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Robert Jansma is a Researcher and doctoral candidate at the University of Siegen, leveraging his Computer Science background to explore digital heritage preservation. His interdisciplinary work connects software engineering and humanities to study digital cultures and their material traces.
Research interests span
- Commenting Systems
- Digital Methods
- Web Histories
- Software Histories
- Archiving Born Digital Material
Recent publications analyze online commentary evolution (1996–2021), metadata dating in digital cities, and comment moderation dynamics on platforms like Disqus. His work integrates Computer Science and Digital Humanities to reconstruct digital cultural histories.
He contributes to the RE:DDS project (subproject B03) for preserving 'De Digitale Stad' (The Digital City), an early Dutch online community. Collaborators include Anne Helmond, Johannes Passmann, and Lisa Gerzen.
