Archives/Databases 2

Joshua Thompson

https://web.archive.org/web/20150424032216/https://idrh.ku.edu/colang-workshops

Time: 8:30am – 10:00am

Week 2: 25 - 28 June 2012

Meeting Location: 455 Watson Library

This course will proceed from where Databases 1 leaves off. We will discuss the principles of digital text encoding and Unicode, problems in digital text storage and display, and the interactions of fonts with text encoding. We will also explore archives, data permanence, and issues in metadata development and standardization. Depending on how much students progress in the preceding course, we may continue with SQL-based database design, and will explore how relational databases compare with other methods of structuring, storing, and accessing data. We may also investigate moving data in and out of databases via plain text, XML, and ad-hoc techniques, and how to prepare data for different types of presentation and use.