Wystąpienie z 24 IX 2010 w czasie Sommerakademie: Neue Medien in den Geschichts- und Osteuropawissenschaften organizowanej przez Hereder-Institut w Marburgu [20-26 IX 2010]

2. MODERN LOCAL HISTORY
Methodological misunderstanding
We all [think we] now what is local history...
local history is about reconstructing past communities, in ways which make
sense, rather than worrying about issues linked to postmodernism and other
theoretical constructs wchich seem to approach the wider issues in a negative
rather than constructive manner. Local history was traditionally the study of a
particular local community, or group of communities (in the sense of county)
without specific reference to the broader range of events, forces and
processes impinging on those communities.
J. Becket , Writing Local History
Regional and local history
● Methodological misunderstanding (in Poland)
What is heritage?
● Redefining the meaning of (local) heritage
Professionals and ameteurs (citizen historians):
● Polish vs. British experience

3. MODERN LOCAL HISTORY
„Sensual” local history. Why not!
Reaching for new sources / new fields
Soundscape
Scent-scape
What can we get from „feeling” the past and
which past can be felt
Traverse for new ideas
What can BE „local history”

4. RESCUE HISTORY
New way of looking at local history

5. RESCUE HISTORY
New way of looking at local history
Origins of Rescue History idea
Rescue:
● Why?
● What?
● From what?
● From whom?

6. RESCUE HISTORY
New way of looking at local history
Beta definition:
The aim of rescue history should be rescuing the
relatively closed fragments of past, relatively from the risk
of loss to the widely understand heritage. Rescue history
should use "active" methods of protecting the past in
which restored, described, archived, and interpreted past
should be returned to its rightful owners with use of
modern methods and research tools. In the circle of its
interests should pasts particularly at risk from deliberate
distortion, not covered by a network of academic research
or located on the outskirts of the historical perception.

7. DIGITAL RESCUE HISTORY
Reasons for making rescue history digital
Idea of digital history
Principles for online local history projects:
● Usability
● Visibility
● Accessibility
● Effectiveness
● Impression

8. DIGITAL RESCUE HISTORY
Benefits of doing Rescu History digital
● Participation
● Democratization
● Easy-to-made
● Easy-to-share
● Impact
● Efficiency
● Low-costs

9. ON-LINE LOCAL HISTORY PROJECTS
Different needs
Different approaches
Different project:
● Witnica - www.witnica.ehost.pl
● Krzyż-Kreuz - www.kreuz-krzyz.pl
● Virtual Village - http://www.ist-nm2.org/media_productions.html
● Podgórze.pl - www.podgorze.pl
● Local heritage digitalization panel on Medialab Chrzelice
http://www.openstreetmap.pl/balrog/chrzelice/medialab/

10. ON-LINE LOCAL [Rescue] HISTORY PROJECTS
Is there a „road map” for making on-line LH projects?
New media / New “Old” media / Traditional
approaches: approaches:
Mashup Archive query
GPS tools Oral history
Social network / Digital diaspora Interview
Digital storytelling Printed publication
Non-linear narration Writing „History”
Microhistory (nano-history) Written sources
3D reconstructions Library and Museum materials
Virtual reality … etc.
Argumented reality
Rephotography [Revideo]
Crowdsourcing
Grassroot digitalization
… etc.

11. DIGITAL RESCUE HISTORY
Perspectives for digital rescue history