Humanities Research Data Management Planning

Where might you store, manage, and disseminate your humanities data?

For personal use:

• Computer drive, external drive, third-party cloud-based services such as Google Drive or, for geospatial projects, ArcGIS Online

For shared use on collaborative in-process projects:

• Third-party cloud-based services such as Google Drive or, for geospatial projects, ArcGIS Online

To share and disseminate finalized datasets:

• Your institution’s digital repository
• An open access digital repository

Whether you publicly disseminate your data will depend on factors including intellectual property, copyright, and whether the repository in question can accommodate your data file formats.

Resources:

• “Digital Humanities and the Data Management Planning Tool” by Miriam Posner
• Data Management Plan Guidelines for the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities