Much has been, and is, made of the transformative potential of digital resources and historical data for humanities and historical research in recent years. Historians in the global North are flooded with retro-digitised and born-digital materials and tend to take them for granted, grateful for the opportunities they afford. As the late Roy Rosenzweig predicted already in 2003, historians “may be facing a fundamental paradigm shift from a culture of scarcity to a culture of abundance” (Rosenzweig 2003: 739). Yet, if we accept that we do indeed live in a culture of abundance, that abundance is still rarely questioned and qualified, let alone contextualized in time and space. To put it simply: the question of why, where and how we can access what we can access, and how this affects ‘memory’ is rarely posed.