ABSTRACT

Digital technologies are revolutionizing the way we study and understand history. Historical sources and material evidence are increasingly being transformed into digital objects and integrated into larger databases, offering new ways of researching history in the digital age. This article reviews dominant practices that deal with new forms of historiography. It does so by offering digital curatorial practices and outlines a new methodological concept of digital visual history. For that purpose, the article explores a particularly challenging test case of historical visual sources, which not only had a lasting effect on the collective historical imagination but has also increasingly turned digital: the difficult visual heritage of the Holocaust. Highlighting significant aspects of the afterlife of these visual sources, the article uses as an example the digital infrastructure developed in the framework of the EU Horizon 2020 project ‘Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age’ (VHH) (2019–2023) that aims at (re)contextualizing Allied atrocity records as relational and migrating images. In doing so, the article demonstrates how, through the combination of historiographic practices of curation and digital technologies, the visual heritage of past events is revealed as dynamic and interconnected.

摘要

数字技术正在彻底改变我们研究和理解历史的方式。历史资料和物证越来越多地转化为数字对象并集成到更大的数据库中，为数字时代的历史研究提供了新的方法。本文回顾了处理新形式史学的主流实践。它通过提供数字策展实践来实现这一目标，并概述了数字视觉历史的新方法论概念。为此，本文探讨了历史视觉来源的一个特别具有挑战性的测试案例，它不仅对集体历史想象力产生了持久影响，而且也日益数字化：大屠杀的艰难视觉遗产。本文以欧盟地平线 2020 项目“大屠杀的视觉历史：数字时代重新思考策展”(VHH) (2019- 2023）旨在将盟军暴行记录（重新）背景化为关系和迁移图像。在此过程中，本文展示了如何通过结合策展和数字技术的史学实践，