Anthropological data in the digital age : new possibilities, new challenges /

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,...

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Group Author: Crowder, Jerome W; Fortun, Michael; Besara, Rachel; Poirier, Lindsay
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham, Switzerland :
Publication Dates: [2020]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: 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 an
Carrier Form: xxiv, 270 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9783030249243 (hardcover) :
3030249247 (hardcover)
Index Number: GN34
CLC: C912.4-37
Call Number: C912.4-37/A628
Contents: Introduction / Jerome W. Crowder and Richard B. Freeman -- Understanding data management planning and sharing : perspectives for the social scientist / Michele Reilly and Santi Thompson -- Building socio-technical systems to support data management and digital scholarship in the social sciences / Plato L. Smith II, Crytal Felima, Fletcher Durant, David Van Kleeck, Hélène Huet, and Laurie N. Taylor -- Digital workflow in the humanities and social sciences : a data ethnography / Smiljana Antonijević -- Archaeological data in the cloud : collaboration and accessibility with the Digital Ar