Beyond Borders: Exploring the Frontiers of Digital Humanities
Chair: Rißler-Pipka, Nanette

Building a professional digital humanities learning community among Spanish-speaking librarians

Isuster, Marcela

McGill Library, Canada

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Humanidades Digitales en Bibliotecas launched in July of 2023 as an opportunity for Spanish-speaking librarians to connect and learn about digital humanities. This presentation explores the project from its inception to now. It discusses the planning of the events, creating an audience, and managing the initiative.


Introducing Students to Digital Humanities through Collaborative Scholarly Digital Editing – Teacher’s First Impressions

Hałaczkiewicz, Joanna Katarzyna

Jagiellonian University, Poland

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This submission focuses on pedagogical challenges in the digital humanities. The author intends to share her experiences gathered during teaching using the project-based learning method. She also plans to showcase the final results of collaborative work on the scholarly digital edition of a 17th-century printed book.


Reinventing approaches to accessibility within the Digital Paradigm: some Italian case studies

De Bastiani, Chiara; Fabbris, Giulia; Peratello, Paola

Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy

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With this paper, we present three case studies aimed at the valorization of Germanic and Italian Cultural Heritage in Venice and the neighboring territories with the goal of making the data accessible to a wider audience, thereby reinventing approaches to accessibilty of Cultural Heritage.


Mapping Literary Space: A Social Network from the Timeline of Cultural Events

Levchenko, Maria

University of Bologna, Italy

This study applies SNA to analyze literary networks in St Petersburg from 1999 to 2019. By examining co-participation in literary events, we identify key communities and influential figures. Our network graph represents a highly interconnected and cohesive small-world network with robust local clustering and extensive collaboration.


What Is Lost?: “Junk Data” and the Limits of Big Data Management in the Artist Archive

Polyck-O'Neill, Julia G.

University of Guelph, Canada

In this paper, I consider the value of the mundane, material traces of the everyday in the media artist’s archive. I reflect on how innovative practices in digital archives currently obfuscate “junk data” that points to aspects of an artist’s private life and subjective experience and consider how mass digital methods for archive management might address and reconceptualize the relationship between an archival collection and what is most often discarded.