ELPHi, Electronic Library of Public History

A Very Brief Introduction and Summary

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A Very Brief Introduction and Summary Fischer, Franz ; Mantoan, Diego ; Tramelli, Barbara

Lectures that Link. Analyzing European Lecture Series as Nodes of Interaction in the Digital Humanities

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Lectures that Link. Analyzing European Lecture Series as Nodes of Interaction in the Digital Humanities Henny-Krahmer, Ulrike ; Alvares Freire, Fernanda ; Renz, Erik This article aims to investigate the role of lecture series in Digital Humanities as a field of research within the European context over the past decade. Lecture series, widely used in higher education to facilitate scholarly exchange and to engage students, scholars, and broader audiences, have increasingly been adopted in DH since the late 2010s. By collecting and analyzing data from DH lecture series conducted across European institutions, we explore how they serve to connect institutions, researchers, disciplines, and research topics, employing quantitative data analysis.

A Data Atlas Method for Analysing and Visualising Dispersed Cultural Heritage Collections

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A Data Atlas Method for Analysing and Visualising Dispersed Cultural Heritage Collections Vlachidis, Andreas ; MacDonald, Isobel ; Valeonti, Foteini ; Nyhan, Julianne ; Sloan, Kim The history of collecting is important because it can help us to understand how individuals, communities, societies and institutions like museums have sought to understand, capture, create and even contest their worlds. Yet researchers attempting to trace the movement of objects and collections between and within cultural heritage institutions are faced with complex data environments. Challenges relate to the intricacies of scope, size, availability, coverage, legacy attributes, level of digitisation and manifestation of collections, that often persist both within and between institutions. This complexity can impede data-driven collections research and likewise hinder infrastructural projects that seek to aggregate and digitally reconnect dispersed heritage collections. This paper accordingly proposes a methodological framework, the Collection Data Atlas, for mapping the informational landscape of complex cultural heritage collections that span institutions, information systems, epochs and materialities. Drawing on the research of the AHRC-funded ‘Sloane Lab: looking back to build future shared collections’ project, this paper presents an application of this framework, the Sloane Data Atlas as a synthesis and visualisation of the complex bibliographic and data environment of the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, the founding collection of the UK heritage sector.

The Genetic Dossier in the Web of Data. From Documentary Collections to a Scholarly Archive

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The Genetic Dossier in the Web of Data. From Documentary Collections to a Scholarly Archive Pereira, Elsa While archivists and genetic scholars differ considerably in their methodological frameworks, the digital turn in archival preservation and scholarly editing provides an opportunity to narrow the gap. This article examines how Semantic Web technologies can bridge differing approaches to documentary collections of contemporary authors, while also outlining two current challenges to this pursuit: some limitations of LOD in representing genetic dossiers in informative ways and a series of legal issues that prevent digital scholarly archives of genetic orientation from realising their full potential in the Web of Data.