A number of remarks on the intimacy of digital collections during the works on the project entitled Postmodern Sienkiewicz – digital laboratory

Abstract

The article presents the fields in which the scientific contents published on the Internet may touch the topics that are considered intimate. The basis for the analysis is the digital collection entitled Postmodern Sienkiewicz on the NPLP.PL platform, with reference to the process of its creation by the team of Nowa Panorama Literatury Polskiej, while realizing the grant entitled Postmodern Sienkiewicz – digital laboratory. The analyses indicate that the contents which may be considered intimate of indecent are sometimes exhibited in the process of 1) structuring and categorizing digital contents, it they are within texts which constitute an important element of analyses presented in a digital collection, 2) using photographs of items and rooms related to intimate elements of an author’s biography as an illustrative material, 3) using visuals (such as pictures of graphics) which draw attention to such issues.