Historical research increasingly generates substantial data – from transcriptions and Excel sheets to databases and machine learning models. Yet this data often remains forgotten on hard drives after publication, despite representing valuable scholarly work. Publishing research data not only makes our efforts visible but enables other researchers to comprehend, reproduce, and directly reuse our work – much like sharing a transcription or translation with a colleague.
But how do we publish data so it's actually reusable for others and not just dumped somewhere on the internet? And how do we make it work as historical data, dealing with ambiguity, incompleteness, and historicity?
This hands-on course teaches students to model and transform their research materials into well-documented, standards-compliant datasets ready for publication. We cover the complete workflow: FAIR principles, legal considerations, reusing and applying ontologies (particularly CIDOC-CRM), mapping to cultural heritage standards, and selecting publication platforms. Each session combines theory with practical exercises using real historical datasets.
Although by no means mandatory, students are encouraged to work with their own research data, making this an ideal opportunity for structured support in preparing research materials for publication. No technical experience required, as necessary skills are built progressively throughout the semester. The course culminates in a practical project contributing to the growing landscape of open historical research data.
The syllabus of the course can be found at: https://hu.berlin/wise2026-syllabus-publish-your-data
Cremer, Fabian, Silvia Daniel, Marina Lemaire, Katrin Moeller, Matthias Razum, and Arnošt Štanzel. ‘Data Meets History: A Research Data Management Strategy for the Historically Oriented Humanities’. In Band 21 Cultural Sovereignty beyond the Modern State: Space, Objects, and Media, edited by Gregor Feindt, Bernhard Gissibl, and Johannes Paulmann, 1st ed., 155–78. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110679151-009.
Baca, Murtha, ed. Introduction to Metadata. Los Angeles, 2016. http://www.getty.edu/publications/intrometadata.
Ausgleichsberechtigte Studierende wenden sich zur bevorzugten Platzvergabe per E-Mail mit einem Nachweis der Ausgleichsberechtigung an die Studienkoordinationsstelle Geschichte. Ausschlussfrist für die Geltendmachung von Ausgleichsberechtigungen ist der letzte Tag der zentralen Frist, 16 Uhr. Textnachrichten in AGNES werden hingegen nicht gelesen!
Die Veranstaltung wurde 10 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis WiSe 2025/26 gefunden:
