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Digitizing Guardianship Registers in Senegal (1895-1910): Naming as Evidence and Ethical Concern
  • Kelly M. Duke Bryant
  • ethics
  • archives
  • databases
  • history
  • children
  • slavery
  • liberation
  • post-emancipation
  • liberated minors
  • naming
  • aliases

This article describes the process of building a database of names and information about formerly enslaved children in early colonial Senegal, and it uses the database to ask both historical and ethical questions about naming practices and aliases, experiences of unfreedom, and self-fashioning among these children.

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Naming Names of Enslaved People in the Senegal Liberations Project
  • Richard Roberts
  • Rebecca Wall
  • ethics
  • dh
  • social justice
  • race
  • slavery
  • liberation

Given the prevailing stigma and potential violence against people of slave descent in West Africa, what are scholars' ethical and political responsibilities in using the names of enslaved people who actively sought their liberation at the hands of French colonial officials during the second half of the nineteenth century in public-facing digital humanities projects?

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Naming Slavery in a Digital Public History Project in Mali in the Context of Increased Violence Against Those Who Refuse to Be Called Slaves
  • Marie Rodet
  • Mamadou Séne Cissé
  • ethics
  • history
  • race
  • moving images
  • descent-based slavery
  • digital public history
  • Mali
  • ethics of care
  • web documentary
  • participatory visual research
  • digital gap
  • co-production
  • shared authority
  • equitable partnership
  • transmedia
  • remediation

How do you create a digital public history project on slavery with concerned communities in Mali who are increasingly at risk of violence because of the very topic of slavery?

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The Pedagogical Innovations and Ethical Challenges of Integrating an Online Version of the Registers of the Liberation of Senegal (1857-1903) into the Teaching of History in the Senegalese Middle Cycle Public Schooling
  • Mamadou Yéro Baldé
  • Djibrirou Daouda Ba
  • Ismaïla Mbodji
  • ethics
  • pedagogy
  • history
  • global digital literacy
  • slavery

Teaching the slave trade and slavery through the Senegalese liberation register is not only to put the digital humanities at the center of pedagogical transmission, but it is also to inscribe Senegalese learners in the time-world of science.

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Community-Driven Linked Data Approaches in Builders and Defenders: Nashville's Historical Black Civil War Database
  • Angela Sutton
  • Jessica Power
  • archives
  • collaboration
  • data analytics
  • data curation
  • databases
  • digitization
  • ethics
  • semantic web
  • interdisciplinarity
  • race
  • social justice
  • network
  • public history
  • social justice
  • race studies

This article explores the use of community engagement and the principles behind linked data to create a spatial history database that both serves a local Black community in the US South and makes accessible the sources that complicate our understanding of the Civil War.

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From Archive to Database: Using Crowdsourcing, TEI, and Collaborative Labor to Construct the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project
  • Hilary Havens
  • Eliza Alexander Wilcox
  • Meredith L. Hale
  • Jamie Kramer
  • collaboration
  • transcription
  • metadata
  • markup
  • archives
  • manuscripts
  • semantic web
  • ethics
  • editing
  • crowdsourcing
  • Zooniverse
  • TEI
  • linked open data
  • Maria Edgeworth
  • name authorities
  • digital archives
  • Romantic period
  • long eighteenth century
  • correspondence
  • controlled vocabularies

Our article describes how we are building the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project, an open-access archive containing Maria Edgeworth's correspondence, tracing our steps including image retrieval and processing, metadata generation, transcription, linked open data, and TEI encoding.

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Black Digital Humanities for the Rising Generation
  • Alanna Prince
  • Cara Marta Messina
  • dh
  • race
  • cultural criticism
  • ethics
  • publishing
  • Black digital humanities
  • Antiracist editorial practices
  • Black studies

The focus of Black DH and this special issue is not to define Black DH, but rather spotlight the limitless, interdisciplinary nature of Black DH and Black scholarship.

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Lessons from the Library: Extreme Minimalist Scaling at Pirate Ebook Platforms
  • Martin Paul Eve
  • archives
  • access
  • minimal computing
  • ethics
  • digital libraries

    This article examines the limits on scalability of the distribution of the Library Genesis through its torrent archive and other distributed networking technologies such as IFS, which despite their promise of peer-to-peer redundancy fall down on an archive of this size.

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    Minimizing Computing Maximizes Labor
    • Quinn Dombrowski
    • globalDH
    • access
    • tools
    • minimal computing
    • ethics
    • collaboration

      This paper focuses on the practical realities of implementing the most common minimal computing methods for web development.

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      Power and Precarity: Lessons from the Makers by Mail Project
      • Christina Boyles
      • Andy Boyles Petersen
      • access
      • ethics
      • social justice
      • minimal computing

        This article has examines notions of precarity within the Makers by Mail project to interrogate the relationship between minimal computing methodologies and academic austerity.

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        Curadoria Digital e Custos – Exploração de abordagens e perceções
        • Luís Corujo
        • Jorge Revez
        • Carlos Guardado da Silva
        • data curation
        • content analysis
        • project management
        • digital libraries
        • ethics
        • standards
        • Curadoria Digital
        • Custo
        • Modelo de Custo
        • Ciclo de vida dos Dados Científicos

        Interconnecting the Digital Curation Centre Life Cycle view of the digital object curation to the OAIS Reference Model approach.

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