Rangoon Protest Data
Photo from the 1988 protests that happened in Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar).
Photo credited to the New York Times.
DATA PROFILE ON RANGOON PROTEST DATA
Data Curator | June - August 2020
Created in Winter 2020 for an assignment for a course on Data Curation at the University of Washington. The 8888 Nationwide Popular Pro-Democracy Protests, also known as the 8-8-88 Uprisings, were a series of nationwide protests, marches and civil unrest in Burma (Myanmar). On August 8, 1988, university students, monks, and workers took to the streets demanding democracy from the military junta who had been in power since 1962. I have personal interest in the history of the politics in Burma because my mom left Burma for the U.S. in the 1960s.
I created a data profile on the Rangoon Summer: 1988 Protest Data, intra-day data on protest and repression during the uprising. The project included creating a data dictionary, analyzing reuse potential, and recommending data curation needs and maintenance for lifelong use and reuse.
