Access and Control in Digital Humanities explores a range of important questions about who controls data, who is permitted to reproduce or manipulate data, and what sorts of challenges digital humanists face in making their work accessible and useful.
Contributors to this volume present case studies and theoretical approaches from their experience with applications for digital technology in classrooms, museums, archives, in the field and with the general public. Offering potential answers to the issues of access and control from a variety of perspectives, the volume acknowledges that access is subject to competing interests of a variety of stakeholders. Museums, universities, archives, and some communities all place claims on how data can or cannot be shared through digital initiatives and, given the collaborative nature of most digital humanities projects, those in the field need to be cognizant of the various and often competing interests and rights that shape the nature of access and how it is controlled.
Access and Control in Digital Humanities will be of interest to researchers, academics and graduate students working in a variety of fields, including digital humanities, library and information science, history, museum and heritage studies, conservation, English literature, geography and legal studies.
1. Introduction: access and control in digital humanities
Shane Hawkins
Part I. Access, Control, and DH in Academia
2. From Stone to Screen: the built-in obsolescence of digitization
Kaitlyn Solberg, Lisa Tweten, Chelsea A. M. Gardner
3. Digital humanities and a new research culture: between promoting and practicing open research data
Urszula Pawlicka-Deger
Part II. Networks of Access and Control
4. Computational ontologies for accessing, controlling, and disseminating knowledge in the cultural heritage sector: a case study
John Roberto Rodríguez
5. Digital approaches to the ‘Big Ancient Mediterranean’
Ryan Horne
6. Questioning authority: creation, use, and distribution of linked data in digital humanities
Lindsay Kistler Mattock & Anu Thapa
Part III. Access, Control and Immersive Media
7. Visuality as historical experience: immersive multi-directional narrative in the MIT Visualizing Cultures Project
Ellen Sebring
8. Architectonic connections: virtual reconstruction to disseminate understanding of South and Southeast Asian temples
David Beynon and Sambit Datta
9. Postscript on the Ctrl+Alt society: protocols for locative media
Brian Greenspan
Part IV. Access, Control, and Indigenous Knowledge
10. Cross-cultural collaborations in the digital world: a case study from the Great Lakes Research Alliance’s Knowledge Sharing Database
Heidi Bohaker, Mia McKie, Lisa Truong, Kate Higginson
11. Issues and intersections of Indigenous knowledge protection and copyright for DH
Kim Paula Nayyer
Part V. Access, Control, and the Law
12. The open access spectrum: redefining the access discourse for the electronic editions of literary works
Setsuko Yokoyama
13. Ownership, copyright, and the ethics of the unpublished
Emily C. Friedman
14. Digital humanities research under United States and European copyright laws: evolving frameworks
Erik Ketzan & Paweł Kamocki
15. Trust is good, control is better? The GDPR and control over personal data in digital humanities research
Paweł Kamocki
Biography
Shane Hawkins is the Director of the College of the Humanities and Associate Professor in Greek and Roman Studies at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Ontario
