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        Date: 2024-01-05 17:02:10+00:00
        From: Gerben Zaagsma <gerben.zaagsma@eui.eu>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.369: name of the first ALLC/ACH conference; archiving

Dear all,

I am very happy to see the discussion that followed Alan Liu’s question and
wanted to chime in with some news.

In the past months myself and Julianne Nyhan have been setting up a project
infrastructure for Histories of Digital Humanities which we aim to publish
online before the Summer of 2024.

This will consist of a project website, which should function as an information
hub, a Zotero group library and an Omeka S instance which we plan use to present
materials and function as an online archive. We also started to use an internal
Nextcloud instance to gather materials, but for copyright reasons this cannot be
opened up; the idea is that we use this internal cloud archive to feed into
public Omeka sites (following copyright clearance). The overall idea is to start
small and slowly build up resources and a community around them. The whole thing
is currently hosted on Reclaim’s EU servers (which offers stellar support btw).

Those of you who are interested in collaborating in this project, please do get
in touch. The ultimate aim is to create a community of people interested in and
working on all aspects of histories of digital humanities.

To give a little bit of background, my own work and new book project is
currently about the history of digital history, set within the broader context
of how new technologies have shaped historical research practices and knowledge
production since at least the late 19th century. A programmatic article I wrote
on this is currently under review and I hope it will be out this year. At the
C²DH in Luxembourg we are now digitising relevant materials, at the moment
mostly those pertaining to the history and computing era from the 1980s to early
2000s (AHC proceedings, Halbgraue Reihe zur historischen Fachinformatik, some
newsletters). I also plan a lot of archival research this year and started
collecting web archives of the national branches of the AHC.

As Manfred Thaller suggests, there is plenty of work to be done for the period
1980-2000, let alone earlier decades. And materials, at least for the discpline
of history, come in many different languages (not just English, German, French
but also Dutch, Russian, Polish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish to name a few ). I
have over the past few years digitised many materials myself, and I am sure many
others have too. Finding a way to integrate all this into an online resource
would be a gret step toward filling a documentary void and creating building
blocks for future DH histories.

And a final note: those of you interested in the history if digital history keep
an eye out on this conference: https://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/8726.

With best regards,
Gerben Zaagsma


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