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Born-digital culture refers to materials, environments and practices that originate in a digital form. In the 21st century these have rapidly expanded, with many of our contemporary cultural practices increasingly mediated in some way by digital media and technologies. In this course, designed by the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, you will explore key concepts associated with digital culture and archives, ethical issues, and how to collect and analyse born-digital materials.

In this podcast, produced by virtualculture.ch, sociologist Jane Haller, Digitales Schaudepot president, is conversing with Sorin Marti, a data steward in the Research Infrastructure Support Entity (RISE) at the University of Basel to discuss aspects of data management for public consumption.

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of Europeana as a digital platform through a walkthrough of the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) it offers. It provides the knowledge and skills to understand the purpose they serve and the functionality they have, to exploit them by formulating efficient queries for cultural heritage information retrieval. Building on use cases, it delves into the APIs required to achieve research goals, exploring their features and providing familiarisation with supported data formats.