Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Professor of History, University of Tasmania, presented at the Research Integrity Advisor Research Data Management Workshop in Hobart, 2017
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Data in Humanities Research
1. RIA Data Workshop
Data in Humanities Research
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Humanities - History
Co-director, Data Knowledge Decision, theme area
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Venice Time Machine (2.28 mins)
Big Data and Humanities Research
Google Books (within a decade most books published before 1900 will have been digitised)
Ancestry, Find My Past and Family Search
Records of over 700million individuals organised into family trees, Ancestry
19th and 20th century census data
National Library of Australia = Trove, digitised newspapers
Blue Books: 1824-1950 = 1.5 million pages
Work in larger teams (often interdisciplinary teams)
Work with Industry Partners, particularly Archives and Transcription services
Change relationship with HDR
Working with volunteers, data donations
‘Wicked Problems’ and Humanities Research.
Intergenerational Transmission
Increased risk of prosecution if one or more parents has a conviction history
Mother
Father
Child Schizophrenia
Genetic
Poor Parenting
Shared Environmental Experience
Child at greater risk of prosecution
since one or more parents known to the police.
2. Intergenerational Transmission
Inequality
Father
Mother
Child Life expectancy
Literacy
EnvironmentGenetic
Chemical coating of
chromosomes
Foetal Origins
Hypothesis Different Environment
Hulk
Voyage300Sicklists-
25,000
Trial
Registers-25,000
UnfreeVDL FreeVictoria
DeathsMarriagesBirths
FreeVDL /Tasmania
Departures
1817-67
114,453
BurialsMarriagesBaptisms
1803-1838ParishRegisters
7,00013,0005,000
Conviction /Voyage
FreeArrivals
42,233(12,000)
DeathsMarriagesBirths
1838-1899CivilRegisters
200,00090,00050,000
Deaths
1899-1930
30,000
AIFAssessment
roles
Police
Gazettes
55,0002,000of14,000
Absconding
Notices
DescriptionOffence
Convict
Deaths
Gazette
Notices
66,00075,000
10,000
220,000
Convict
MustersIndents
50,000
67,000
66,000
Legacy Data
Archival Indexes
Indexing data from data provider services
Data from other research projects
Coding systems, software
Images of the original record
Transcript Coding
Research
Team
Archive Research
Team
HDR
Student
Index
Context Event When Days Type
Eccleshall, Staffordshire Born 1811 Assigned
Central Criminal Court 7Years Transportation 12 Dec 1842 Event
Newgate ? Reported
Justicia Hulk Arrived 7 Feb 1843 57 Event
Justicia Hulk Age 30 7 Feb 1843 Declared
Justicia Hulk Literacy Read 7 Feb 1843 Declared
Lord Petre Embarked 21 June 1843 134 Event
Lord Petre, Hospital Treated Ophthalmia 15 Sep 1843 86 Event
Lord Petre, Hospital Discharged 20 Sep 1843 5 Event
Lord Petre Arrived 15 Oct 1843 25 Event
Lord Petre Age 34 15 Oct 1843 0 Declared
Age 32 Assigned
Lord Petre Literacy Read & write 15 Oct 1843 Declared
Hobart Town Gazette Certificate of Freedom 21 Nov 1845 768 Event
Colonial Hospital
HobartHobart Town Gazette
Died 12 Dec 1849 1,482 Event
Adopted Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) Conventions
Cite
Methods
Paper
3. Transcript
Transcript
Transcript
Dataset
Coding
Coding
Paper
LIFE COURSE DATA
Treat as Publications Make discoverable
Good general rules
When in doubt be generous
Treating steps in the process as separate publications solves some authorship issues
Do not try and hide data away
Data + documentation
Coding tables + documentation
Authors
Authors
Acknowledge Grants
Acknowledge Grants
DOI
DOI
Deposit
Deposit
Assists data preservation (increases citation history etc., meet granting body obligations)
Other
Visualisation
3rd Party
Media
Archival interfaces
Transcript
Transcript
Transcript
Dataset
Coding
Coding
ArchiveArchiveArchive
KEEPING TRACK OF IP
3rd Party
Commercial
Data provider
ACCESIBLE,CURATED,EXPANDABLE