#Paper Session 2A: Cultural Heritage: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Considerations (Hogan) Chair: Rob Kitchin, Professor and ERC Advanced Investigator, NIRSA, Maynooth University @RobKitchin
Language Data, Ethics and the Law Caspar Jordan, Swedish National Data Service
Issues around anonymisation of personal data of participants in social research projects.
There's a chance only lawyers fully understand all the implications of ethics and the law with regards to social science data. #dpassh
####Questions, Martha Bustilo: can an informant sign away rights to be anonymous?
A. That might be acceptable, but the Swedish XY might have to be ablet to contact them. You can't sign away the right for material to be publically accessible.
Managing the digitization and online publication of sensitive heritage material Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Dublin City University @thallisabhus Conchúr Mag Eacháin, Dublin City University @mageachain Anna Bale, University College Dublin
Folklore digitisation project.
c400k pages of folklore collected by schoolchildren in the 1930s. Material is being published online on a county by county basis. Searchable by names of collectors, informants, teachers etc.
Crowdsourced transcription project underway.
Schools Collection draws most of the visitors to the Nat Folklore Colection. Most visitors are there for genealogical reasons.
Ethical Questions: harder to withhold sensitive material, than it would be with hardcopy material. Some material portrays individuals in a negative light and could cause relatives distress. The chance of legal action is low but don't want to cause distress.
Guidelines formulated to identify what was sensitive. 700 entries flagged to date. Half have subsequently been published.
Why would records be withheld?
- people named and identified and linked to crime or landgrabbing. [very Irish]
- if people are referred to in an insulting way
- if the informant requested material be kept private
Publsihed unrestricted if
- incident is pre 1900
- if the incident is a clear folklore motif
- if language would eb considered racist by today's standards but reflect the values of the time.
"When she was vexed she would take off her clothes" A woman identifable from the 1911 census. Restricted item.
Redaction: for redacted material the entire document is blacked out. The only metadata made availabel is title, volume name. Proxy server used to block access to techies who would get it via UCD url.
Codes of Ethics for Digital Repositories Joanne Carroll, Trinity College Dublin
A digital archive of cultural heritage objects: standardized metadata and annotation categories Elisabeth Steiner, University of Graz Carina Kargl, University of Graz
Digitizing Heritage: Building an Archive for Future Generations Sharon Ringel, University of Haifa Rivka Ribak, University of Haifa Paper Session 2B (Short Papers): Digital Archiving Systems and Web Archiving (Canal) Chair: Bahareh Heravi, Group Leader and Research Fellow, Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway @Bahareh360
Meeting the Challenges of Preserving the UK Web Helen Hockx-Yu, British Library @hhockx
The Great Derive: Rethinking Access and Extent for Web Archives Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive @jefferson_bail
Living Movements, Living Archives: Selecting and archiving web content during times of social unrest Sylvie Rollason-Cass, Internet Archive @Sylvie_RC Scott Reed, Internet Archive @vector_ctrl
The E-ARK project: harmonizing social and cultural records across Europe Janet Delve, University of Portsmouth @EARKproject David Anderson, University of Portsmouth Andrew Wilson, University of Portsmouth
Future proof: The Transition to Digital at IFI Archive Anja Mahler, Irish Film Archive Raelene Casey, Irish Film Archive Simon Factor, Moving Media @movingmedia