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Our Future Digital History and its Implications

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
by Eliot Rifkin

The ancient Library of Alexandria' was said to have contained all the books of the Ancient World before it was destroyed in 48BC, are we heading towards a new digitised version of the Library of Alexandria'?

It has been said that history is written by the hands of the victor, how is our current history in its digital format being recorded for future generations? How will all the perspectives be recorded objectively?

It is so much easier to change a digital record that a written one - what types of considerations are being considered and by whom?

Dr Natalia Grincheva from the University of Melbourne joined 4ZZZ's Eliot Rifkin to chat about these new digital history collections.

For a deep dive...

Here's Dr Natalia Grincheva's bio, books authored, Pursuit Magazine articles and her website. Her most recent Pursuit Magazine article is "Translating Data into Soft Power" and book is "Geopolitics of Digital Heritage".

The Digital Aggregators that Natalia spoke of are:


  • Europeana - which is a catalogue of Europes digital cultural heritage

  • Singapore Memory Project

  • Trove - Australia's access point for historical records and digital heritage

  • Google Arts and Culture - repository that started with 11 museums with the ambition of aggregating all humankind knowledge in one universal library with heritage, travel locations, architecture, tourism, fashion, science and more

...and lastly, another article of interest is "Partnering through Collections in Digital Humanities: Looking at Researchers Needs"


Eliot Rifkin

Eliot Rifkin is a Journalist and Producer on Thursday Brisbane Line

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