E 388M: Introduction to Digital Humanities- Clement

r3data is the Registry of Research Data Repositories and cover almost 3,000 disciplinary data repositories

1. Navigate to re3data.org
2. Search by a general keyword or subject area, such as "humanities"
3. On the results page, select a repository
4. Click through to the repository and then search or browse for a dataset
5. Work through some of the questions below

Or

1. Navigate to re3data.org
2. Click "Browse" in the upper right corner and then browse by subject or by content type

1. Navigate to Google Dataset Search
2. Use keywords to search for a dataset on a topic that interests you. Brief 1-3 word searches with general terms work best.
3. Once you find a dataset, see if you can answer the questions in the box below.

Look at the descriptive information about the dataset

• Who created this data set?
• What dates do the data cover?
• What type of information is included in the dataset?
• What types of files are included in the dataset? Do you have the right software to work with those files?
• Are you allowed to reuse this data? Does it have a license or a rights statement?

Click through to the dataset

• Can you see a preview of the data? What does it look like?
• If the data is organized in a table or spreadsheet, can you understand the column headers?
• Where can you download the dataset?
• Can you tell how large the dataset is?

Getting ready to analyze the data

• How was this data collected and for what purpose?
• Are there potential sources of bias in the data?
• What information might be missing from this data?
• What questions could I investigate using this data?