Data

The "Personenstandsaufnahme" of 10 October 1941, a census conducted by the German occupier in Luxembourg with additional questions on nationality, mother tongue and ethnicity, is one of the best-known historical events in Luxembourg's contemporary history. Together with the strike against forced recruitment in August/September 1942, it remains an integral part of the culture of remembrance and historiography to this day.

"An intellectual history of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) - new sources, unconventional approaches’' - Interdisciplinary seminar, Bucharest University for Economic Studies (BUES), 10 May 2024. This seminar is part of the "Interdisciplinary Research Seminars Series" organised by the Bucharest University for Economic Studies (BUES) for PhD-, Post-Doc students, researchers and teachers in the framework of the Research Programme "European Governance" (EUGov). (Bucharest, 8-10 May 2024)

"Theories, principles and institutions of European integration" - Interdisciplinary seminar, Bucharest University for Economic Studies (BUES), 9 May 2024. This seminar is part of the "Interdisciplinary Research Seminars Series" organised by the Bucharest University for Economic Studies (BUES) for PhD-, Post-Doc students, researchers and teachers in the framework of the Research Programme "European Governance" (EUGov). (Bucharest, 8-10 May 2024)

Despite its historical divisions, Europe was built on a shared set of ideas, ranging from Greco-Latin humanism to the principles of the French Revolution. Over the centuries, many emperors, princes and conquerors, but also philosophers, writers and legal experts developed theories on the rapprochement of the peoples of Europe.

This chapter is not intended to offer an exhaustive state of the art, but rather to reflect on the evolving trends in the history of data networks. It highlights prominent topics within this history. It starts with the narratives surrounding ARPANET and explores government support, competition among companies, governance, and regulation. It looks at how the history of the Internet is linked with the history of pre-networking technologies and alternative developments in networking technologies in countries outside the United States.

The “Always already computational. Collections as data” paradigm coined by a research project of the same name has since 2016 received a strong resonance among libraries, archives and other GLAM institutions worldwide. Many of them strive to offer access to their data and are experimenting with public APIs, dedicated data labs, data dumps, and even closed computing environments. In parallel, the decidedly computational analysis of cultural heritage data has emerged as a vibrant subfield which so far produced a dedicated journal, a conference series, workshops and monographs.

Access to API is strategic for archiving and research. The recent European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) might be a decisive step forwards. But a recent report showed that the platforms’ policies set up to conform to the DSA are very diverse. And the efficiency of those APIs for researchers are yet to be evaluated. In other words, the DSA does not put an end to the APIcalypse: it is geographically limited, and the notion of “systemic risk” that is in the DSA remains ambiguous and this ambiguity allows those firms to restrict researchers’ access to their data.

Memes constitute a significant aspect of online digital cultures (see Shifman, 2014; Milner, 2018; Denisova, 2016). Their role in reactions to events like the Ukrainian war highlights their broad influence. However, preserving memes, especially in their original context, proves challenging (Pailler & Schafer, 2022).

Diese Dissertation untersucht die historische Entwicklung und Bedeutung von Reparatur- und Wartungspraktiken innerhalb des luxemburgischen Telefonnetzwerks. Durch den Fokus auf soziotechnische Systeme (STS) und „broken-world thinking“ bietet die Arbeit einen neuen Blick auf die oft übersehenen Aspekte der Technikgeschichte. Die Studie untersucht einen Zeit-raum von mehr als hundert Jahren (1885–1992) und zielt darauf ab, Dysfunktionen als alltägli-che und essentielle Bestandteile technischer Systeme zu verstehen.

LLODIA is a linguistic linked open data model for diachronic analysis.

Main co-organiser of the Early Scholars Spring School on Web Archives At a glance… Dates: from April 23 at 9.00 am to April 24 at 5.30 pm Location: Centre Internet et Société, CNRS, 59-61 rue Pouchet, PARIS Expected attendance: 15 master’s and PhD students (also open to post-doctoral researchers who just started to work with web archives) Topics & activities: keynotes, roundtable discussions, site visits (at BnF Datalab and Ina THEQUE), tools and data exploration, Q&A sessions, and lightning talks by PhD students.

" European Monetary Unification: History, Individuals, Networks" - Presentation at the Interdisciplinary PhD Seminar organised by the Jean Monnet Chair for European Financial Regulation/ Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence EUropean FInancial REsilience and REgulation, University Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi, Romania (Iasi, 23 April, 2024) European Project: ERASMUS-JMO-HEI-TCH-RSC-101085352

Presentation of Ranke.2, a project of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), OPERAS 2024 Conference, Zadar, Croatia

Interview with Marina Khomutova, the host of the radio station ARA Russia for Peace in Luxembourg. The first Russian speaking radio program started by Khomutova in 2019 and survived different editors, the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine and lack of the program sponsoring. The purely volunteer project is driven by the enthusiasm of Khomutova striving to keep the Russian speaking media regardless the origin of the guests