University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94704-5940)
Rachael Samberg (Project Director: March 2019 to January 2022)
HT-267259-19
Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities
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Totals:
$165,034 (approved)
$110,106 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/2019 – 8/31/2021
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Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining
A
four-day summer workshop at the University of California, Berkeley, and
follow-up activities for thirty-two participants on the ethical and legal
issues around data mining of large scale textual collections for humanities
research.
Digital humanities (DH) scholars, and professionals who support them, often perceive a barrier to utilizing text data mining (TDM) techniques: the law. Uncertainty about the breadth of TDM rights can impede the scope of DH research questions, or unnecessarily expose scholars to risk. Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining (Building LLTDM), hosted by UC Berkeley from June 23-26, 2020, will equip DH TDM researchers, librarians, and professionals with foundational skills to: 1) confidently navigate law, policy, ethics, and risk within DH TDM projects; 2) integrate workflows for DH TDM research and professional support; 3) practice sharing these new tools through authentic consultation exercises; 4) prototype plans for broadly disseminating their knowledge; and 5) develop communities of practice to promote cross-institutional outreach about the DH TDM legal landscape. Instructional materials will be shared publicly as a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero waiver) open educational resource.
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