Digital Correspondence CIG Roundtable: Ethics, Access and Sustainability

All are invited to join a roundtable event on three key points related to digital correspondence archives:

• What are the ethical concerns around using individuals' correspondence for research, especially where consent was not freely given?
• Who should, or can, have access to this data? How do we balance openness in research against individuals' privacy?
• How can we ensure the long-term sustainability of these projects and databases, which are often developed with significant investment of resources?

Speakers:

• Professor Tim Grant and Dr Sarah Atkins, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University – https://www.aston.ac.uk/research/forensiclinguistics/databank
• Dr Jack Orchard, Electronic Enlightenment, Bodleian Library, Oxford University – https://www.e-enlightenment.com/index.html
• Jodie Double, Head of Digital Content and Copyright, University of Leeds Libraries - https://library.leeds.ac.uk/

There will be three brief presentations, followed by a roundtable discussion on the questions above. The speakers' research areas span from the Early Modern Period to twenty-first century communication. Their contributions highlight how the considerations around ethics, access and sustainability evolve and shift with the materials' proximity to the present day. This international event is open to all interested scholars.

Join in on Zoom - no sign-up needed - at https://ucdie.zoom.us/j/61280899457?pwd=NzRRSHEzdks0c05qbURuejF3OVBmZz09