More about the Infrastructure Futures project

About the Infrastructure Futures project, including links to all the scenarios.

EXPERT INTERVIEWS

The following people were interviewed as part of this project. They are named here with their permission. We are very grateful to them for their time and insights. Please note: the scenario concepts took inspiration from broad themes that emerged during these interviews, but the research team has full responsibility for the content of the scenarios themselves.

  • Agiatis Benardou, Director of DARIAH-EU
  • Tao-Tao Chang, Associate Director, Infrastructure & Major Programmes, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK Research and Innovation (AHRC – UKRI)
  • Alex Gil, Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University
  • Leif Isaksen, Professor in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion & Theology. Director of Digital Humanities, University of Exeter
  • George Oates, Executive Director, Flickr Foundation
  • Joseph Padfield, Principal Scientist, The National Gallery, London
  • Ananda Rutherford, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Arts London
  • Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities & Director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London
  • Gerben Zaagsma, Assistant Professor in Contemporary and Digital History, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), University of Luxembourg

 

USEFUL REFERENCES

Here are some references that informed our thinking and work on this project and the scenarios.

Ahnert, R. et al. (2023) Collaborative historical research in the age of big data: lessons from an interdisciplinary project. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Elements in historical theory and practice).

Almas, B. (2017) ‘Perseids: Experimenting with Infrastructure for Creating and Sharing Research Data in the Digital Humanities’, Data Science Journal, 16, pp. 19–19. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2017-019.

Anderson, S. and Blanke, T. (2012) ‘Taking the Long View: From e-Science Humanities to Humanities Digital Ecosystems’, Historical social research (Köln), 37(3 (141)), pp. 147–164.

Blanke, T. (2014) Digital Asset Ecosystems: Rethinking crowds and clouds. 1st edn. San Diego: Elsevier Science (Chandos information professional series).

Borgman, C.L. (2007) Scholarship in the digital age: Information, infrastructure, and the Internet. 1st edn. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/7434.001.0001.

Budka, P. (2015) ‘From marginalization to self-determined participation: Indigenous digital infrastructures and technology appropriation in northwestern Ontario’s remote communities’, Journal des anthropologues. Association française des anthropologues, (142–143), pp. 127–153. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4000/jda.6243.

Capurro, C., Plets, G. and Verheul, J. (2023) ‘Digital heritage infrastructures as cultural policy instruments: Europeana and the enactment of European citizenship’, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 0(0), pp. 1–21. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2023.2193401.

Champion, E. (no date) ‘Researchers as Infrastructure’, in Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2012. Available at: https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2012/researchers-as-infrastructure/ .

Clutterbuck, J. (2022) ‘Data infrastructures and the governance of their accompanying narratives’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 43(1), pp. 120–139. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2021.2003184.

Crane, G. (2023) ‘The Perseus Digital Library and the future of libraries’, International Journal on Digital Libraries, 24(2), pp. 117–128. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-022-00333-2.

Edwards, P.N. et al. (2013) Knowledge infrastructures: Intellectual frameworks and research challenges. 

Gran, A.-B., Røssaak, E. and Kristensen, L.-B.K. (2019) ‘Digital Infrastructure for Diversity—On Digital Bookshelf and Google Books’, The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, 49(3), pp. 171–187. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10632921.2019.1581114.

Hughes, L. et al. (eds) (2017) Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities. London: Routledge. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315575278.
 
Hughes, L.M. (2014) ‘Digital Collections as Research Infrastructure’, EDUCAUSE Review. Available at: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2014/6/digital-collections-as-research-infrastructure .

Koch, G. (2017) ‘Ethnography of digital infrastructures’, in Digitisation. Routledge.

Lenstra, N. (2017) ‘Social inequalities in the shaping of cultural heritage infrastructure’, in A. Copeland and H. Roued-Cunliffe (eds) Participatory Heritage. Facet, pp. 97–104. Available at: https://doi.org/10.29085/9781783301256.011.

Marttila, S. and Botero, A. (2021) ‘Infrastructuring for Collective Heritage Knowledge Production’, in M. Rauterberg (ed.) Culture and Computing. Design Thinking and Cultural Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), pp. 95–112. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77431-8_6.

Mauro-Flude, N. (2019) ‘Performing the Internet: Post-Internet Folklore’, in S.R. Wong, H. Li, and M. Chou (eds) Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific: IGI Global (Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology). Available at: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7195-7.

Plantin, J.-C. et al. (2018) ‘Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook’, New Media & Society, 20(1), pp. 293–310. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816661553.

Plets, G. et al. (2023) ‘De-neutralising digital heritage infrastructures? Critical considerations on digital engagements with the past in the context of Europe’, in R. Harrison, N. Dias, and K. Kristiansen (eds) Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe. UCL Press, pp. 243–261.

Pyo, J.Y. and Gu, J. (2023) ‘Platforms as Cultural Infrastructures: Identity-Making Practices of WeChat and KakaoTalk in the Diaspora’, International Journal of Communication, 17(0), p. 22.

Richardson, J. (2022) Building the digital infrastructure behind the Natural History Museum collection, MuseumNext. Available at: https://www.museumnext.com/article/digital-infrastructure-behind-museum-collection/ .

Sendra, A., Late, E. and Kumpulainen, S. (2023) ‘Putting the User in the Loop: Developing a Research Infrastructure for Social Sciences and Humanities Research’, Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60(1), pp. 1119–1121. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.964.

Soergel, D. (2002) ‘A Framework for Digital Library Research: Broadening the Vision’, D-Lib Magazine, 8. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1045/december2002-soergel.
 
Woodley, S. and Towell, P. (2022) Towards a National Collection: User Research. Towards a National Collection/AHRC. Available at: https://zenodo.org/records/6684165 .

LINKS

Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage (project page)