Working Group 2
Documents as Proof, Documents as Past
Leaders: Dr. Aisling Shalvey and Dr. Nemanja Radonjić
WG2 pays attention to the historical basis for contemporary identity databases and focus explicitly on the documentation itself, from a content, historical and material culture perspectives.
Focus Points
- Academics and historical data – ethics, access and use, GDPR
- Material culture of passports, visas, IDs
- State imposed barriers to accessing ID for asylum and refugee claims
- Quasi or Dual Citizenship status or extra-legal rights
Activities
- Collation of bibliography for publication on HIDDEN website.
- Panel participating in large conference
- Training school with genealogy companies and GDPR experts on issues of ethical use of personal data
- Regular WG meetings to coordinate, share research findings and plan further activities and workshop hosted at same time
- Participation in Action conferences
- STSM
- Preparation of future funding bid
Deliverables
- Contribution to online bibliography
- Contribution to ESSHC or SSN Biennial Conference
- Educational material on GDPR issues available for Training School participants
- Report on Annual workshop on theme or method of the group on website
- Reports on regular WG meetings
- Publication of 2 scientific articles
- Report on Training school on website
- STSM reports
- Contribution to joint funding application