Excellent by @josemurilo
“Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: Unwelcome Guests on Social Media, Homeowners on the Social Web – A reflection on digital sovereignty, cultural memory, and the role of memory institutions at a decisive moment for the internet …”
And the official version is at https://brasiliana.museus.gov.br/cultural-heritage-digital-collections-unwelcome-guests-on-social-media-homeowners-on-the-social-web/
The next symposium of the International Society for the History of the Map will meet in May 2027 at the Catalan Cartographic Institute, Barcelona. Preceded by two-day workshop for early career professionals.
BOTH very much recommended!
More information at https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20153752/cfp-ishmap-2027-barcelona-symposium-and-workshop-mapping-outside
Proposal deadline is 30 September 2026.
Please share #maps #maphistory #cartography
📢 The DH2026 Main Conference Program is now available!
🔗 View the full program: https://dh2026.adho.org/program-agenda/
The annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), DH2026: Engagement, will take place 29-31 July 2026 as a hybrid conference, bringing participants together both on-site and online from Daejeon, South Korea.
🔗Learn more: https://dh2026.adho.org/
See you at #DH2026! #DigitalHumanities #DHConference #ADHO
Maps are infrastructure too.
At a recent Internet Archive Europe workshop, we explored how OpenStreetMap and MapLibre are building open, community-governed alternatives to proprietary mapping platforms.
Who decides what stays visible, preserved, and accessible?
https://www.internetarchive.eu/2026/06/08/maps-are-infrastructure-too/
Not all infrastructure looks like a server room. Some of it looks like a map. On 19 May, Internet Archive Europe hosted a workshop at our Amsterdam space with Bart Louwers, one of the core maintainers of MapLibre, and Tommi Marmo, OpenStreetMap contributor. The conversation moved between the technical and the political in a way
What happens when we mistake the map for the territory?
Inspired on my experience with Historical GIS and historical cartography, I wrote a reflection on maps, territories, archives, data, and artificial intelligence. Archives are not the past. Databases are not the realities they seek to describe.
Die Stadtbücher des Stadtarchivs von #Amberg in der #Oberpfalz lassen sich nun in der Datenbank des Index Librorum Civitatum recherchieren und auch sonst hat das Archiv einen großen Schritt nach vorn gemacht. 📚⤵️
"Bestände des Stadtarchivs Amberg leichter recherchierbar" Via @dehypotheses
Archivbesuche sind oftmals nicht leicht zu planen, da nicht immer ganz klar ist, was Forscherinnen und Forscher vor Ort tatsächlich erwarten wird. Selbst bei großen Einrichtungen wie dem Staatsarchiv Amberg sind längst nicht alle Archivalieneinheiten online verzeichnet und somit recherchierbar. Zu umfangreich sind die Bestände und zu gering die Personalstärke im Archiv selbst. Noch gravierender…
RE: https://openbiblio.social/@hab_wf/116617408083592684
It was an excellent conference all around. I was so absorbed I didn't even notice the HAB postings about it here at Mastodon.
Mia
Matthew Edney
ADHO - Alliance of DH Orgs
Internet Archive Europe
Mateus Andrade
Max Grund