A slightly different take on representation is becoming visible in some of the work in Digital Environmental Humanities. Digital methods are used to help conserve parts of the natural environment which are in the process of being lost or digital approaches are used to visualize aspects of climate change to help communicate them effectively to the public. Here, digitization is less a matter of historical research, or social science, but is a response to urgent societal challenges, which in the case of climate change are part of a polycrisis. As indicated above, another polycrisis of the present time is the crisis of democracy. Challenges around representation in data are directly relevant to tackling this crisis. From the point of individual projects, representation – and representativeness – is what needs to be addressed in the collection of a specific data set. Cumulatively, however, questions of how data is taken to represent the real world – in terms of equality, diversity, political power relations, etc. – can be made directly relevant to a much bigger picture. If we think about the ‘crisis of democracy’ (Przeworski 2019) relevant questions are, for instance,