The Responsibility of Reinvention: Digital Humanities in the Service of Cultural Resilience
Chair: Cobo Betancourt, Juan

Ruin, Reinvention, Resilience:Building digital libraries for long-term preservation and access

Antonijević, Smiljana (1); Stanković, Radomir (2); Ubois, Jeff (3)

1: Illinois Institute of Technology; 2: Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Arts abd Sciences; 3: Better World Libraries

This paper presets the project “From Ruin to Resilience: Digital Revival of the National Library of Serbia." We first summarize the theoretical foundation of the project, and then outline key research activities and insights, as well as the principles of decentralized preservation implemented in the project.


Who is actually looking at this? Lessons from small museums and their international online audiences

Charlesworth, Ellen (1); Warwick, Claire (1); Impett, Leonardo (2); Ballatore, Andrea (3); Larkin, Jamie (4)

1: Durham University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Cambridge; 3: King's College London; 4: University of Warwick

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This paper explores two case studies of small UK museums with unexpectedly high levels of online engagement from international historic diaspora communities. Situating their strategies in broader sector trends, we use a large-scale analysis of online content and supplementary interviews to explore how they successfully encouraged a dialogue between communities.


Visibility, Transparency, and Exposure: DH Ethics and Responsible Human SubjectsResearch

Losh, Elizabeth

William and Mary, United States of America

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This presentation discusses the need for more guidelines about research ethics in the digital humanities from the perspective of recent work on ethics by internet researchers with a focus on issues around visibility, transparency, and exposure and an analysis of case studies with project partners of the Equality Lab.