Dear all, 



I feel I should just clarify the situation as regards the email archive of Carcanet Press, which is referred to in the message below. Clearly data protection is a major issue with this material, but the current closure of the email is in fact largely due to technical issues – the recent acquisition of a digital preservation system and a major ongoing project to migrate existing digital collections into this system. We are not yet at a stage where we are able to make born-digital material available to researchers via this system.  



Once we are in a position to provide secure access to parts of this archive in the Reading Room, in accordance with copyright law, we certainly intend to do so. We will apply data protection measures in the same way that we currently do with recent and contemporary hard copy correspondence, which is checked by a curator prior to being issued to ensure that no sensitive personal data is released. 



We have also discussed with Carcanet Press the issue of GDPR and they are currently formulating a statement for inclusion in their email signatures alerting correspondents to the fact that their email may be archived. However, we would be very interested in hearing about how other institutions are dealing with GDPR in relation to archival email which is acquired from external organisations. 



Best wishes,

Fran 



Fran Baker l Archivist l The John Rylands Library l The University of Manchester l 150 Deansgate l Manchester l M3 3EH l Tel +44 (0)161 275 7645

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Subject: Workshop: Privacy, Open Data and the Humanities (London, 21 June 2018)



Dear all,



Here is the announcement for a workshop I am organising in London. If you would like to present a short paper, or simply to attend, please send me an email: [log in to unmask]



Workshop, DH@Lboro

School of Advanced Study, London, 21 June 2018 Privacy, Open Data and the Humanities



The Cambridge Analytica scandal has led to a privacy backlash and to calls for tighter regulation of Facebook and other Internet Giants.

Social and computer scientists fear that legitimate researchers could be collateral damage. Yet, there has been no discussion on the plight of Humanities researchers confronted to “dark archives.” For example, the archive of the poetry publisher Carcanet in Manchester contains hundreds of thousands of emails, but it is currently closed due to data protection issues. With the forthcoming introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (May 2018), it may be even more complicated to access data in the future.



This workshop will bring together academics, archivists and open data advocates to discuss the issues of privacy and access to data. We will focus primarily (but not exclusively) on cultural data and the case of the Humanities.



Best wishes,

Dr Lise Jaillant | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) School of the Arts, English and Drama | Loughborough University, UK



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