I'd like to make sure that any primer included a section on metadata - what it is, what it can do, how to document it and how to present it to users. This would probably be part of the project management primer (or section of primer) suggested by Kathryn Powell. [Metadata is "data about data": a library catalog record, descriptive and technical information about electronic files, descriptions of image processing, etc.]
For the past year I've been putting together a metadata framework for the Electronic Boethius project (using METS, the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/), and recently presented my findings at the Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, so metadata is in the forefront of my mind at the moment!
Dot Porter
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The UK's Arts and Humanities Data Service has a number of excellent on-line Guides to Good Practice that are applicable. The whole catalog can be found at (http://www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/index.htm). I especially like Ian Gregory's "A Place in History: A Guide to Using GIS in Historical Research".
Rob Haug Department of Near Eastern Studies University of Michigan
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