Data Curation for the Humanities: Perspectives From Rice University

At the start of the 21st century, it was uncommon to hear humanities scholars talk about their research in terms of data. By that time, however, some prominent efforts had emerged that allowed scholars to leverage computational resources to discover and present new information.¹ These new approaches...

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Zusammenfassung:	At the start of the 21st century, it was uncommon to hear humanities scholars talk about their research in terms of data. By that time, however, some prominent efforts had emerged that allowed scholars to leverage computational resources to discover and present new information.¹ These new approaches would change earlier scholarly analyses and interpretations that were limited by the amount of information a human could manage, both cognitively and physically, with large volumes of printed text. Projects such as the Valley of the Shadow (Ayers, n.d.), the Perseus Digital Library (Crane, n.d.), and The Walt Whitman Archive (Folsom & Price, n.d.)