Data

An Interactive Panel Discussion on History, Technology, and the Transformation of the Archive, convened by Milan van Lange and Gerben Zaagsma.

In this paper, we relate participatory design (PD) scholarship with public history (PH) research, deepening the understanding of the relationship of PD with history, focusing on "history with PD". The latter refers to when history itself is explicitly the object of participation, and we discuss it by presenting a secondary analysis of a PH project, HistorEsch, conducted through the conceptual lens of infrastructuring. In this way, we show how PD and PH practices consider the past of a place and how they relate to public formation, intermediation, and proliferation.

This poster will introduce DHARPA (the Digital History Advanced Research Accelerator project) and its innovative data orchestration tool, kiara, demonstrating its applications for digital history through the research projects of three associated PhD students, exemplifying its application in practical research. It also aims to demonstrate the software’s ability to formalise research transparency and critical reflection of humanities datasets.

In our digitally evolving world, educators of history face the challenge of preparing students for an unpredictable future of rich and overwhelming data amidst a society of rapidly evolving technologies. This panel advocates for incorporating advanced tools at early educational levels to meet contemporary undergraduate teaching challenges and promote historical thinking. It is divided into three papers, each dedicated to a specific digital tool: Omeka S, Tropy, and GenAI. We argue that these tools provide invaluable

This short presentation delves into the ongoing interdisciplinary effort to create an efficient digital workflow for collecting, researching, and archiving born-digital audio testimonies from the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Introduction of the book Online Virality. Spread and Influence (edited by Schafer and Pailler)

From the ‘Dancing baby’, ‘All your base are belong to us’ and the ‘Hampster dance’ in the second half of the 1990s to Bernie’s mittens at the US presidential inauguration, through to ‘Disaster girl’ and ‘Distracted boyfriend’, among others, memes have become an important part of our (visual) digital culture over the last 20 years. This article demonstrates why memes should be considered a critical part of our born-digital heritage, by examining their connections to digital histories and trajectories, as well as their role in pop, visual and digital culture.

For several years now, images generated by artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems such as midjourney, DALL·E or StableDiffusion, to give just a few examples, have become commonplace. Like text-generating systems such as GPT, LLAMA or BLOOM, they are based on interaction with users, which notably results in the writing of prompts. The aim of our current research is to examine the various means at our disposal for transforming not only generated images and texts but also prompts into primary sources for historians.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a powerful tool for spatial analysis. In historical research GIS are used for mapping, georeferencing, and data analysis. Layering information offers new ways to evaluate historical data and construct arguments. But GIS offer a myriad of choices for data modeling and visualization, so users should remain critical and conscious of their entire workflow processes. In the following, I employ the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis framework to systematically evaluate the implications of using GIS in historical research.

The book Online Virality, edited by Valérie Schafer and Fred Pailler (C2DH, University of Luxembourg), aims to provide a comprehensive examination of online virality. It explores the many ways we can think about this modern phenomenon and analyse the circulation, reception, and evolution of viral born-digital content. Virality and content sharing always intertwine material, infrastructural, visual and discursive elements. This involves various platforms, stakeholders, intermediaries, social groups and communities that are constantly (re)defining themselves.

The middle classes have had more internal clashes than external. A plethora of intermediary categories is necessary to understand this historical period. And these go beyond the “black and white”nobility/middle-class and the rest. Everywhere the slightest division of the intermediary layers could pave the way to new social discriminations. What did this vast middle-class have in common? Despite their differences, industrialists, merchants, rentiers, high school teachers, higher civil servants what united them?

The interconnections of the environment and human beings have been largely researched by scientists. This chapter provides an overview of different concepts and theories on environmental science, happiness and wellbeing as well as their interconnections; looking at past, present and potential future development. The past section covers the evolution of the concepts: ‘environment’ and ‘environmental sciences’, and the development of the disciplines in relation to happiness and wellbeing.

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Luigi Einaudi, this event will reflect on his legacy for Europe today. As Prof. Giovanni Farese stated in his research paper dedicated to this outstanding Italian intellectual '' Economist, professor and senator before the Second World War governor of the Bank of Italy (1945-1948) and minister of the budget (1947-1948), after the war Einaudi was also the first president of the Italian Republic (1948-1955). In these capacities he was a strong advocate of European integration: he even imagined a common currency and a central bank.

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.

This PhD project explores the ways in which public urban green spaces (PUGS) shaped an urban citizenry. As mirrors of societal relations, PUGS reflect the relationship between government officials, city planners and urban citizens, labor and recreation. Set in the aftermath of WWII and continuing until the First Oil Shock in 1973 this study captures a time of urban restructuring and rebuilding in Western Europe. The focus lies on public parks around the port areas of Hamburg and Marseille. Both cities are marked by the specific labor/lifestyle related to port cities: People are in flux.