This paper reports on a project of modeling and datafying knowledge in a legacy catalog (Quellen zur Geschichte der Juden in den Archiven der neuen Bundesländer (Sources for Jewish History in Archives in the New Federal States of Germany)) that took place in September 2022 during the first DH Jewish Hackathon1 organized by the Moses Mendelssohn…[Read more]

This chapter looks at digital publishing from the perspective of surviving texts from the ancient world, the works of Vergil, Sappho 31, and the Res Gestae Divi Augusti. It asks what looking at examples of very long-term survival may have to tell us about digital preservation in the modern era.

My CHASE-funded PhD in Classical Studies at the Open University, in which this survey played a crucial role, investigated Linked Ancient World Data usability. The survey took place during April-May 2018 and was aimed at anyone involved in Ancient World research, with any level of digital expertise. Questions related to participants’ experiences of…[Read more]

Review of the book “Archival Silences: Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives” edited by Michael Moss and David Thomas. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2021.

Wielded uncritically, the term ‘archival silences’ says more about our inability (or unwillingness) to see beyond the written text, than about the presence of silences in archives. This essay discusses the concept of archival silences as a starting point for archivists to help our users engage critically and generatively with our collections.