while at once engaging with case studies written by cultural anthropologists and archaeologists returning from the field to grapple with the implications of producing data digitally. Concluding with thoughts on the new considerations and ethics of digital data, Anthropological Data in the Digital Age is a multi-faceted meditation on anthropological practice in a technologically mediated world.