CIRCA:Research Methods

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This is an overview of some of the research methods, tactics, and practices that you may need to complete projects. They are organized around the types of things that need to get done in typical projects. For some of things you need to get done there are formal methods, for some there are tactics or practices that you should check out. An entire book could be written about the subject, this is just a way in.
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Here we present research methods that are useful in the Digital Humanities.
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== Starting Projects ==
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== Prepatory Methods ==
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These are research skills that we take for granted, but are important to any research.
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* [[CIRCA: Question Formation | How to form a question.]]
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* Environmental Scan
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* [[CIRCA: Literature Review | Reviewing the literature.]]
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== Running Projects ==
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== Digitization Methods ==
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* Scrums are an agile process for getting things done. See the [[http://www.scrumalliance.org/pages/what_is_scrum Scrum Alliance]] for more.
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These are methods and best practices for digitization.
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* [[CIRCA: Agile Management | Agile Management]] methods are a class of techniques for getting things done quickly without too much planning. Scrums would be one example.
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* [[CIRCA: Digitization Standards | Formats and standards for digitizing]]
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* [[CIRCA: User Testing | User Testing]] methods are important to developing web sites and other applications meant to be used widely.
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* Text Encoding and Enrichment
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* [[CIRCA: Acquiring Data | Acquiring Digital Information]]
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* [http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2013/05/resources-from-digitisation-doctor-workshop-now-available/ Resources from Digitization Doctor Workshop]
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* [[CIRCA: Data Curation | Data Curation]]
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== Wrapping Projects Up ==
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== Text Methods ==
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* A big part of wrapping a project up is presenting it back stakeholders. Here is some advice on [[CIRCA: Presenting to Stakeholders]] and more generally [[CIRCA: Presenting Information]].
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* [[CIRCA: Document Analysis | Document Analysis]]
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* [[CIRCA: Text Analysis | Text Analysis]]
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* [[CIRCA: Content Analysis | Content Analysis]]
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* [[CIRCA: Close Reading | Close Reading]]
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* [[CIRCA: Creative Methods | Creative Methods]]
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= Other =
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== Usability and Interface Design ==
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* [[CIRCA: User Testing | User Testing]] methods are important to developing web sites and other applications meant to be used widely.
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== How to get support for a project, including how to get grants? ==
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* [[CIRCA: Interviews | Interviews]] and oral histories.
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* [[CIRCA: Talk Aloud | Talk Aloud]] method for getting usability information.
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== How to work out realistic objectives for a project after it has been approved? ==
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* Ideation and Design Research
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== How to digitize materials and gather data? ==
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* See [[CIRCA: Gathering Data]]
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== How to figure out the needs of stakeholders? ==
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== How to develop an interface for a web site? ==
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== How to get programming done right? ==
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== How to assess a project? ==
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== How to analyze a mess of unstructured data? ==
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== How to analyze structured data? ==
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== When do you need ethics clearance and how to get it? ==
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== How to survive as new research assistant? ==
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== How to get your thesis done along with everything else? ==
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== How to formulate interesting questions, challenges and objectives? ==
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See [[CIRCA: Question Formation]]
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== How to do a literature review? ==
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== Historical Methods ==
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* [[CIRCA: Interviews | Interviews]] and oral histories.
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* Geospatial Information Systems
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* Databases
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* Geospatial Methods
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See [[CIRCA: Literature Review]]
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== Statistical Methods ==
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* Social Network Analysis
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* Text Mining
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* Visualization

Current revision as of 10:43, 21 August 2013

Here we present research methods that are useful in the Digital Humanities.

Contents

Prepatory Methods

These are research skills that we take for granted, but are important to any research.

Digitization Methods

These are methods and best practices for digitization.

Text Methods

Usability and Interface Design

  • User Testing methods are important to developing web sites and other applications meant to be used widely.
  • Interviews and oral histories.
  • Talk Aloud method for getting usability information.
  • Ideation and Design Research

Historical Methods

  • Interviews and oral histories.
  • Geospatial Information Systems
  • Databases
  • Geospatial Methods

Statistical Methods

  • Social Network Analysis
  • Text Mining
  • Visualization
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