Digital resources in the Social Sciences and Humanities OpenEdition Our platforms OpenEdition Books OpenEdition Journals Hypotheses Calenda Libraries OpenEdition Freemium Follow us
Kategorien
vDHd2021

Let‘s visit museum collections: What can we gather about the data?

Team: Sara Akhlaq, Fachhochschule Potsdam (@alltheakhlaq) | Sabine de Günther, Fachhochschule Potsdam (@Gracey81698445) | Sarah Kreiseler, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (@MadameKreis) | Marian Dörk, Fachhochschule Potsdam (@nrchtct)

Join us for virtual museum visits to engage with collection interfaces and reflect on the data that is being displayed, the kinds of interactions supported, and claims made about culture. Regardless whether the interfaces are cutting-edge or conventional, the main point of this participatory event is to jointly visit the online collections of museums and explore gaps in their representation. The workshop will adapt digital methods to perform data and interface criticism in the context of digital cultural heritage.

The past decade has seen a rapid rise of museums making their collections available online. While this has furthered access to cultural collections it has also drawn attention to the decisions that go into the selection of cultural data on online platforms. Digital representations of cultural content could lead to stabilizing and reproducing dominant narratives while repressing and diminishing others. Ethical issues in interpretation of these digital collections tend to be caused by lack of context and multi-perspective cultural data. What do visitors get to see and how do they experience the objects? Not only the data but also the interface structures both the appearance of — and the possible interactions with — the respective collections and the underlying data. Therefore we aim to explore online museum collections to jointly reflect about data and its accessibility via images, text, videos, metadata, and interface elements.

After a brief introduction followed by several guided tours, workshop participants are invited to engage with related questions about digital interfaces and the underlying data. We hope to highlight data biases and hegemony in these collections by drawing multiple perspectives to it. While this event is not intended to contribute to the social program of the virtual conference, we are trying to open a collegial space that is conducive to amicable exchanges about both the beauty and the beast in digital cultural heritage.

The tour guides, themes, and museum collections will be announced early March.

For important dates, participation deadline and information about digital tools that we will be using, please visit https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/vdhd2021/
Please note: The workshop will be held in English.

Anmeldung:

  • Anmeldung bis 23.03.2021
  • Anmeldung an: sara.akhlaq(at)fh-potsdam.de

Links:

Termin:

  • Donnerstag, 25.03.2021, 15 – 16 Uhr

OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
vdhd (28. Januar 2021). Let‘s visit museum collections: What can we gather about the data? vDHd2021 – Experimente. Abgerufen am 15. Februar 2025 von https://vdhd2021.hypotheses.org/194


Eine Antwort auf „Let‘s visit museum collections: What can we gather about the data?“

Schreibe einen Kommentar

Deine E-Mail-Adresse wird nicht veröffentlicht. Erforderliche Felder sind mit * markiert

Diese Website verwendet Akismet, um Spam zu reduzieren. Erfahre mehr darüber, wie deine Kommentardaten verarbeitet werden.