On November 22nd, the JRAAS, representing CETAPS and the Digital Lab, will present a Flash Talk entitled CETAPS Repository: A Critical Digital Humanities Approach to Data. Led by our values of openness, diversity, collaboration, experimentation, and sustainability, the repository offers a platform where each CETAPS research area becomes a distinct community.
We will showcase important databases as the Lyman Tower Sargent Bibliography, which features over 19,000 entries and is a leading resource on critical utopian studies, as well as Anglophone Travellers in Portugal, Alimentopia, and O Vegetariano. More than being an archive, we want to demonstrate our goal of integrating the repository with other websites and platforms. Moreover, we want to foster the critical thinking that a repository can serve as a participatory science platform, inviting users to contribute to each collection and be recognized as contributing editors.
In this flash talk, we aim to emphasize how we use the Repository to deposit both data and metadata but also use it from a critical digital humanities perspective. We not only preserve data ensuring that our research remains accessible in the long term but use our material to raise new avenues of investigation and research questions.