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The online exhibition “Minett Stories” (https://minett-stories.lu) was developed in connection with Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. The aim of the “Remixing Industrial Pasts for the Digital Age” (REMIX) project was to tell the history of the Minett, the industrial region in the south of Luxembourg, to a broad audience.

This chapter explores the evolving landscape of web archiving. It considers how web archives document challenging times, may help to analyse them, and respond to events, disruptions, social demands, and crises. It examines emergency response practices and research trends. The chapter also addresses current and forthcoming challenges such as adapting to platformization, AI, the closure of APIs, and evolving legal frameworks.

The rise of public history is the result of an unfolding technological-epistemological transformation. Gradual changes in media technologies, historiography, museology and museography until well into the 1970s can be considered as a pre-history of public history. During the last third of the twentieth century the rise of memory and related historiographical changes went hand in hand with an increased influence of analogue and digital media that impacted communication, documentation and preservation.

The online exhibition “Minett Stories” (https://minett-stories.lu) tells the history of the Minett, the industrial region in the south of Luxembourg. Instead of telling the history of mining and smelting technologies, large iron works and steel barons, the project team decided to present the everyday history of an industrial region, focusing on the time span from the industrialization of the region in around 1870 to the steel crisis of the 1970s.

La période d’occupation française des territoires qui composent l’actuelle Belgique est souvent associée à un bref intermède entre le régime autrichien et le régime hollandais, débouchant sur l’Indépendance belge de 1830. Pourtant, durant la courte période allant de 1795 à 1815 s’est déroulé le plus grand et le plus radical chamboulement de l’histoire de ces régions. Chamboulement culturel, économique, et, non des moindres, administratif. À ce niveau, le nouveau découpage du territoire est sans doute l’élément le plus flagrant.

„Minett Stories“ (https://minett-stories.lu) erzählt für ein breites Publikum die Geschichte des Minetts, der Industrieregion im Süden Luxemburgs. Sie stellt nicht die Entwicklung der Bergbau- und Hüttentechnik, der großen Hüttenwerke und Stahlbarone in den Mittelpunkt, sondern die Alltagsgeschichte einer Industrieregion. Die Online-Ausstellung wurde im Mai 2022 im Rahmen der Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt Esch2022 der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. Der Vortrag beschreibt die Entwicklung und Umsetzung des Ausstellungskonzepts.

Digital humanities has a critical role in the progress of the data visualisation field. First, humanities scholars engage with the concept of knowledge as interpretation. Second, they leverage computational tools and statistical methods to analyse and visualise data and metadata. Finally, Digital Humanities projects are a space for experimentation where different epistemic cultures (which often go beyond the Humanities and Computer Science) negotiate new forms of knowledge.

Guest editors Johanna Jaschik, Machteld Venken, and Birte Wassenberg bring time into border studies with this new collection, Border Temporalities in and Beyond Europe, featuring 12 research articles. The new issue also includes a portfolio, poetry, policy work, and more!