IG Digital Practices in History and Ethnography

This session will provide an overview of work over the last two years by the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group, describing the latest in a series of project-shares that began fall 2013 (supplemented by interviews with project leads), a new series of "issues-shares" that have brought other interest groups into dialogue with this group, and progress thus far advancing an RDA working group on metadata standards for researcher-created primary data (recorded interviews, fieldnotes, etc.) in the empirical humanities (folklore, ethnography, oral history, etc.) . The session will include time for introductions, to discuss how the work of this group compares to other groups (such as the new interest group focused on development data), and the possible need for a new interest group with a broader focus on the digital humanities.