I’m the new National Librarian’s Research Fellow in Digital Scholarship for 2024-25 at the National Library of Scotland. During the following year, I will work towards proving that web archives are far from boring. What the heck is a web archive?
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I continue this blog from Edinburgh, where I've been appointed as a Chancellor's Fellow in Humanities Informatics. Wanna know what I'm going to do up North?
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It's like the start of a lousy whodunnit: 50 tense people from different backgrounds who do not necessarily want to be there but must be locked together. This is how the mandatory Research Communications class I randomly found myself leading and building from scratch started. How did I do?
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The Unforgotten Lives exhibition, a collaboration between the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA), Mapping Black London (MBL), and Northeastern University London, has launched! The exhibition displays the Switching the Lens dataset, a collection of parish records mentioning non-white people in London. I helped design digital components to engage a sense of ‘deep place’, where visitors are encouraged to consider the long-range presence of non-white Londoners by making connections between past and present.
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Ok, this was a wild ride! 23 GLAM professionals and researchers were challenged to set foot in Digital Heritage within two days. Brave people. But what to teach to give them enough guidance to later grow into a fully blossomed Digital Heritage expert instead of wanting to forget the word “data” on the day after?
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I've recently attended the ABBA Voyage concert and couldn't help to be baffled by the heritage questions it raised. This post explores how we can understand pop music as heritage, how to deal with the question of authenticity and the ethical issues of the digital 're-production' of a concert, whether ABBA is alive or we feel only nostalgia for it, and overall if the ABBA Voyage can be seen as digital heritage.
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Over the past few decades, video games have become one of the most successful and popular forms of entertainment. With over two billion gamers worldwide, scholars have advocated for more research on how representations of past events in video games contribute to our broader cultural understandings. One of the most popular genres is that of war games: where digitally representing a real-life war is the basis of both gameplay and narrative. The Imperial War Museum’s new exhibition, ‘War Games’, provides insight into how they are created and what impact these historical representations of warfare can have on users. I think it is a missed opportunity. Continue reading to learn why.
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It is no news that the pandemic changed our lives but also forced lecturers to find new ways to engage students. As we wanted our international students to maintain their connection to the university site, I created an online scavenger hunt exploring the palimpsest of St Katharine Docks, where our NU London campus stands. Do you think I successfully bridged the gap between online and offline spaces?
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