ELPHi, Electronic Library of Public History: Recent submissions

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    • Technology and Historic Preservation: Documentation and Storytelling 

      Chhaya, Priya <National Trust for Historic Preservation>; Murray, Reina <Johns Hopkins University, USA> (P. Chhaya, R. Murray, "Technology and Historic Preservation: Documentation and Storytelling", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 243-258, 2022)
      Over the last few decades transformation within the field of historic pres-ervation has involved the nearly parallel tracks of expanding the histories beingpreserved and a constantly shifting technological landscape. This ...

    • Digital Public History in the United States 

      Cauvin, Thomas <Colorado State University, United States> (T. Cauvin, "Digital Public History in the United States", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 235-242, 2022)
      Digital history goes, by definition, beyond national frontiers, but can one de-cipher national specificities in its practices and projects? This chapter explores thebirth, development, and institutionalization of digital ...

    • Spaces: What’s at Stake in Their Digital Public Histories? 

      Coulter, Kimberly <Bavarian State Painting Collection in Munich, Germany>; Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von <Humboldt University in Berlin>; Jørgensen, Finn Arne <University of Stavanger, Norway> (K. Coulter, W. G. von Hardenberg, F. Arne Jørgensen, "Spaces: What’s at Stake in Their Digital Public Histories?", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 223-234, 2022)
      Public histories of spaces are often at the heart of territorial claims: theycan cultivate emotional identification, oreven build legitimizing facts on the ground.Digital technologies have increased public awareness of, ...

    • Learning Public History by doing Public History 

      Kelly, Mills <George Mason University, USA> (M.Kelly, "Learning Public History by doing Public History”, in Handbook of Digital Public History,Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 211-222, 2022)
      How should we teach public history undergraduate students the digitalliteracy and skills they will need in their future careers as public historians? Thisessay examines the current state of teaching digital public history ...

    • Publishing Public History in the Digital Age 

      Rittgerodt, Rabea <De Gruyter publ., Germany> (R. Rittgerodt, "Publishing Public History in the Digital Age", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 199-210, 2022)
      Publishers have to adapt their work, service and support through allkinds of changes being brought on by the digital age. Historians, especially publichistorians, have long been very active and innovative when publishing ...

    • Digital Public History in Libraries 

      Väljataga, Marii <European University Institute, Florence> (M. Väljataga, "Digital Public History in Libraries", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 185-198, 2022)
      This chapter explores digital public history practices in libraries and pointsto the opportunities, imperatives, successes, and challenges therein. It discusses con-temporary library operations and the novel ways in which ...

    • Interactive Museum & Exhibitions in Digital Public History Projects and Practices: An Overview and the Unusual Case of M9 Museum 

      Di Giacomo, Michelangela <M9 Museum di Mestre, Italia>; Karrer, Livio <M9 Museum di Mestre, Italia> (M. Di Giacomo, L. Karrer, "Interactive Museum & Exhibitions in Digital Public History Projects and Practices: An Overview and the Unusual Case of M9 Museum", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 175-184, 2022)
      How are museums evolving in their mission of being institutions not anymore dedicated only to collect and preserve heritage? What are some of the chal-lenges museums face today? How is the impact of new technologies affecting ...

    • History Museums: Enhancing Audience Engagement through Digital Technologies 

      Walker, William S. <State University of New York, USA> (W. S. Walker, "History Museums: Enhancing Audience Engagement through Digital Technologies", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 165-174, 2022)
      This essay argues that simply putting a museum’s collection online, or cre-ating a digital kiosk that includes a collections database, does not constitute audienceengagement. History museums utilize the tools and methods ...

    • Archivists as Peers in Digital Public History 

      Owens, Trevor <U.S. Library of Congress, Washington>; Johnston, Jesse A. <Library of Congress, Washington, USA> (T. Owens, J.A. Johnston, "Archivists as Peers in Digital Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 149-164, 2022)
      In the last three decades the web has enabled new digital means for his-torians to reach broader publics and audiences. Over that same period of time, ar-chives and archivists have engaged in a parallel digital transformation. ...

    • Digital Hermeneutics: The Reflexive Turn in Digital Public History? 

      Fickers, Andreas <University of RWTH Aachen, Germany> (A. Fickers, "Digital Hermeneutics: The Reflexive Turn in Digital Public History?", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 139-148, 2022)
      The digital–be it in forms of data, infrastructures, or tools–interferes atall levels in the practice of doing public history. This chapter argues that digitalpublic historians have to reflect more deeply on the epistemological ...

    • Past and Present in Digital Public History 

      Ravveduto, Marcello <Università di Salerno> (M. Ravveduto, Past and Present in Digital Public History, in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 131-138, 2022)
      The author examines the relationship between past and present to reflecton the perception of time in the era of the digital revolution. The time of digital pres-entism is not linear but circular. The arrival point coincides ...

    • Open Access: an opportunity to redesign scholarly communication in history 

      Mounier, Pierre <director of OpenEdition, France> (P. Mounier, "Open Access: an opportunity to redesign scholarly communication in history", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 121-130, 2022)
      While the adoption of open access to academic publications was slowerand more difficult in the humanities and in particular in history than in the scien-tific and technical disciplines, it is today more and more widely ...

    • Combining Values of Museums and Digital Culture in Digital Public History 

      Esten, Emily <University of Pennsylvania Libraries> (E. Esten, "Combining Values of Museums and Digital Culture in Digital Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 107-120, 2022)
      Museum professionals have increasingly introduced technology intohistorical spaces, and history into technological spaces, to augment or transformthe preservation of knowledge and artifacts; the sharing and creation of ...

    • Digital Environmental Humanities 

      MacFadyen, Joshua <University of Prince Edward Island in Canada> (J. MacFadyen, "Digital Environmental Humanities", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 97-106, 2022)
      Over the last half century, the environmental humanities has become a newinterdisciplinary and digitally engaged field with unique public impact and participa-tion. Its fields include older disciplines such as history, ...

    • Identities – a historical look at online memory and identity issues 

      Gebeil, Sophie <Aix Marseille University, France> (S. Gebeil, "Identities – a historical look at online memory and identity issues", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 87-96, 2022)
      Since the 1990s, profound changes linked to the globalization of both eco-nomic activities and information, as well as increased individual mobility have givenrise to questions about national identities. This has occurred ...

    • Digital Public Archaeology 

      Bonacchi, Chiara <University of Stirling, UK> (C. Bonacchi, "Digital Public Archaeology". Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 77-86, 2022)
      This essay introduces Digital Public Archaeology and its relation with neigh-boring fields of research and practice. This is achieved by reviewing, exemplifying andcritically reflecting upon a selection of relevant themes, ...

    • Shifting the Balance of Power: Oral History and Public History in the Digital Era 

      Larson, Mary <Oklahoma State University Library, USA> (M. Larson, "Shifting the Balance of Power: Oral History and Public History in the Digital Era", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 61-76, 2022)
      Oral history and public history have been interconnected for many years, sharing multiple points of commonality, including a frequent interest in documenting under-documented communities. Both have brought different strengths ...

    • Sharing Authority in Online Collaborative Public History Practices 

      Noiret, Serge <Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze> (S. Noiret, "Sharing Authority in Online Collaborative Public History Practices", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 49-60, 2022)
      Forms of shared authority has become User-generated projects in the digi-tal realm public history practices and projects. New collaborative forms of historymaking through web technologies are ubiquitous worldwide. ...

    • Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content: The Raison d’Être of Digital Public History 

      Noiret, Serge <Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze> (S. Noiret, "Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content: The Raison d’Être of Digital Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 35-48, 2022)
      Digital History is different from digital public history (DPH) and this essaydescribes the central role of crowdsourcing practices in defining the specificity ofDPH. At the end of the 1970s, public history (PH) divided its ...

    • The Historiographical Foundations of Digital Public History 

      Pons, Anaclet (A. Pons, "The Historiographical Foundations of Digital Public History" in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 17-34, 2022)
      Establishing the historiographical foundations in any field is a difficult orat least risky business. It entails granting a certain homogeneity and a good deal ofcoherence to practices, perspectives, and trends that do not ...