Interview with Deborah Winslow of the National Science Foundation

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Jerome W. Crowder, University of Texas Medical Branch
Mike Fortun, University of California, Irvine
Rachel Besara, Missouri State University
Lindsay Poirier, University of California, DavisFollow

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Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities — New Challenges

Creation Date

2020

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Springer Nature eBook

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Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities — New Challenges; eds. Jerome W. Crowder, Mike Fortun, Rachel Besara, Lindsay Poirier

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Book Chapter

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Chapter Abstract:

In this chapter the editors interview Dr. Deborah Winslow about her work at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the evolution of data management plans (DMPs) in Anthropology and the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). She outlines what the NSF expects to see in a DMP and what not to include. The conversation moves into how anthropologists collaborate with “adjacent disciplines” and how the ideas and terms for data, and the expectations of data change. She emphasizes thinking about the kind of data you will collect and what you plan to do with those data later, in terms of requirements for sharing and ultimately archiving them. The conversation ends with a discussion about student research and formulating appropriate research questions.

Book Summary:

Summary: For more than two decades, anthropologists have wrestled with new digital technologies and their impacts on how their data are collected, managed, and ultimately presented. Anthropological Data in the Digital Age compiles a range of academics in anthropology and the information sciences, archivists, and librarians to offer in-depth discussions of the issues raised by digital scholarship. The volume covers the technical aspects of data management-retrieval, metadata, dissemination, presentation, and preservation-while at once engaging with case studies written by cultural anthropologists and archaeologists returning from the field to grapple with the implications of producing data digitally. Concluding with thoughts on the new considerations and ethics of digital data, Anthropological Data in the Digital Age is a multi-faceted meditation on anthropological practice in a technologically mediated world.