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Mini Conference: Digital history and the datafication of historical records

Digital history or the use of digital tools, including computational methods, to make and present historical analysis, has been around for at least a decade by now. Computational methods and digital analytical tools can only be used on digital or digitized material. The mini conference will focus on the transformation of archival records, whether originally paper records or born digital records, when they become ‘datafied’ to enable the use of digital tools including computational methods.

AAU Science and Innovation Hub - room C.004 (Auditorium)

Thomas Manns Vej 25, 9220 Aalborg Ø

11.11.2025 Kl. 12:30 - 12.11.2025 Kl. 14:00
Tilmeldingsfrist: 07.11.2025

English
On location

AAU Science and Innovation Hub - room C.004 (Auditorium)

Thomas Manns Vej 25, 9220 Aalborg Ø

11.11.2025 Kl. 12:30 - 12.11.2025 Kl. 14:00
Tilmeldingsfrist: 07.11.2025

English

On location

SSH

Mini Conference: Digital history and the datafication of historical records

AAU Science and Innovation Hub - room C.004 (Auditorium)

Thomas Manns Vej 25, 9220 Aalborg Ø

11.11.2025 Kl. 12:30 - 12.11.2025 Kl. 14:00
Tilmeldingsfrist: 07.11.2025

English
On location

AAU Science and Innovation Hub - room C.004 (Auditorium)

Thomas Manns Vej 25, 9220 Aalborg Ø

11.11.2025 Kl. 12:30 - 12.11.2025 Kl. 14:00
Tilmeldingsfrist: 07.11.2025

English

On location

Day 1 will present current digitization projects and ask: Why digitize and what new research opportunities opens up? What about the long-term preservation and access to digitized archives/collections?

Day 2 will ask what types of transformation of archival data is required using digital analytical tools? What and what not can we use digital methods for? Including ethical questions related to digital transformation and use of archival records.

11th of November

12.30 - 16.30

Programme Day 1

12:30

12.35

Welcome

Professor Johan Heinsen, Ph.D., Aalborg University

12.35

13.35

Keynote: Digital Histories and the Current Practice of Digital Archiving in Canada

Professor, Greg Bak, Ph.D., University of Manitoba

Greg Bak is professor of archival studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. His teaching and research focus on the history and current practice of digital archives, archival decolonization and the histories of digital cultures. Before 2011 he worked as a digital archivist and manager at Canada’s national archives, Library and Archives Canada. Greg is active within the Canadian archival community and was made a Fellow of the Association of Canadian Archivists in 2023. He has written numerous research articles on digital archiving, including “Continuities and innovations: Comparing Danish and Canadian Digital Archiving” in The Nordic Model of Digital Archiving (eds. Greg Bak and Marianne Rostgaard), Routledge, 2024.

13:35

13:50

Break

13:50

14:35

From Image to Machine-Readable Geodata: The Methodological Implications of the Digital Transformation of Historical Map Collections in Historical Research

Senior Researcher, Stig Svenningsen, The Danish Royal Library

14:55

15:40

The DiEm project: Our hybrid approach to digitizing old parish records

Archivist Iben Landbo Gregersen & Archivist and Project Manager Markus Breinholt Schunck Archivist, The Danish National Archives

15:40

16:25

“From handwriting to searchable text - digitizing 18th century petition protocols”

Professor, Nina Javette Koefoed, Ph.D., Aarhus University

16:25

16:30

Thank you and see you tomorrow for Day 2

Professor Johan Heinsen, Ph.D., Aalborg University

12th of November

09.00 - 13.40

Programme Day 2

09.00

09.05

Welcome

Teaching Associate Professor, Marianne Paasch, PhD, Aalborg University

09.05

09.35

Finding the Fugitives: Transforming archives for social history

Professor Johan Heinsen, PhD, Aalborg University

09.35

10.05

Printing Possibility: Gendered and geographical structures of early modern labour markets, 1750-1850

PhD Student Sofus Landor Dam, Aalborg University

10.05

10.20

Break

10.20

10.50

Thousands of runaways: How a peripherical curiosity from the 18th century became relevant in the digital age

PhD Student Anders Dyrborg Birkemose, Aalborg University

10.50

11.20

A presentation about common issues and problems stemming from the creation and management of records and the subsequent submission, quality assurance and use of electronic records at public municipal archives

Digital Archivist Simon Stidsing

11.20

11.50

Linking individuals across sources and systems - In the digital archive and in historical research

PhD Student Kamilla Matthiassen

11.50

12.30

Lunch

12.30

13.00

Reading the Market: Using Newspaper Advertisements to Trace the Copenhagen Salmon Trade, 1750-1900

PhD Student Camilla Bøgeskov, Aalborg University

13.00

13.30

Child-Centered Recordkeeping and Archiving – A Research Proposal

Associate Professor, Marianne Rostgaard, PhD, Aalborg Univeristy

13.30

13.40

Thank you & Closing remarks

Professor Johan Heinsen, PhD, Aalborg University

Contact

Marianne Rostgaard

Associate Professor
Mail: rostgard@dps.aau.dk

Marianne Rostgaard

Johan Heinsen

Professor
Mail: heinsen@dps.aau.dk

Marianne Paasch

Lecturer
Mail: paasch@dps.aau.dk

Marianne Rostgaard

Associate Professor
Mail: rostgard@dps.aau.dk

Marianne Rostgaard

Johan Heinsen

Professor
Mail: heinsen@dps.aau.dk

Marianne Paasch

Lecturer
Mail: paasch@dps.aau.dk

AAU Science and Innovation Hub - room C.004 (Auditorium)

Mini Conference: Digital history and the datafication of historical records

AAU Science and Innovation Hub - room C.004 (Auditorium)

AAU Science and Innovation Hub - room C.004 (Auditorium)

Mini Conference: Digital history and the datafication of historical records

AAU Science and Innovation Hub - room C.004 (Auditorium)

AAU Science and Innovation Hub - room C.004 (Auditorium)

Programme Day 1

Welcome

Keynote: Digital Histories and the Current Practice of Digital Archiving in Canada

Break

From Image to Machine-Readable Geodata: The Methodological Implications of the Digital Transformation of Historical Map Collections in Historical Research

The DiEm project: Our hybrid approach to digitizing old parish records

“From handwriting to searchable text - digitizing 18th century petition protocols”

Thank you and see you tomorrow for Day 2

Programme Day 2

Welcome

Finding the Fugitives: Transforming archives for social history

Printing Possibility: Gendered and geographical structures of early modern labour markets, 1750-1850

Break

Thousands of runaways: How a peripherical curiosity from the 18th century became relevant in the digital age

A presentation about common issues and problems stemming from the creation and management of records and the subsequent submission, quality assurance and use of electronic records at public municipal archives

Linking individuals across sources and systems - In the digital archive and in historical research

Lunch

Reading the Market: Using Newspaper Advertisements to Trace the Copenhagen Salmon Trade, 1750-1900

Child-Centered Recordkeeping and Archiving – A Research Proposal

Thank you & Closing remarks

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