ELPHi, Electronic Library of Public History: Recent submissions
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Modeling Data Complexity in Public History and Cultural Heritage
(G. Barabucci, F. Tomasi, F. Vitali, "Modeling Data Complexity in Public History and Cultural Heritage", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 459-474, 2022)The publication by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums of metadataabout their collections is fundamental for the creation of our shared digital culturalheritage. Yet, we argue, these digital collections are, on one ... -
Big Data and Public History
(F. Clavert, L. Wieneke, "Big Data and Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 447-458, 2022)In this chapter, we define big data in history in three ways: (1) big data implies the use of an amount of data that the historian’s personal computer cannot deal with; (2) the data historians are using must be either ... -
Linked Open Data & Metadata
(C. Meghini, "Linked Open Data & Metadata", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 439-446, 2022)This article considers linked data, starting with the four rules drawn up in 2006 by the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, to produce this kind of data: (1) to use a web standard, the Internationalized Resource Identifier ... -
Content Management
(G. Zaagsma, "Content Management", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 431-438, 2022)The use of content management systems (CMSes) in public history is a rel-atively new phenomenon that has greatly enhanced the possibilities of presenting,curating and narrating history online. As CMSes have become increasingly ... -
Historical GIS
(P. Mogorovich, E. Salvatori, "Historical GIS", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 419-430, 2022)The historical GIS is, without any doubt, a powerful means of communica-tion of historical phenomena for the public and also of collecting georeferenceablehistorical source through crowdsourcing activities, but the complexity ... -
What does it Meme? Public History in the Internet Memes Era
(M. Di Legge, F. Mantovani, I.Meloni, "What does it Meme? Public History in the Internet Memes Era", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 405-418, 2022)The aim of this chapter is to investigate the risks and the potentialities ofinternet memes (units of culture spreading online from user to user and mutatingalong the way) in terms of historical narration on digital ... -
As Seen through Smartphones: An Evolution of Historic Information Embedment
(B. Oppegaard, "As Seen through Smartphones: An Evolution of Historic Information Embedment", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 395-404, 2022)People who want to learn about history also want to learn about it in theways and through the media that they prefer. Sometimes it happens by reading abook, with the learner at home in a comfy chair in front of a fire. But ... -
Planning with the Public: How to Co-develop Digital Public History Projects?
(P. Feliciati, "Planning with the Public: How to Co-develop Digital Public History Projects?", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 385-394, 2022)Digital public history, when possible, should be planned with the public,not merely for the public. The involvement of an audience in projects has to be pur-sued considering the dimensions related to human-computer interaction ... -
Digital Personal Memories: The Archiving of the Self and Public History
(V. Schafer, "Digital Personal Memories: The Archiving of the Self and Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 377-384, 2022)By providing a facilitated access to data storage, digital technologies seemto make expression and preservation of the self more straightforward. They reconfi-gure the means and forms of access to data, thus also affecting ... -
Digital Public History: Family History and Genealogy
(J. de Groot, "Digital Public History: Family History and Genealogy", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 369-376, 2022)This chapter looks at the use of digital resources in family history. In-creasingly, family history is being supported by digital means, and participantsare often leaders in terms of using online and digital tools in their ... -
Activist Digital Public History
(L. Kelland, "Activist Digital Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 359-368, 2022)Digital Public History can provide social movement activists with tools forcultural activism, and collaborations between activists and academics have ad-vanced social justice discourse within the field. Activists, archivists, ... -
Living History: Performing the Past
(D. Dean, "Living History: Performing the Past", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 349-358, 2022)This contribution explores a variety of ways in which history has beenperformed digitally in the hope of making the past come to life and imbuing it withsignificance for audiences. Bringing the perspectives of a public ... -
Cybermemorials: Remembrance and Places of Memory in the Digital Age
(S. Camarda, "Cybermemorials: Remembrance and Places of Memory in the Digital Age", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 337-348, 2022)The rise of user-generated media culture and the diffusion of digital tech-nologies have contributed to the production of new forms of mnemonic practices thatcoexist with, enhance, or altogether replace traditional memorial ... -
Building Communities, Reconciling Histories: Can We Make a More Honest History?
(R. S Wingo, W. G. Thomas, "Building Communities, Reconciling Histories: Can We Make a More Honest History?", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 327-336, 2022)Using case studies, Rebecca S. Wingo and William G. Thomas III seek todefine how historians define and engage with“community”in digital spaces. Theyidentify three types of digital communities (user groups, hybrid projects, ... -
Individuals in the Crowd: Privacy, Online Participatory Curation, and the Public Historian as Private Citizen
(T. S. Gordon, "Individuals in the Crowd: Privacy, Online Participatory Curation, and the Public Historian as Private Citizen", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 317-326, 2022)This essay examinesNC HB2: A Citizens’History, a digital project that gath-ers materials related to North Carolina House Bill 2, also known as“the bathroombill,”legislation that promoted discrimination against transgender ... -
Gaming and Digital Public History
(N. Nolden, E. Pfister, "Gaming and Digital Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 309-316, 2022)Over the past 50 years the part of digital games in our everyday’s mediause has consistently grown. They are thus an extremely revealing source for publichistory. This chapter argues that digital games are among other ... -
Mapping and Maps in Digital and Public History
(F. Gibbs, "Mapping and Maps in Digital and Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 301-308, 2022)It is logical that the generalization of digital approaches in history is leading to a democratization of the graphic representation of the data produced by these processes. Rather than presenting long series of examples, ... -
Data Visualization for History
(M. Grandjean, "Data Visualization for History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 291-300, 2022)It is logical that the generalization of digital approaches in history is leading to a democratization of the graphic representation of the data produced by these processes. Rather than presenting long series of examples, ... -
Curation: Toward a New Ethic of Digital Public History
(M. Tebeau, "Curation: Toward a New Ethic of Digital Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 277-290, 2022)This essay argues that a new curatorial ethic has emerged at the heart of digital public history, reflecting a flourishing of curatorial work in the broad culture. Everyone has become a curator: the disc jockey who spins ... -
Social Media: Snapshots in Public History
(F. Armaselu, "Social Media: Snapshots in Public History", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 259-276, 2022)This chapter provides an overview of how social media foster the applica-tion of public history and communication with the public, and what types of insti-tutions, projects, and communities are involved in the process. ...
