The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
After completion of each module section you will be able to…
Conceptualize humanities research as data.
Structure, format, and represent your data to ensure its preservation and accessibility.
Understand your personal responsibilities to storage and long-term preservation.
Know how to make your data ADA accessible.
Contemplate the potential for public access and storage in digital repositories.
About us
This module was created by Alanna Quan, Taryn Haydostian, and Laura Dintzis
Joanna Drucker’s “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display” http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html
SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide
https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/IR_Guide__Checklist_v1_0.pdf
How to Make Your Work Open Access
https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/How_to_make_your_own_work_open_access
LibGuides: SPSS Tutorials: Creating a Codebook.
https://libguides.library.kent.edu/SPSS/Codebooks
UCLA Open Access Repository
https://escholarship.org/uc/ucla
Create Accessible Content
https://accessibility.princeton.edu/how/content
Printable Checklist for Accessible Web Content
Accessible Table Tutorial
https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/tables/one-header/
Organizing Files and Folders - Wageningen University
File Naming - Data Research Management at Princeton
https://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=102546&p=930626
File Formats and Standards - Digital Preservation Coalition
https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/technical-solutions-and-tools/file-formats-and-standards
NEH Data Management Plans
https://www.neh.gov/blog/planning-your-next-dhag-3-managing-and-sustaining-project-assets
UCLA NEH
https://guides.library.ucla.edu/c.php?g=180580&p=1189056
Digital Access and Title III of the ADA
https://adata.org/research_brief/digital-access-and-title-iii-ada
Accessibility Checklist
Tropy
OpenRefine
DMPTool
Dryad
Merritt
EZID
GitHub
Zenodo
Google Drive
OpenDOAR
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/
“File Formats and Standards - Digital Preservation Handbook.” Accessed March 8, 2022. https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/technical-solutions-and-tools/file-formats-and-standards.
Horstmann, Kai T., Ruben C. Arslan, and Samuel Greiff. “Generating Codebooks to Ensure the Independent Use of Research Data: Some Guidelines.” European Journal of Psychological Assessment 36, no. 5 (2020): 721–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000620.
Lawton Henry, Shawn. “Essential Components of Web Accessibility.” W3C. Last updated February 27, 2018. https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/components/.
Ohlson, Alexandra. “The Workflows That Make Robust Digital Preservation Possible: LOCKSS Archive Case Studies.” Henderson, Nevada, United States of America, October 2018. https://web.stanford.edu/group/lockss/resources/2018-10_Practical_solutions_to_the_real-world_challenges_of_digital_preservation.pptx.
Polchow, Michelle. “Exploring Perpetual Access.” The Serials Librarian 80, no. 1–4 (May 19, 2021): 107–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2021.1883206.
Princeton. “Create Accessible Content.” Accessed March 8, 2022. https://accessibility.princeton.edu/how/content.
Sanders, Ashley. “Humanistic Data–Classifying Individuals and Visualizing Silences.” Unpublished manuscript, accessed March 8, 2022. Microsoft Word file.
Suber, Peter. “How to Make Your Work Open Access.” Harvard Open Access Project. Last modified December 12, 2021. https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/How_to_make_your_own_work_open_access.
Yeager, Kristin. “LibGuides: SPSS Tutorials: Creating a Codebook.” Accessed March 8, 2022. https://libguides.library.kent.edu/SPSS/Codebooks.
Anonymous, British, 19th century. Trade Card for R. Ackermann, Publisher, Printseller, and Color Manufacturer. 19th century. Engraving, Sheet: 3 3/8 × 4 15/16 in. (8.6 × 12.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants. ca. –90 1575. Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze, H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm) Diam. of rim: 11 3/16 in. (28.4 cm).
Fragmentary Loom Width with Ogival Pattern. ca. –80 1570. Silk, metal wrapped thread; lampas (kemha), Textile: L. 75 in. (190.5 cm) W. 26 in. (66 cm) Mount: L. 56 3/8 in. (143.2 cm) W. 30 3/4 in. (78.1 cm) D. 1 in. (2.5 cm) Wt. 36 lbs. (16.3 kg). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Fragmentary Loom Width with Wavy-Vine Pattern. ca. –80 1565. Silk, metal wrapped thread; lampas (kemha), Textile: L. 48 in. (121.9 cm) W. 26 1/2 in. (67.3 cm) Mount: L. 53 1/4 in. (135.3 cm) W. 32 in. (81.3 cm) D. 1 in. (2.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
John Bennett (1840–1907). Vase. 1882. Painted and glazed earthenware, H. 11 in. (27.9 cm); Diam. 11 in. (27.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Lorenz Frølich (Danish, Copenhagen 1820–1908 Hellerup). Autograph Notes. 1904 1835. Pen and brown ink over graphite (?), 6 13/16 x 5 3/16 in (17.3 x13.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Mina’i Bowl with Abstract Pattern. second half 12th–early 13th century. Stonepaste; polychrome inglaze and overglaze painted on opaque monochrome glaze (mina’i), H. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm) Diam. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Nevil Story Maskelyne (British, 1823–1911). Sultan. mid-1850s. Salted paper print from glass negative, Image: 5 3/4 × 6 7/8 in. (14.6 × 17.5 cm); corners trimmed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Pattern Book. 70 1830. Paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Petticoat Panel. third quarter 18th century. Cotton, painted resist and mordant, dyed, 33 5/8 x 67 1/2 in. (85.4 x 171.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Section of a Border with Zigzag Pattern. 1205–1223 1200. Pot metal and colorless glass, vitreous paint, and silver stain, Overall: 23 1/2 x 10 x 3/8 in. (59.7 x 25.4 x 1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Southern Netherlands (?), Bruges (?). Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem. ca. –90 1480. Tempera and gold leaf on parchment, 10 13/16 x 7 1/4 in. (27.4 x 18.4cm) Miniature: 6 1/8 x 4 7/8 in. (15.6 x 12.4cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Textile. 19th century. 1 1/4 × 3 1/8 in. (3.2 × 7.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Unknown (American). [A.S. Howard Building Under Construction]. 1885. Tintype, Image: 12.7 x 17.9 cm (5 x 7 1/16 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.