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James Baille

Resources

  • Data and Databases: Data Management and Storage

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    The data you generate in humanities and social science projects may well need longer term storage beyond the scope of your own research project. Medium to long term data storage is vital for allowing other scholars to examine and test your data and models, and ensuring open access to your data is an increasingly prominent issue. This resource will guide you through a thoughtful discussion of Data Management and Storage.

  • Data and Databases: An Introduction

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    In this resource students will learn what a database is and how it is used in humanities research, go through examples of Humanities Databases in use by researchers today, learn when a researcher would need to use a database and how to distinguish between different database technologies.

  • An Introduction to Prosopography

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    This resource helps students tackle key prosopography challenges, such as disambiguating individuals with the same name, handling anonymous entries, and recognizing fictional people, known as the Rusudan Problem. Additionally, this resource focuses on the theory of identity, where roles, titles, and historical presence may be disputed but still carry an assumed "correct" interpretation. Fluid identities—such as ethnicity, gender, and religion—are more complex and require careful modeling in databases. The course also covers how to scope projects effectively by defining clear research questions and boundaries.

  • Data and Databases: Entities and Relationships

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    An entity is an object with its own characteristics, defined according to the specificities of a given field. This resource covers associations between entities, attributes of entities, identifiers of entities and cardinalities of entities.