The conference is focused on the use of digital resources: How do digitized materials fit into research and teaching? How can different online activities contribute to the "digital humanities"? What ideas for the teaching of history in schools, museums, and media are developed? What are the strengths, and what are the weaknesses of the existing and newly created offers?

In addition to the critical discussion and reflection at the panels, innovative projects approaching the theme of the "First World War" by using digital forms can present their results to a broader public. Scientists, teachers, representatives of archives, libraries and museums will reflect on questions of mediating history online and present their research projects, course offerings / materials or digital sources in 20-minute talks (English, German).

Conference Venue: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin

Conference organised by: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Department of History at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the German Film Institute – DIF e.V., Facts & Files and the Europeana Foundation.

Participation is free and open to all, places are limited, registration requested

Please register for the conference at Eventbrite: http://unlocking-sources.eventbrite.com/

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Programme:

Thursday, 30. January 2014

Entrance hall:

09:00  Registration

Otto-Braun-Saal:

09:30  Barbara Schneider-Kempf (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)  -  Welcome Address

09:45  Jill Cousins [tbc]  -  Europeana

10:15  Project coordinators [tbc]  -  Europeana Collections 1914-1918 / Europeana 1914-1918 / European Film Gateway – EFG1914

Foyer:

10:45  Coffee break

Otto-Braun-Saal:

Panel I:  Memory Cultures and the First World War

Chair:  Markus Pöhlmann (German/English)

11:15  Steven Stegers  -  The re-use of WWI Digital Resources in History Education 

11:45  Kate Lindsay  -  Embedding Community Collections within the Community 

12:15  Susanne Popp/Miriam Hannig  -  Der "Ausbruch" des Ersten Weltkriegs in internationalen Geschichtsmagazinen: Ausgangspunkt für digitale Lernmaterialien mit interkulturellem und medienkritischem Schwerpunkt 

12:45  Martin Bayer  -  It's not just a Game! The First World War and Computer Games 

Foyer:

13:15  Lunch break

Otto-Braun-Saal:

Panel II:  Digital sources in historical research

Chair:  Thomas Meyer/Frank Reichherzer (German/English)

14:15  Students' lecture (Humboldt University)  -  Europeana in action

14:45  Jörg Lehmann  -  Digital sources in historical research – The users' perspective 

15:15  Gregor Horstkemper  -  Von Daten und Diensten: Angebotsformen bibliothekarischer Informationen und Services zum Ersten Weltkrieg 

Foyer:

15:45  Coffee break

Otto-Braun-Saal:

16:15  Hans Bauer  -  Türen im Kaninchenbau – Wohin führt welches Portal? Internetthemenportale zum Ersten Weltkrieg unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Angebote zu Ost- und Südosteuropa 

16:45  Dominik Bohmann  -  Die französische Kriegsgefangenenzeitschrift Le Pour et le Contre (1916/1917) – Von der Beinahe-Zerstörung über die Digitalisierung zu einem neuen Kapitel der Regensburger Stadtgeschichte 

Zeughauskino (Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin):

19:00  Film screening  -  for registered participants only

Friday, 31. January 2014

Otto-Braun-Saal:

09:30  Keynote:  Sönke Neitzel  -  (tba)

10:15  Launch:  "The Learning Microsite"

Foyer:

10:30  Coffee break

Otto Braun-Saal: 

Panel III:  Digital sources – Special collections

Chair: N.N. (German/English) 

11:00  Linda Levi  -  Records of the New York Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 1914 – 1918

11:30  Ognjen Kovačević  -  Digital sources of the National Library of Serbia in teaching

12:00  Emanuele Martinez  -  The experience of the Great War between the digital sources and family memories

12:30  Laurence Boudart  -  Zeugnisse, Erinnerung und Kriegsliteratur im französischsprachigen Belgien

Simón-Bolívar-Saal:

Panel IV: Fostering the use of digital sources – didactic and technical approaches

Chair: Thomas Sandkühler (English)

11:00  Jamie Andrews/Abi Barber  -  Europeana Collections 1914-1918 – The Learning Microsite

11:30  Daniel Bernsen  -  Digital sources in teaching of history and didactics

11:50  Chryssoula Karamatsiou  -  The Allies of Greece during the First World War and the case of "L'Armée d' Orient" : creating History from digitised sources

12:10  Manlio Piva  -  Geolocating the First World War: itineraries and trenches on the frontline along the Piave River and Mt. Grappa

12:30  Daniel Groth  -  Searching for Traces of 1914 in the Museum 

Foyer:

13:00  Lunch break

Otto-Braun-Saal: 

14:00  Zsuzsanna Brunner  -  An meine Völker – Die Erster-Weltkrieg-Bestände der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek auf Europeana 

14:30  Yohann Le Tallec  -  The path to the war: French Press, Public opinion and the murder of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo (June-July 1914) 

15:00  Hans-Jörg Lieder: Europeana Newspapers Project: Value, Access & Sustainability

Simón-Bolívar-Saal:

14:00  Pierluigi Sanzovo -  LINKED_IN – A digital network which links the stories of 30,000 young Europeans 

14:20  Emanuela Zilio  -  Immersive Storytelling

14:35  Adrian Stevenson  -  Wrapping and Unwrapping History – What's gained and what's lost

14:55  Open round

Foyer:

15:30  Coffee break

Otto-Braun-Saal:

16:00  Final discussion

16:00  End of Conference

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Contact:

Thorsten Siegmann

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz

E-Mail: conference@ec1418.eu

Phone +49 (0)30 266 431451