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SUMMARY:Digital Colonial Histories: the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and its
  Polar Collections - John Woitkowitz and Larissa Schmid\, Staatsbibliothek
  zu Berlin
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CONTACT:Emilie Canova
DESCRIPTION:This talk presents the project “IN_CONTEXT: Colonial Histori
 es and Digital Collections” based at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – 
 Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Germany. As universities and cultural heritag
 e institutions reflect on their roles in the histories of European colonia
 lism\, libraries are reassessing past and current practices of collecting 
 and organizing materials and knowledge about the non-European world. Recas
 ting libraries as active agents in the colonial project raises timely ques
 tions about acquisition policies\, classification systems but also about d
 ata sovereignty\, traditional knowledge and who stands to benefit from dig
 ital research infrastructure projects. It also invites queries into the en
 tangled and transimperial nature of science and colonialism. Against this 
 backdrop\, the project IN_CONTEXT aims to enable new research into histori
 es of empire\, slavery and colonialism across the non-European world by di
 gitizing historical collections held by the Staatsbibliothek and by making
  these available via a virtual research platform. The library’s wider ho
 ldings include personal records\, photographs\, maps and historical monogr
 aphs that were acquired over the past 400 years. As part of these collecti
 ons\, a significant body of historical sources related to colonial histori
 es of Alaska\, Northern Canada\, and Greenland will be made accessible for
  quantitative as well as qualitative research. The project also aims to ma
 ke these historical sources available as digital research data to support 
 computational methods of analysis. Curated collections will be made access
 ible via APIs and data sets to allow\, for example\, for text- and data-mi
 ning or data visualization. The talk will also highlight funding opportuni
 ties for conducting on-site research at the Staatsbibliothek and at other 
 partner institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berli
 n.
LOCATION:Hybrid: Seminar room\, SPRI &amp\; Zoom - email organiser for det
 ails
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