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Cleaning and Clarifying
August 11, 2016 | By Alice Lynn McMichael
This year’s project has been an exercise in exploring what “data” means in the humanities and thinking about research as data collection. It has left me pondering how, on one hand, initial research and data collection and the data cleaning process(es) can be viewed as a single, messy procedure, or...
Publishing Fort Snelling Collections Data to Demonstrate Its Value for Both Research and Interpretive Projects
September 03, 2015 | By Nancy Hoffman
I plan to publish electronic catalog records for the Historic Fort Snelling archaeology collections held by the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) to Open Context to make them available for scholarly research, specifically for use by University of Minnesota research partner Dr. Kathryn Hayes and her students. Using the Open...