Cultural Heritage in the Age of Big Data

Topics

What are the ethical dimensions of conducting digital scholarship on cultural heritage in the era of big data?

Limits

Are there limits beyond the right to privacy and copyright law to what we should make digitally available?

Sharing

How does sharing materials online affect, benefit, or potentially harm cultural communities?

Ethics

What are the ethical implications of digitally encoding and providing access to cultural materials online?

Projects

Cultural Heritage projects we will be discussing during the conference

Hannah Arendt Digital Edition

Project Representative:
Andrea Kikkert Weatherman

Syriaca.org: Syriac Reference Portal

Project Representative:
Dan Schwartz

Urfehdebücher der Stadt Basel

Project Representative:
Georg Vogeler

The Poetess Archive

Project Representative:
Laura Mandell

About

The Origins of the Cultural Heritage at Scale Symposium

Vanderbilt Libraries

The Vanderbilt University Libraries are an integral part of the intellectual and cultural life of the university and community. Our libraries are engaged in major initiatives within Vanderbilt, as well as nationally and internationally.
Council on Library and Information Resources

CLIR is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning.
2012

Coherence at Scale

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Vanderbilt University formed the Committee on Coherence at Scale for Higher Education in 2012 to examine emerging national-scale digital projects. The Committee on Coherence at Scale fosters strategic thinking about how to rigorously manage the transition from analog to digital in higher education.
June 2-3, 2016

Cultural Heritage at Scale Symposium

A symposium co-sponsored by CLIR and Vanderbilt University to explore preserving digital cultural heritage at scale.
June 2, 2017

Crowd-sourcing with a Human Face

A symposium sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries to explore the ethical dimensions of crowd-sourcing.
June 1, 2018

Cultural Heritage in the Age of Big Data

A symposium sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries to explore the ethical dimensions of digital scholarship.
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Schedule

May 2-3, 2019

Encoding Cultural Heritage at Scale

A symposium sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, the Center for Digital Humanities, and the Cultural Heritage Research Cluster to explore the digital encoding of cultural heritage literature.