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Digital Data/Digitization

Digital data are created through digitalization, which involves converting analog materialsAnalog research materials are artifacts or objects of ritual or everyday use. They are created or collected during ethnographic fieldwork and may include items such as photographs, notes, books, audio tapes, drawings, or sculptures. To make these materials reusable online, they must first be digitized and provided with appropriate metadata, allowing them to be made accessible in a repository, for example (Forschungsdaten.info, 2023). The organization OpenAIRE provides guidelines for the secure handling of analog, non-digital research datasee: https://www.openaire.eu/non-digital-data-guide. Read More into formats suitable for electronic storage on digital media. Digital data offer the advantage of being easily and accurately duplicated, shared, and machine-processed.