Born-Digital Archives

Thorsten Ries is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in German Literature of the 18th to 21st century, Digital Humanities and Digital Learning. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Literary Studies, Ghent University, Belgium.Palkó Gábor is a digital humanist and literary historian. His research interests include digital philology and cultural heritage, theories of the archive, media and art theory of Niklas Luhmann and Hungarian literary history of the 20th century. He is the co-director of ELTE.DH, editor-in-chief of International Journal of Digital Humanities (Springer) and DigiPhil.hu.

• Born-digital archives.- From time theft to time stamps: mapping the development of digital forensics from law enforcement to archival authority.- The .txtual condition, .txtual criticism and .txtual scholarly editing in Spanish philology.- Born digital preservation of e-lit: a live internet traversal of Sarah Smith’s King of Space.- Anarchive as technique in the Media Archaeology Lab | building a one Laptop Per Child mesh network.- The invention and dissemination of the spacer gif: implications for the future of access and use of web archives.- Web archives as a data resource for digital scholars.- A landscape of data – working with digital resources within and beyond DARIAH.- Web 25. Histories from the first 25 years of the world wide web.