Revitalizing CoPAR for the Digital Age
June 2 to 3, 2016 University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
PROGRAM
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Key Questions:
- What is your relationship to anthropological records?
- What kind of data do you use, produce, or oversee? How would you define research data in your field?
- How are research data used and how do you anticipate them reused in the next 50 years? Who are the primary and emergent users of your research data?
- Given your experience and the pre-circulated articles, what is changing (in research data production, use, preservation, ethics)? How do you see the creation of anthropological/ethnographic records and their use shifting in the digital age?
CoPAR Publications:
Available at: http://copar.org/par/index.htm:
- Fowler, Catherine. 1995. “Ethical Considerations”
- Krech, Shepard, III and William C. Sturtevant. 1995. “The Uses of Ethnographic Records”
- Parezo, Nancy J. and Ruth J. Person. 1995. “Saving the Past: Guidelines for Individuals”
All In Preserving the Anthropological Record (Second Edition), Sydel Silverman and Nancy J. Parezo (eds.), New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
On CoPAR’s History:
Parezo, Nancy J. 1999. “Preserving Anthropology’s Heritage: CoPAR, Anthropological Records, and the Archival Community.” American Archivist 62(2): 271-306.
Other Relevant Readings:
- Asher, Andrew and Lori M. Jahnke. 2013. “Curating the Ethnographic Moment” Archive Journal 3(2013). http://www.archivejournal.net/issue/3/archives-remixed/curating-the-ethnographic-moment/
- Gutmann, Myron, et al.. 2004. “The Selection, Appraisal, and Retention of Social Science Data.” Data Science Journal 3:209-221.
- Leopold Robert. 2008. “The Second Life of Ethnographic Fieldnotes.” Ateliers d’anthropologie. Revue éditée par le Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative Aug(32). http://ateliers.revues.org/3132
- Sanjek, Roger. 2016. “From Fieldnotes to eFieldnotes” In eFieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology in the Digital World, Sanjek, R. and S. Tratner (eds.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 3-27. Available on Google books.
Suggested Reading:
- Sanjek, Roger. 1990. Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press.