Week 6, we finished our Data Management Plan. It was a lot of intense work – we had a very productive Zoom meeting writing it up. The lecture and advice from Steve Zweibel proved very useful. I presented our DMP during class.

Because ours is an archive that uses metadata; we had to think about data management on two levels: management of data we collect, and configuring metadata for the archive.

At this point, I had started looking into Dublincore, so we tried to think of ways to align our naming practices and identifiers with DC. It became clear to me that with our Data Management Plan, we  would be submitting a rough version our metadata, and that we would be refining them further along. It also became clear that planning out this way, although rough at that point, would be critical in guiding our team work.