RESOURCE: Perseids: Experimenting with Infrastructure for Creating and Sharing Research Data in the Digital Humanities

The latest issue of Data Science Journal includes an article from Bridget Almas (Tufts University), “Perseids: Experimenting with Infrastructure for Creating and Sharing Research Data in the Digital Humanities.”

From the abstract:

The Perseids project provides a platform for creating, publishing, and sharing research data, in the form of textual transcriptions, annotations and analyses. An offshoot and collaborator of the Perseus Digital Library (PDL), Perseids is also an experiment in reusing and extending existing infrastructure, tools, and services. This paper discusses infrastructure in the domain of digital humanities (DH). It outlines some general approaches to facilitating data sharing in this domain, and the specific choices we made in developing Perseids to serve that goal. It concludes by identifying lessons we have learned about sustainability in the process of building Perseids, noting some critical gaps in infrastructure for the digital humanities, and suggesting some implications for the wider community.

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