In Class Lab 4

Part 1

Pick one of the following to examine:

1. http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/?ids=10000473&min_confidence=60&type=network

1. https://plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu/

2. https://baltimoreuprising2015.org/ 

3. “Mukurtu CMS: An Indigenous Archive and Publishing Tool,” [Link]

Form a small group with folks who picked the same site as you.

Examine the data with this: https://web.archive.org/web/20230718054358/https://merlinone.com/types-of-metadata/

Once you’ve opened the document, examine it for the following

1. Identify its data types.

2. What constitutes a record in this dataset?

3. How do we organize and categorize objects that come from other knowledge systems? What kind of power do we wield when we name and categorize things?

4. Who will find this data most useful and illuminating?

5. What can this dataset tell you about the phenomenon it claims to describe?

6. What gets left out?

7. Imagine you’re starting over with data-collection and describe it from a  completely different point of view

part 2

Download our data set for the day