This project focuses on the perspectives of area studies on data literacy and the creation of digital research infrastructures. It is part of the National Research Data Infrastructure for the Historically Oriented Humanities (NFDI4Memory).
About the Project
"Digital Area Histories" addresses technical, legal and ethical dimensions of historical data criticism and RDM in area histories (African, Asian, European, East-European, North American, Latin American and Russian History). Digital area histories face distinct challenges because creating and using research data must be coordinated with the national and regional institutional, technical and legal contexts in which these data were primarily created, collected, made accessible and managed. Therefore, RDM in area histories need to consider issues of technical fit between different traditions of data collection and storage as well as indexing through metadata standards. It must also account for divergent legal regimes of data access, research data use and good scholarly practice. Finally, yet importantly, Europe’s colonial history and treatment of its colonial historical heritage as well as persistent global asymmetries of academic research opportunities, pose specific issues of research ethics in area histories.
Our goals are:
- to map and monitor such differences and make available reliable and relevant information on the international development of research data management for the German research and education landscape;
- to initiate and document the negotiation of cooperative procedures for using data from other national and regional contexts and to thus make this data accessible for German scholars in a “fair” and “careful” manner
Events
- Roundtable “The Future of the Archive(s): Digital Infrastructures Across Regions”, CrossArea Conference 2023, Regensburg, 17 November 2023
- Breakout-Session “#Different Area - different RDM? Nicht eurozentristische Perspektiven auf FD”, Community Forum NFDI4Memory, online, 20 November 2023
Project Team
