Digital humanities
- 2. Session Content • – Information Discovery • Academic Research – Information discovery : Catalogue(e-books) / Multisearch / Google Scholar / Interlibrary Loans / Databases /Data Management Plans
- 3. Information is a process Information Cycle
- 4. Information has a value • Multisearch – How to access Database journal articles – Logon required for subscription material
- 5. Good Searches Use Database Structure • Multisearch – Limiters (“refine your search” / Subject Search / Publication Date) – Metadata added and abstract view – Save this item – Export/email / Harvard referencing (Approx.)
- 6. Google scholar • Difference between Google and Google Scholar – searches for scholarly literature – “rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature”
- 7. Specific Resources • Archives – RIAN – FBI • Reading lists • JSTOR • Interlibrary Loans • Visits to external libraries (Trinity etc.)
- 9. How to get information from other libraries • Interlibrary loans- before using it make sure the book isnt in the library multisearch and catalog. • Journal articles need to fill out copyright declaration fourm and annual end user statement.
- 10. Research Design • Information needs is dependent on your research question and research design – Quantitative / Qualitative / Mixed
- 11. Quantitative / Qualitative • Quantitative research = collecting numerical data to explain a particular phenomenon – Objective, Scientific, large data sets • Qualitative research = data is richer (e.g. interviews, reflective narratives, etc.)more detail and depth to what is really happening – Subjective, small data sets
- 12. Research and Information • Research in a Systematic Enquiry into a your question/problem • Both Quantitative and Qualitative research make use of Data and Secondary Resources • Does all research use Mixed methods?
- 13. Research Practice • Good Research Process requires a good Research Data Plan Data Management Plan • Data collection • Documentation and Metadata • Storage and Backup • Data Sharing and Preservation • Data Management Responsibilties & Resourcing • Ethic and Legal Requirements
- 15. What is data • Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis 8,848m Height of Mt. Everest = Data Mount Everest Book on Mt. Everest = Information How to reach Mt Everest peak = Knowledge
- 16. Wisdom • Knowing when to interpret, analyse and apply data, information and knowledge. Knowing when not to try and attempt an assent of Mt Everest = Wisdom
- 17. Thought experiment Data or Information? Making Information/knowledge From Data
- 18. Different types of Data
- 19. Examples of Open Data • CSO https://www.cso.ie/ • https://data.gov.ie/ • http://whereyourmoneygoes.gov.ie/en/ • www.urbantide.com • https://cropsat.com/ • https://openknowledgemaps.org/
Editor's Notes
- #4: With so much information now available online it can be difficult to tell what’s what. Think about the process behind the creation of the information rather than the format. Look at this process and the final product in order to critically evaluate the information. Format and method of access/how the content is delivered are two separate things.
- #6: Databases are collections of digital information
- #10: Ill button on the catalog page, click through it, click on item you want, in this case book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Nationalism-American-Politics-Thought/dp/052162326X/ref=pd_sim_14_3/260-3727858-3194452?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=052162326X&pd_rd_r=6c835134-9b6b-46ca-bf03-569a294ea4fa&pd_rd_w=78izX&pd_rd_wg=PYIV0&pf_rd_p=32ad4a08-4896-4172-a2ea-821c9be00310&pf_rd_r=GSS0FBCCFCJBMFYTKTJE&psc=1&refRID=GSS0FBCCFCJBMFYTKTJE go through details with amamzon page Journal articles