Michelle Urberg discusses describing digital humanities projects in metadata. Digital humanities projects often have multiple contributors, tools, and content types which make them more complex to describe than traditional journal articles. However, resources like Re3data.org and CRediT can provide guidance on developing metadata schemas for digital humanities by standardizing terms for contributors, content types, and other attributes.
6. Describing DH projects
• Multiple contributors (authors, interviewees, content contributors)
• Multiple tools (it’s more than OMEKA or WordPress)
• Multiple content types (it’s more than text)
• Subjects (the sky is the limit!)
• URLs
7. DH Description vs. Journal Description
• Multiple
contributors
• Multiple tools
• Multiple content
types
• Subjects
• URLs
• Journal title
• ISSN
• Volume and Issue
• Year
• Article title
• Author(s)
• Pages
• Abstract
• Keywords
• URL/DOI
8. It’s the wild west out there…
But, a couple of places might get us started:
• Re3data.org
• CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy