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Ursula Lehmkuhl: Building Data Competencies for Historians: Perspectives from the NFDI4Memory ‘Data Literacy’ Program

The NFDI consortium 4memory includes a task area that focuses on enhancing Data Literacy in historically oriented research and education. This task area seeks to promote cultural change in the historical profession by developing methodological and curricular innovations, aiming to integrate Data Literacy competencies at all levels of history education. This includes BA, MA, and PhD programs, as well as specialized courses in area history (e.g., African, Asian, and Latin American histories). We emphasize mainstreaming Data Literacy rather than limiting it to specialized programs, fostering a global and interdisciplinary approach to historical research under digital conditions. The presentation explores issues surrounding digital hermeneutics, historical data criticism, and the distinct challenges posed by area histories.

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Pim Huijnen: Was nützt die Fussnote? Datafizierung und Qualitätskontrolle in den (digitalen) Geschichtswissenschaften  

Was bedeutet es, wenn Historiker:innen behaupten, “die Wahrheit” zu erzählen? Diese Frage, die Geschichtstheoretiker:innen schon seit Jahrzehnten, wenn nicht gar Jahrhunderten, beschäftigt, hat in Zeiten der Digitalisierung und Datafizierung noch an Bedeutung gewonnen. In meinem Vortrag werde ich darlegen, dass diese Frage nicht nur für jene Historiker:innen, die sich selbst als „digital“ wahrnehmen, eine hohe Relevanz besitzt, sondern für die gesamte Forschungsgemeinschaft. Mein Argument ist, dass die Datafizierung alle Historiker:innen angeht, und, dass wir den höheren Ansprüchen an Transparenz und Qualitätskontrolle, die mit der Digitaliserierung und Datafizierung einhergehen, dadurch begegnen können, dass wir als Disziplin die Kriterien der Replizierbarkeit und Reproduzierbarkeit in unseren Forschungsprozess integrieren – oder zumindest weniger stark ablehnen als es bislang der Fall zu sein scheint.

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Anita Lucchesi: A New Hermeneutics of Practice? Considerations from a 360º experiment on digital public history

Researchers engaged with the digital component have been exploring alternative forms of source criticism, storytelling, and publications for years now, yet the greatest attention still goes to the outputs, while little criticism, if any, is devoted to the process of doing digital work. By building and analyzing a digital public history platform (Memorecord – Memory Harvest), I wanted to make a contribution in this direction. To do so, in my PhD research I took a full hands-on approach to engage with the methodological and epistemological challenges of creating digital scholarship. In my presentation, I will focus on a concrete case study to emphasize the need for a reflexive turn in digital public history projects. The empirical study at stake consisted of investigating memories of Italian and Portuguese immigrants in Luxembourg by establishing a crowdsourcing platform shaped through participatory design principles. The process of building the Memorecord platform, using social media and analyzing the born-digital material exposed the need for a speculative, self-reflexive layer in the making of such a digital public history project.

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