• Big Data and Public History 

      Clavert, Frédéric <University of Luxembourg>; Wieneke, Lars <University of Luxembourg> (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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Curation: Toward a New Ethic of Digital Public History 

      Tebeau, Mark <Arizona State University, USA> (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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • Digital Public History and Photography 

      Biscioni, Raffaella <Università di Bologna> (R. Biscioni, "Digital Public History and Photography", in Handbook of Digital Public History, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 505-516, 2022)
      This essay intends to analyze the current contribution of photography toDigital Public History (DPH) starting from the perspective of changing relationshipbetween photography and memory in the new web context.
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Individuals in the Crowd: Privacy, Online Participatory Curation, and the Public Historian as Private Citizen 

      Gordon, Tammy S. <North Carolina State University> (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 ...
    • 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. ...