scholarly journals A Multiple Perspective Account of Digital Curation for Cultural Heritage: Tasks, Disciplines and Institutions

Author(s):  
Tugce Karatas ◽  
Vincenzo Lombardo
Archivaria ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 6-47
Author(s):  
Colin Post

Artists have long engaged with digital and networked technologies in critical and creative ways to explore both new art forms and novel ways of disseminating artworks. Net-based artworks are often created with the intent to circulate outside traditional institutional spaces, and many are shared via artist-run platforms that involve curatorial practices distinct from those of museums or commercial galleries. This article focuses on a particular artist-run platform called Paper-Thin, characterizing the activities involved in managing the platform as digital curation in a polysemous sense – as both the curation of digital artworks and the stewardship of digital information in a complex technological ecosystem. While scholars and cultural heritage professionals have developed innovative preservation strategies for digital and new media artworks housed in institutional collections, the ongoing care of artworks shared through networked alternative spaces is largely carried out co-operatively by the artists and curators of these platforms. Drawing on Howard Becker’s sociological theory of art worlds as networks of co-operative actors, this article describes the patterns of co-operative work involved in creating, exhibiting, and then caring for Net-based art. The article outlines the importance, for cultural heritage professionals, of understanding the digital-curation practices of artists, as these artist-run networked platforms demonstrate emergent approaches to the stewardship of digital culture that move beyond a custodial paradigm.


2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Molloy ◽  
Ann Gow ◽  
Leo Konstantelos

In 2013, the DigCurV collaborative network completed development of a Curriculum Framework for digital curation skills in the European cultural heritage sector. DigCurV synthesised a variety of established skills and competence models in the digital curation and LIS sectors with expertise from digital curation professionals, in order to develop a new Curriculum Framework. The resulting Framework provides a common language and helps define the skills, knowledge and abilities that are necessary for the development of digital curation training; for benchmarking existing programmes; and for promoting the continuing production, improvement and refinement of digital curation training programmes. This paper describes the salient points of this work, including how the project team conducted the research necessary to develop the Framework, the structure of the Framework, the processes used to validate the Framework, and three ‘lenses’ onto the Framework. The paper also provides suggestions as to how the Framework might be used, including a description of potential audiences and purposes.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria José Vicentini Jorente ◽  
Anahi Rocha Silva ◽  
Ricardo Medeiros Pimenta

RESUMO O Sistema Nacional de Informações e Indicadores Cultural (SNIIC) é uma plataforma convergente e colaborativa que reúne objetos e recursos digitais, com o objetivo de agregar em uma única base de dados informações referentes à cultura e possibilitar o monitoramento das metas e implementação do Sistema Nacional de Cultura (SNC). O objetivo deste trabalho é refletir sobre a atualização dos conceitos de memória em suas instâncias individual, coletiva e, finalmente, digital considerando:(a) quais as possibilidades que a plataforma digital SNIIC pode oferecer para a promover de discursos plurais, dar voz e visibilidade à diversidade cultural; e (b) qual o seu papel na construção, preservação e disseminação da memória coletiva e do patrimônio cultural. A metodologia da pesquisa qualifica-se por sua natureza bibliográfica, descritiva e exploratória, concentrando-se na abordagem temática da ciência da informação acerca da web colaborativa e seus reflexos para a cultura e memória sociais. Muitos desafios e questionamentos surgem a respeito da participação e colaboração do usuário, assim como dos novos fluxos informacionais por meio de aplicações web, da preservação dos inúmeros registros de atividades e patrimônios culturais, para que sirvam de subsídios na composição da memória individual e social brasileira. Resta-nos conhecer, fazer uso efetivo e disseminar a existência da plataforma cultural, enfatizando sua importância e funcionalidades, estimulando a participação das pessoas a atuarem na construção coletiva da cultura, por meio da apropriação social da informação cultural e mediante as múltiplas formas de interação daí surgidas.Palavras-chave: Memória na Internet; Cultura; Informação e Tecnologia; WebColaborativa; Plataforma Digital.ABSTRACT The Brazilian National System of Cultural Information and Indicators (Sistema Nacional de Informações e Indicadores Cultural - SNIIC) is a convergent and collaborative platform which  unites digital resources meant to aggregate in one single data base the information regarding cultural matters in order to monitor the System's goals and implementation. The aim of this article is to reflect on the concept of memory in its individual, collective and digital instances considering (a) the means that the SNIIC digital platform can offer to promote plural speech, to give voice and visibility to cultural diversity and (b) the role it plays in the construction, preservation and dissemination of memory and cultural heritage. The research methodology used is bibliographic, descriptive and exploratory, concentrating on the thematic approach of Information Science regarding the collaborative web and its effects on culture and social memory. Many challenges and issues regarding individual participation and collaboration arise, as well as on new information flows and preservation of the numerous records of activities and cultural heritage in order to subsidise the construction of individual and social Brazilian memory. It is important to explore, to use effectively, and to publicize the existence of the cultural platform, highlighting its importance and functionalities, stimulating people's participation in the collective building of culture through social appropriation of the cultural information in multiple interaction forms.Keywords: Memory on the Internet; Culture; Information and Technology; Collaborative Web; Digital Platform.  


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