Zitationsvorschlag

van Faassen , Marijke und Hoekstra, Rik: Storytelling, Identity, and Digitising Heritage, in Wergin, Carsten und Affeldt, Stefanie (Hrsg.): Digitising Heritage: Transoceanic Connections between Australia and Europe, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024 (Kulturelles Erbe: Materialität – Text – Edition (KEMTE), Band 4), S. 155–174. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1305.c18425

Identifier (Buch)

ISBN 978-3-96822-223-3 (PDF)
ISBN 978-3-96822-224-0 (Hardcover)

Veröffentlicht

26.09.2024

Autor/innen

Marijke van Faassen , Rik Hoekstra

Storytelling, Identity, and Digitising Heritage

Abstract Heritage is recollections, and recollections are the building blocks for storytelling. A story is told from the perspective of a person, a group of persons or of governments. But all collections, both private and public, have been created through processes of selection, conscious or unconscious, that are often hidden. Even if we connect all available heritage materials, they contain blind spots, and some perspectives will be over-exposed while other remain under-represented. We explore the pitfalls of large-scale digitisation, the perspectives of the institutional and the individual, of governments and marginalised groups.

Keywords Archives, Identity, Memory, Migration, Netherlands