Disent mezi politikou paměti a digitální historií: ke vzniku online databáze "Bibliografie ekologické a environmentální problematiky v československém samizdatu"

• Authors: Petra Loučová , Doubravka Olšáková

Title variants

EN

Dissent between the politics of memory and digital history: on the creation of the online database “Bibliography of Ecological and environmental issues in Czechoslovak Samizdat”

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This study focuses on the possibilities and limits of contemporary history research within the transformation of the humanities and social sciences influenced by new information technologies and the digital turn. The authors present the main trends of digitization policy in the Czech Republic in the context of the social debate on coming to terms with the communist past and in the context of professional discussions on the possibilities of the use of bibliographic datasets in the digital humanities. They focus on the role of digitization in the objectification of historical knowledge and its potential use as a tool for new interpretations of historical data, focusing first on the contrast between digitization from below, represented by the social activist digitization of samizdat texts on the initiative of individuals (typically former dis­sidents) or civic associations, and digitization from above, in the form of the state- sponsored and institutionalised digitization of sources of state provenance (mainly materials of the security services of the Czechoslovak communist regime). In the second part of the article, the authors present the newly emerging online database "Bibliography of Ecological and Environmental Issues in Czechoslovak Samizdat" in the context of the current research on Czechoslovak dissent and bibliographic processing of samizdat texts. Using this example, they argue that bibliographies, which are among the traditional tools and aids of historical research, have a great potential for use in digital humanities and thus in digital history, although this potential is still unexploited in contemporary history.

Keywords

CS

Československo; komunismus; digital humanities; digitalizace; archivy; bibliografické databáze; datový výzkum; samizdat; ekologie; environmentalismus

EN

Czechoslovakia; communism; digital humanities; digitization; archives; bibliographic databases; data research; samizdat; ecology; environmentalism

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Soudobé dějiny (Contemporary History)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 391-420
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Petra Loučová

• Soudobé dějiny, redakce, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v.v.i., Vlašská 9, 118 40 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Doubravka Olšáková

• Soudobé dějiny, redakce, Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, v.v.i., Vlašská 9, 118 40 Praha 1, Czech Republic