# Database support for humanities

<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The DCSR provides support to researchers in the humanities for projects based on </span><span class="md-pair-s" style="box-sizing: border-box;">**<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">structured </span><span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;">*<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">corpora</span>*</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> (databases, digital libraries or collections, etc.)</span>**</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span>

<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The DCSR carries out a technological watch to provide researchers and research groups in the humanities with tools likely to cover some of the digital infrastructure needs encountered in the humanities. In the form of shared services, these tools enable researchers to organise, exploit and expose research databases online thanks to configurable presentation interfaces.</span>

<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The DCSR relies on tools used and supported by a strong community (individuals and institutions). These tools are made available to researchers as </span><span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;">**<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">shared services</span>**</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in order for the DCSR to provide a lasting and sustainable maintenance for the database and their presentation interfaces.</span>

### <span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Database support for humanities</span>

<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The DCSR offers support for each stage of research within the framework of the tools made available :</span>

- <span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;">**<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">planning</span>**</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">: help with the design and management of digital projects based on structured data (needs assessment, choice of tools and technologies, workflow, data management plan (DMP), etc.);</span>
- <span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;">**<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">documentation</span>**</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">: help with the choice of relevant standards (ontologies, vocabularies or authoritative information, technologies) in an open science perspective (technical and semantic interoperability of data) to promote the reuse of data. </span>
- <span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;">**<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">modelling</span>**</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">: to enable data to be used in accordance with researchers' expectations within a database, the DCSR provides guidance with data structuring (conceptual modelling);</span>
- <span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;">**<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">collection</span>**</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">: assistance in setting up a workflow in accordance with good practices, with the aim of importing data in batches into a database (file naming policy, organisation of metadata, etc.);</span>
- <span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;">**<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">storage</span>**</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">: the DCSR is in charge of storage and data backup procedures and handles the maintenance of the infrastructure within the framework of the shared tools provided;</span>
- <span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">analysis: -</span>
- <span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;">**<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">exposure</span>**</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">: depending on the needs of the project, and within the limits of the possibilities of the tools deployed, the DCSR can configure specific presentation interfaces for databases;</span>
- <span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;">**<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">preservation</span>**</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">: the DCSR can coordinate the transfer of research data into a FAIR data repository in order to insure their long term availability when a database is no longer maintained;</span>
- <span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">reuse: -</span>

### <span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Terms of service</span>

<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">TBD</span>

### <span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Contact</span>

<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Researchers are encouraged to contact the DCSR well in advance (2 months) if the intended support is to help submit a project to a funding agency. Researchers should fill this </span><span class="md-pair-s " style="box-sizing: border-box;">**<span class="md-meta-i-c  md-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">[<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">form</span>](https://ls.dcsr.unil.ch/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=671546&lang=fr) </span>**</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">in order to provide the necessary details regarding the project.</span>

<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alternatively, for a one-time request, researchers can also contact directly the following people:</span>

- <span class="md-meta-i-c  md-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">[<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marion Rivoal</span>](mailto:marion.rivoal@unil.ch)</span><span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> -- coordination with researchers, needs assessment, data modelling, good pratices in digital project management</span>
- <span class="md-meta-i-c  md-link" style="box-sizing: border-box;">[<span class="md-plain" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Loïc Jaouen</span>](mailto:loic.jaouen@unil.ch)</span><span class="md-plain md-expand" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> -- infrastructure, technical assessment and technical support, good pratices in digital project management</span>