Local Data 101 is an online course/open educational resource/community for preservation advocates, historians, archaeologists, public historians, historic site managers, archivists and anyone interest in local heritage to learn more about data, mapping and visualizations and how to make these things useful for their work, research, scholarship and activism.
We want to teach people how to work with and manage:
- Metadata
- Geography
- Buildings
- Events
- People/Biographies
- Documents
We are not experts—we are still learning too! Join us to share your experiences and help build Local Data 101 – a Local Preservation School project.
Here are some tools that we are exploring and learning about.
- OpenRefine
- Density Design: Raw
- School of Data
- The Programming Historian
- MapTime: Lessons & Resources
- Institute for Digital Archaeology Methods & Practice: Knowledge Base
- George Mason University CHNM: Doing Digital History
- George Mason University CHNM: Rebuilding the Portfolio: DH for Art Historians
- THATCamp Philly: Intro to Web Mapping and Geodata with CartoDB from Chad Nelson and Scott Williams - Slides, Notes
If you are interested in getting involved, please feel free to fork the repository and add your name to this list. We are working on a set of contributor guidelines for the Local Preservation School to make it easier for anyone to get involved in building this course and others.