Organisation: Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
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A museum at your fingertips? Some thoughts on 3D tours of museums
Learn moreMore and more cultural institutions create virtual tours that allow visitors to explore the collections at home instead of actually visiting the institutions. In this blog post, I would like to provide some reflections on virtual tours, their usefulness and their limits.
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Digitising the analogue
Learn moreSome time ago it suddenly hit us that it has been a while since we read an academic book or article in a physical format. This for the simple reason that we can retrace digital information much quicker — i.e. annotating a PDF, extracting highlighted text automatically with ZotFile or quickly looking up a specific…
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The Historical Art of Projection
Learn moreIn the Hands-On History seminar on the 24th of May by Dr. Ludwig M. Vogl-Bienek and Karin Bienek from the University of Trier we were introduced to the history of the magic lantern. After a brief overview during the lecture, we got to experience a live performance of the magic lantern in our Digital History…
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Senta que lá vem a história: #memorecord for a historiography closer to life
Learn moreCan digital public history help us to reach a historiography that is closer to life?
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Steel and iron corpornations: from Luxembourg to Brazil and back in a century
Learn moreA sneak peek at my upcoming PhD thesis.
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Industrial heritage
Learn moreThis edition of Forum Z combined a public collection of photos, pictures and objects on industrial heritage with presentations by Luxembourg and international experts.
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Automata and other interlocutors
Learn moreThe notion of the automaton extends at least as far back as antiquity, but successful implementation of simulated intelligence, and even life itself, continues to elude us. Although there is a tremendous disparity between how we imagine robots to behave and how they actually perform, since the eighteenth century they have become unwitting participants in…
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The scientific user experience design method
Learn moreWhen academics or developers create a website or an application, they usually start from the back end and only then focus on the design or front end. In this blogpost I would like to argue that the design process and user analysis specifically should come first. The methods outlined below were discussed during the workshop…
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Third edition of the winter school in digital history
Learn moreFrom 19 to 23 February 2018, the C²DH welcomed students in the first year of their master’s degree in history for the third edition of the winter school in digital history. This year, the winter school focused on the creation of a digital archival collection from scratch.
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Google Maps as a tool for researchers? The example of the debates on the national museum in Luxembourg
Learn moreSome time ago, I was wondering whether I could use Google Maps as a tool for my research on the history of the National History and Art Museum in Luxembourg, to adopt a distant reading approach, with the aim to gain new insights. I did it and, in the following blog post, I look back…