Heritage Unbound: Empowering Communities through Digital Humanities
Chair: Scheithauer, Hugo

Participatory by Design: Software Development for Community Archives

Boyles, Christina

Michigan State University, United States of America

This presentation will describe how the AREPR team put its values into praxis through participatory design of both the project’s collections and the platform in which they are housed. It also will emphasize how archival practices can be reinvented to create new opportunities for community engagement and social activism.


Towards International Perspectives on Collection Data Infrastructure Development

Humbel, Marco (1); Pearlman, Nina (2); Hill, JD (3); Flinn, Andrew (1); Nyhan, Julianne (1,4)

1: Department of Information Studies UCL, London; 2: UCL Art Collection, London; 3: The British Museum; 4: Technische Universität Darmstadt

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This paper brings together international perspectives on the interests and needs of libraries, archives and museums (‘collecting and heritage organisations’) in collection data infrastructure developments.


RiC and Omeka S for Digital Cultural Heritage Preservation

Willaime, Pierre

Archives Henri-Poincaré / CNRS - Université de Lorraine - Université de Strasbourg, France

This submission presents the results of a theoretical research project on the very long-term preservation of archives. It focuses a specific question: the sharing of archival description information between archival services and scientific research projects with Omeka S and RiC.


Reclaiming Their Time: Developing The Heresies Project as an Intersectional Digital Feminist Resource

Jakacki, Diane; Rothman, Roger; Delsandro, Erica

Bucknell University, United States of America

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The Heresies Project aims to produce a digital resource dedicated to the Heresies journal -- a pioneering work of feminist art and criticism published from 1977 to 1993. The team aims to an open-source accessible digital edition of the issues including TEI-encoded essay texts, high-resolution images, and LOD optimized personography.