In this second panel for the first part of the symposium, chaired by David Bodenhamer from Indiana University Purdue–University Indianapolis, Aurore François from the Université Catholique de Louvain presents the Just-His.be portal on the socio-political history of justice administration in Belgium from 1795 to 2005, and Patrick Peccatte from Soft Experience describes the treatment of a photographic archive on the Battle of Normandy. Stefan Halikowski-Smith from Swansea University then looks at the issue of European national libraries and the digitization of history. Finally, Eva Deak from Central European University discusses the example of ‘Parallel Archive’ in managing and sharing non-published primary sources.

In this second panel for the second part of the symposium, chaired by Serge Noiret from the European University Institute, Tito Menzani from the University of Bologna discusses how the Internet can be used in the field of historiography, looking particularly at the historiography of the Italian cooperative movement. Alain Michel from the University of Evry-Val d’Essonne and Shadia Kilouchi from the French National Centre for the Digitization of Visual Sources (CN2SV) look at the cooperation between three institutions for a study on the Renault plant in Billancourt. Philippe Rygiel from the University of Paris I analyses the dissemination of historical knowledge in the Web 2.0 era. Finally, David Bodenhamer from Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis addresses the question of the spatialisation of history and its educational applications.

Marianne Backes, Director of the CVCE, and René Leboutte from the University of Luxembourg introduce the two consecutive days of the DHLU 2013 Symposium entitled ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’.