Florence Weber ; Carlo Zwölf ; Arnaud Trouche ; Agnès Tricoche ; José Sastre - ArchEthno - a new tool for sharing research materials and a new method for archiving your own research

jdmdh:11617 - Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, January 16, 2024, Atelier Digit\_Hum - https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.11617
ArchEthno - a new tool for sharing research materials and a new method for archiving your own researchArticle

Authors: Florence Weber ORCID1,25,; Carlo Zwölf ORCID3; Arnaud Trouche 4; Agnès Tricoche ORCID2,56,; José Sastre ORCID7,25,

The archiving of ethnographic material is generally considered a blind spot in ethnographic working methods which place more importance on actual investigations and analysis than on how archives are constructed. A team of computer scientists and ethnographers has built an initial tool for sharing ethnographic materials, based on an SQL relational data model that suited the first survey processed but proved difficult to transpose to other surveys. The team developed a new tool based on dynamic vocabularies of concepts which breaks down archiving into three stages. Firstly ethnographers can select and contextualise their survey materials; secondly they structure them in a database according to the research question discovered during their survey; finally, they share this data with other researchers subject to the opinion of an ethics committee whose members are competent in ethnography.


Volume: Atelier Digit\_Hum
Section: Data deluge: which skills for wich data?
Published on: January 16, 2024
Accepted on: December 14, 2023
Submitted on: July 20, 2023
Keywords: multidisciplinary research,ethnographic method,survey materials,database,ethics committee,epistemology,data sharing,[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology,[INFO.INFO-DB]Computer Science [cs]/Databases [cs.DB],[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology

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