Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 233-244
Author(s):  
Jonathan Coopersmith
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Public History ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
The Creation

Jonathan Coopersmith underscores the two major challenges of doing history—finding and preserving archival material, challenges particularly acute for subjects traditionally not collected by archives, such as minority movements. To prevent such future losses and expand archival access, Coopersmith explores how historians, archivists, and other stakeholders can utilize public history tools including oral histories and the digital humanities to encourage the creation and preservation of the widest possible range of appropriate records and histories, especially for historically underrepresented and under-researched areas and people in space exploration and exploitation.

The ROBOMINERS project: a promising tool for the re-evaluation of “non-economical” deposits. Aiming at the development of a joined European database of potentially suitable ore deposits for the utilization of the Robominers technology.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Koutsopoulou ◽  
Aikaterini Servou ◽  
George Aggelopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
National Level ◽  
Ore Deposits ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Mineral Deposits ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Exploration And Exploitation ◽  
Epithermal Deposits ◽  
European Database ◽  
The Creation

<p>The ROBOMINERS (Resilient Bio-inspired Modular Robotic Miner) project aims at developing new methods and technologies (prototype automation and robotics technology) to locate and exploit underground mineral deposits and is funded under the European Union’s Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020. The project targets mineral deposits that are generally considered “non-economical” either because they are not accessible anymore for conventional mining techniques, or they have been previously explored but exploitation was considered uneconomic due to the small size of the deposits or the difficulty to access them (abandoned, small, ultra-depth deposits).</p><p> </p><p>The European Federation of Geologists (EFG) is part of the Robominers consortium and its role includes the collection of publicly available data at a national level on mineral deposits which are potential targets on the developed mining technology. The Association of Greek Geologists (AGG) is participating as an EFG Linked Third Party in the project aiming, among others, at the creation of a European database of potentially suitable ore deposits for the utilization of the Robominers technology.</p><p> </p><p>The creation of an ore deposits’ European database is a crucial procedure for the best possible design of exploration and exploitation applying the Robominers innovative approach. The AGG has contributed in the building of a database at a national level (for Greece), of the major and most important mineral deposits, according to the project requirements. A number of ore deposits in which Robominers advanced technology may provide a unique solution to mineral extraction, include porphyry and epithermal deposits and especially vein-like types, but volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS-type) and lense-like or layered orthomagmatic deposits can also be of high importance. From the above mentioned ore deposits the most abundant in Greece are epithermal deposits, deposits in hydrothermal veins, porphyry copper, as well as chromites in ophiolite complexes. Regarding the spatial distribution vein-type or metasomatic deposits are located mostly in Northern Greece (Western Macedonia and Thrace regions) while significant variable-mineralization deposits are related with the Attico-Cycladic belt volcanism (mainly Lavrion, Evia, and islands in the Aegean Sea). Finally, PGE bearing chromite deposits and bauxite deposits, located mainly in Central Greece, may also be significant for the project.</p><p> </p><p>The establishment of a joined European Robominers database is of great significance for the progress of the project since it will provide essential information on key outputs such as the deposit type and commodities, the host rock, and the spatial distribution of the project’s targeted ore deposits and will provide valuable knowledge regarding the future planning of the exploration and exploitation from the developed Robominers innovative technology approach.</p><p>Dr Eleni Koutsopoulou</p><p>Coordinator of the project</p><p>On Behalf of the:</p><p>Association of Greek Geologists</p><p>Didotou 26,10680, Athens, Greece</p><p>VAT ID: EL-999600130</p><p> </p><p> </p>

On DH in Argentina

2020 ◽  
pp. 225-235
Author(s):  
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste ◽  
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Research Council ◽  
The State ◽  
Technical Research ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
American Academia ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Del Rio

In this chapter, Gimena del Río Riande, the Argentine researcher based at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), talks about the state of the digital humanities in Argentina and the potential implications and promise of digital research in Latin American academia. She explains the specific challenges in the region and how technologies are playing a defining role in the reshaping of Latin American humanities at the dawn of the 21st century. As expected, the way in which the humanidades digitales developed in Spanish-speaking countries differs significantly from that of the Anglophone digital humanities. These differences can be found not only in the language that communicates research—all the different variants of Spanish—but also in the topics, methods, and tools, due to the diverse academic, cultural, and economic contexts. To illustrate this, Gimena del Río tells us how she started working in 2013 on the creation of a digital humanities community in Argentina, the Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (AAHD), and the digital humanities projects she is currently coordinating.

scholarly journals An Overview of Public History in Italy: No Longer A Field Without a Name

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Noiret
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Public History ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Italian Association ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
New Millennium

AbstractThis article traces the origins and development of public history in Italy, a field not anymore without this name today. Public history in Italy has its roots in historical institutions born in the nineteenth century and in the post WW2 first Italian Republic. The concept of “public use of history” (1993), the important role played by memory issues in post-war society, local and national identity issues, the birth of public archaeology (2015) before public history, the emergence of history festivals in the new millennium are all important moments shaping the history of the field and described in this essay. The foundation of the “Italian Association of Public History” (AIPH) in 2016/2017, and the promotion of an Italian Public History Manifesto (2018) together with the creation of Public History masters in universities, are all concrete signs of a vital development of the field in the Peninsula.

scholarly journals One Small World: On Writing Independent History

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Sue Castrique
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Public History ◽  
Small World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Urban And Regional Development ◽  
History Of Place ◽  
Community Centre

One Small World: the history of the Addison Road Community Centre was independently written and funded through a series of grants. While conceived as a history of place, it is also a history of the organisation that presently occupies the site, the Addison Road Community Centre (ARCCO). The Centre has had an ambivalent relationship to its past. After 60 years as an army depot, in 1976 it became a community centre. The strict discipline of the army was replaced by a very different ethos and political outlook; in fact, its antithesis. As a consequence, the Centre had an uneasy relationship to the history of the site, particularly its army past, which was underappreciated and little valued. ARCCO has recently re-engaged with its public history, but in the process it veered off into mythology. The paper explores the ANZAAC Centenary celebration at Addison Road of horses in war in 2015, and the part funding played in creating myth rather than history. It then considers the role of the Department of Urban and Regional Development in the creation of the Centre in 1975-76 and ARCCO’s attachment to its story of radical origins. KEYWORDSAddison Road Community Centre; Department of Urban and Regional Development; ANZAC Centenary; army; Marrickville; multiculturalism

scholarly journals An old Soviet response and a revolutionary context: Dealing with the national question in the committees of the USSR Congress of People’s Deputies (1989–1991)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Carolina de Stefano
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
National Question ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Creation

The article deals with the parliamentary representation of ethnic/national interests and demands in the crisis years between 1989 and 1991, culminating in the collapse of the Soviet Union. It focuses primarily on the proliferation of committees dealing with ethnonational questions after the creation of the USSR Congress of People’s Deputies, a parliamentary body that existed from 1989 until 1991. The article shows that the new parliamentary architecture was not only the inevitable consequence of social and national mobilization but also an expression of the Union center’s response to the ongoing national crisis. Building mostly upon unpublished archival material, the article focuses on debates in 1989–1991 within the Committee of Nationalities Affairs and Interethnic Issues of the USSR Supreme Soviet. In so doing, it identifies some of the dilemmas the committee faced and some of the changes in its functioning brought about glasnost and perestroika. The article makes two key contributions. First, it helps to shed much-needed light on Soviet nationalities policy during perestroika. Second, the analysis of debates internal to parliamentary committees in those critical years contributes to the existing literature on Soviet and Russian parliamentarism and institutional transformation during the transition from the USSR to the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Management, Appraisal and Preservation of Government Records: Some Aspects of the Canadian

Atlanti ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Robert Nahuet
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Canadian Government ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Government Records ◽  
Auditor General

Over the last decades, archivists believed the management of government records, without being perfect, was going smoothly and seamlessly: records from Canadian government institutions were acquired, processed and made accessible to Canadians in an organised, structured, and logical way. However, in his 2014 report, the Auditor General of Canada pointed out not only weaknesses but also failures in LAC activities related directly to its mandate: developing Records Disposition Authorities (RDA), processing archival material from departments and agencies, and making this heritage material available to Canadians or people interested in Canada. LAC was somehow shocked by this earthquake and had to cope with these problems and find solutions, within three years. My presentation has three parts: 1- the LAC Act, macro-appraisal and RDA; 2- the Auditor General’s report; 3- the creation of the LAC Task Force to deal with these archival issues. My conclusion will explore some elements about the management of digital archives for Canadian government institutions.

scholarly journals Collezioni cartografiche e digital humanities per una nuova fruizione del patrimonio: il caso della Biblioteca Estense Universitaria di Modena

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
Sara Belotti
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Reggio Emilia ◽  
Music Collection ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
Digital Library Project

Digital humanities is an emerging discipline that has become increasingly popular in recent years, thanks to the implementation of numerous projects that aim at a dynamic dialogue between digital technologies and humanistic research. This is the scope of the project launched by the Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (BEU) di Modena in 2017, which, in collaboration with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, included the study, cataloguing and digitization of the cartographic collection, along with the music collection and the Muratorian collection. This project led to the creation of a digital library, inaugurated in June 2020, which not only allowed the enhancement of the cartographic collection, still little known, and to make it available, albeit only virtually, to scholars, but also led to the adoption of the IIIF protocol that allows to compare, edit, annotate and share the documents of the Este collection and collections that participate in the same circuit, providing new useful tools for research. In this context, the contribution, starting from the presentation of the Estense Digital Library project, presents the cartographic collection of the BEU and offers a reflection on the potential that the new digital media provide for the study of cartography and, more broadly, of heritage in the digital age.

scholarly journals Hunting down Emanuel Ringelblum. The Participation of the Polish Kriminalpolizei in the ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Question

2017 ◽  
pp. 11-41
Author(s):  
Jan Grabowski
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
Secret Police ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Warsaw Ghetto ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Police Forces

During the occupation, the Germans re-organised the Polish police forces. The regular police, henceforth known as ‘blue police’, resumed its duties under the supervision of the German Order Police [Orpo – Ordnungspolizei], while the secret police, now called Polish Criminal Police, was incorporated into the German Kriminalpolizei, or Kripo. Although there have been no historical studies of the Polish Kripo, it seems that this organisation played an essential role in tracking down and killing the Jews in hiding. This article, which largely draws on previously unknown archival material, focuses on the Warsaw section of the Polish Criminal Police. More specifically, it discusses the creation and the role of several specialised units, created for the sole reason of hunting down the Jews in hiding, in Warsaw, during the 1943–1944 period. The units have been responsible, among others, for the detection and arrest of Emanuel Ringelblum, the founder of “Oneg Shabbat”, the underground archive of the Warsaw ghetto.

Tropiąc Emanuela Ringelbluma. Udział polskiej Kriminalpolizei w „ostatecznym rozwiązaniu kwestii żydowskiej”

2014 ◽  
pp. 27-56
Author(s):  
Jan Grabowski
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Secret Police ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Warsaw Ghetto ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Dark Blue ◽  
Police Forces

During the occupation, Germans re-organized the Polish police forces. The regular police, henceforth known as “Dark-blue police”, resumed its duties under the supervision of the German Order Police [Orpo – Ordnungspolizei], while the secret police, now called Polish Criminal Police, was incorporated into the German Kriminalpolizei, or Kripo. Although there have been no historical studies of the Polish Kripo, it seems that this organization played an essential role in tracking down and killing the Jews in hiding. This article, which largely draws on previously unknown archival material, focuses on the Warsaw section of the Polish Criminal Police. More specifically, it discusses the creation and the role of several specialized units, created for the sole reason of hunting down the Jews in hiding, in Warsaw, during the 1943–1944 period. The units have been responsible, among others, for the detection and arrest of Emanuel Ringelbum, the founder of “Oneg Shabbat”, the underground archive of the Warsaw ghetto.

Rewriting The History of 1948: The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Question Revisited

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemarie M. Esber
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Major Obstacle ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Arab Population ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
History Of ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Research

The existence of Palestinian refugees remains an unresolved grievance at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and a major obstacle to peace. This paper places the Palestinian exodus in historiographical context, elucidates the arguments that have characterised the debate over the Palestinian refugees since their creation, and presents new research. The incorporation of the Palestinian viewpoint and British contemporary perspectives from oral histories and the documentary record demonstrate that the creation of the Palestinian refugees during the civil war period lay in the convergence of chaotic civil conflict, the British inaction to suppress the escalating violence, and Zionist offensive operations aimed at forcing out the Arab population.

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