Smyth, H., & Ramirez Echavarria, D. (2021). Twitter and feminist commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising. Journal of Digital History, jdh001. https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/SLCj9T3MsrEk

Present: DW, SZL, AMS, CT, AR, AC, GG, JA, KS

• Discussion of the Journal of Digital History aims and ambitions at solving the problems faced by those trying to publish digital historical scholarship; primarily, how do you display code and data without spoiling narrative flow, while also including a respectful level of detail on both the historiographical and technical level.
• Some misgivings about the dual layer reading experience; remains fairly disruptive, although appreciate the attempt to include both elemtns fully, tomake work reproducible (in theory) and explicable (unlike digital work published e.g., in Rachel Eu's piece).
• Is the display of code a gimmick?
• Are all of the things in the hermeneutic layer too diverse to work as a single category?
• Which elements of this platform could we borrow/adapt and use on the SMG journal?
• Could we use the Jupyter ecosystem to publish in this way? This journal makes use of REACT (Thanks Asa)
• KS interested in hearing our views on this platform: DW to put her in touch with the managing editor, Frédéric Clavert.
• Researching Twitter needs careful contextualisation with regard to historical claims: more about public history and commemorative practice than (in this case) Irish history.