Heritage Matters In Crisis Informatics: How Information And Communication Technology Can Support Legacies Of Crisis Events

Information and communication technologies increasingly enable the capture of experiences that result from disaster and mass emergency events. The social and cultural value of such traces, when collectively generated and shared across people and over time, can enhance or even dramatically change how we remember crises. By drawing from several disciplines concerned with digital heritage, and using investigations from three historically significant disasters, we offer an agenda for how information science and human-centered computing communities might conceptualize digital heritage as an emergent research effort in the crisis domain.