One of several workshops in the "Digital Humanist's Help Desk" series.

What are some of the ethical challenges researchers face when choosing to work with data? This session will help you assess the potential benefits and risks of collecting, analyzing, and sharing data and provide you with some practical tools to help you assess data needs and assume an ethical data practice in your next project. This workshop will be offered online only.

Having attended this workshop, participants can expect to be able to:

• Demonstrate familiarity with some principles and precedents for data ethics
• Understand the data life cycle and key actions at each step of the cycle for making and sharing data more ethically
• Identify tools and resources that can start the process of putting principles into action

Intended audience:

Anyone is welcome, including attendees not affiliated with Penn. Although the workshop material is discipline-agnostic, it may be most beneficial for those working in arts, humanities, or social science contexts.

About the instructor:

Cynthia Heider is the Public Digital Scholarship Librarian at Penn Libraries, where she works to initiate and support digital projects, scholarship, and programming that center community partnerships and public engagement. She previously worked in a number of roles that centered working with humanities data in cultural heritage and archives. Cynthia holds a Master's degree in history from Temple University’s Center for Public History as well as a BA in history from Goucher College.