The Minimal Curation Project, funded by Research Ireland, is putting together a collection on Minimal Computing for Social and Cultural Heritage edited by Olga C. Patroni, James O’Sullivan, Susan Rea, Shawn Day, Luigina Ciolfi, and Mary Galvin.
The collection is calling for full chapters or short contributions on approaches to minimal computing through a critical or empirical lens. From the call:
This edited collection will explore how principles of minimal computing, understood as low-resource, sustainable, and ethically grounded digital practice, can be applied to the preservation and curation of social and cultural heritage.
At a time when digital heritage infrastructures are increasingly shaped by platform-dependent systems, this volume asks a fundamental question: what forms of digital practice are genuinely sustainable, not only technically and economically, but socially and culturally, for the communities who produce and maintain heritage?
The book brings together scholars and practitioners to examine how lightweight technologies, decentralised infrastructures, and community-led approaches can address structural inequalities in digital heritage.
The call explicitly asks for interdisciplinary approaches and is open to chapters written by “among others, scholars and practitioners across digital humanities, cultural and heritage studies, human–computer interaction, digital design, community-engaged and participatory research, media and communication studies, information studies, and archival studies.”
Submissions should be emailed Dr Olga Concetta Patroni and Dr James O’Sullivan by April 30, 2026 and should contain a brief, 200 word maximum, abstract and a biographical note. Editors’ emails can be found on the call’s main page.
Final full chapters are expected to be 6,000-10,000 words and short contributions should be 3,000 words and may take the form of “reflective case studies, practice reports, interviews, position pieces, methodological notes, or community perspectives.”
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