1. DATA MANAGEMENT FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY a basic course

2. OUTLINE 1. WHAT IS DATA MANAGEMENT, AND WHY IS IT RELEVANT? I. Funding And Governance II. Personal Organisation And Skills 2. WHAT IS DATA? 3. DATA CREATION, CAPTURE AND ORGANISATION I. Introduction II. Conversion Of Data Into Different Formats III. File Formats IV. File Naming V. File Structure VI. Email VII. Remote Access 4. BACK-UPS

3. N.B. - THIS IS A P A R T I C I P A T O R Y EXERCISE!

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5. 4 i FUNDING & GOVERNANCE: sharing & planning requirements

6. 4 http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/Research_ Data_Policy_2010_tcm8-4595.pdf

7. 4 ii PERSONAL ORGANIZATION & SKILLS: preserving, retrieving, reusing & analysing

8. BUT

9. 7 The archive always works, a priori, against itself. Derrida, J. 1995 ‘Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression.’ Diacritics 25(2): 9-63, p. 14.

10. 8 SO LET GO ?

11. 8 http://noelmas.files.wordpress.com/20 09/12/clayette1.jpg

12. 7 We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. Baudrillard, J. 1994 Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, p. 79 DISCUSS

13. 9 [http://www.openclipart.org]http://www.openclipart.org PROS AND CONS TIME CONSUMING; BORING; SELF- DEFEATING ANALYTICAL & PRACTICAL ADVANTAGES

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15. what is data? YOUR EXPECTATIONS a. FOR THE WORKSHOP AND b. FOR DATA CREATION & MANAGEMENT IN THE FIELD: WHO, WHAT, HOW...?

16. A PARTIAL LIST  EXPERIENCE (always understood post hoc in terms of its archiving: the psychic memory, repression, suppression of it. All-encompassing, affective, ephemeral, relational, intersubjective - impossible to capture in its complexity)  PEN-AND-PAPER NOTES on experience(s)  OTHER, NON-DIGITAL ARTEFACTS (including also brochures, fliers,...potentially endless list)  PHOTOS/VIDEOS (analogue and digital, taken by you or by others)  TYPED-UP NOTES  PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE (emails, letters, text messages, recorded phone calls…, many formats, both analogue and digital)  REPORTS (to supervisor, funding bodies…again in various formats, presumably digital?) and feedback on them and other bits of writing  INTERVIEWS, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, AND FOCUS-GROUP DISCUSSIONS (notes, recordings, memory…)  STATISTICAL DATA (analogue and digital, one’s own or created by others, e.g. datasets)  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA AND NOTES (A&D)  ARCHIVAL DATA (A&D)  MAPS AND DRAWINGS (A&D)  EMAILS, MAILING LISTS, BLOGS, WEBSITES of various kinds  INDEX CARDS (e.g. for language/kinship data...)  …ELUSIVE! You might not realise what counts as data until after you have collected it  …

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18. ‘I don’t like reading my diaries, I don’t want to go back to them, it’s a bit like hearing my voice recorded. But I also know I have really nice stuff in there that I could go back to and recycle…’

19. 15 I MEMORY TRAINING

20. ARCHIVE & CONVERT ON-THE-GO

21. analogue & digital http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lSUuCPqqLeU/S4 2MAyMngOI/AAAAAAAAANE/eYsOwG8WfV U/s1600-h/Nelson,+Ted+cl-cover7a.jpg

22. what difference does it make ?

23. II conversion

24. BRAINSTORM

25. analogue to digital: TAKE PICTURES !

26. DIGITAL RECORDING: Recording Time Data Storage Recording Features Connectivity Transcription Features

27. TRANSCR[PTiON is it necessary? when? which software? take notes assistants: confidentiality, context, conventions and guidelines, pay and acknowledgement

28. T R A N S L A T I O N keep originals!

29. http://dataconv.orghttp://dataconv.org/

30. FILE FORMATS: choose open source/standard for - PRESERVATION -EXTRACTION - ACCESSIBILITY -CONSISTENCY

31. http://www.dat a- archive.ac.uk/cr eate- manage/format /formats-table

32. FILE NAMES S I M PLI C IT Y CLARITY CONSISTENCY DOCUMENTATION

33. FILE STRUCTURE SELECTION CONSISTENCY SIMPLICITY

34. em@il: keep it in check

35. [remote] ACCESS Institutional networked storage Virtual learning/research environments Online storage and backup service (‘cloud computing’)

36. your experience

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38. 52 BACKUP: multiple copies different media & formats back-up, select, and test the system regularly

39. 55 OPTIONS (a partial list): External hard- drives Online storage PWF, Camtools USB sticks CD-roms and DVDs Photocopies and printouts digital pictures/scans email …