{"title":"The curious case of archiving .eu","authors":"Helen Hockx-Yu, Ditte Laursen, D. Gomes","doi":"10.4324/9781315231662-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Cultural heritage is our legacy from the past, what we want to keep and pass on to future generations. Libraries, archives and museums have been playing a crucial role in preserving national and cultural resources, with their collections serving as collective memories for given societies or mankind. They are therefore often referred to as “cultural institutions” or “memory institutions”. Dempsey described the role of memory institutions in 2000:","PeriodicalId":285640,"journal":{"name":"The Historical Web and Digital Humanities","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Historical Web and Digital Humanities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315231662-5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cultural heritage is our legacy from the past, what we want to keep and pass on to future generations. Libraries, archives and museums have been playing a crucial role in preserving national and cultural resources, with their collections serving as collective memories for given societies or mankind. They are therefore often referred to as “cultural institutions” or “memory institutions”. Dempsey described the role of memory institutions in 2000: