Changes: Stewardship and Cultural Memory Organizations in the Digital Age

Revision as of 09:15, 11 October 2008

Stewardship and Cultural Memory Organizations in the Digital Age was the subject at the Friday Afternoon Seminar (UC Berkeley School of Information) held by Clifford Lynch on September 12^th, 2008.

Usage of terms (Google↑, JSTOR↑)
- cultural record (cf. Google search)
- intellectual record (cf. Google search)
- scientific record (cf. Google search)

Royal collections → national collections
Printing, publishing, copyright↑
- More techniques (~mid 19th c.): photography, audio recording

focused on exhibitions
- ↔ similarity and difference in collections
  - easier with surrogates/replicates
  - cf. publication of parts of manuscripts in different collections worldwide
projects possible due to digitization
- Codex Sinaiticus↑^[1]
- Dead Sea scrolls↑^[2]
Importance of interoperability and standards
Collections and limited institutional knowledge + role of "outsiders"

2-, 3-dimensional
Negatives↑ as sets of pictures depending on technology for copy (exposure↑, contrast↑, material ...)
Digitization (+publication) as part of stewardship

Cultural Memory Organizations
- Intangible Cultural Heritage↑: more potential for preservation in Digital Age
Museums
- interpretative role of scholars ↔ complexity/abundance/interdependence of cultural reality/context
  - validation/evaluation/review of data/information from sources outside museums (outsiders, visitors, private collectors, Web 2.0 collaboration = outside of scholarly expertise)
  - using experience from Wikipedia (no specific role by affiliation to traditional "knowledge" organizations like cultural memory organizations or universities) for validation/evaluation/review process:^[3]
    1. Data/Information (from outsider) ⇒ Museum
    2. How do you know? ⇐ Museum (asks outsider)
    3. Repeat if necessary, documentation of origin (reference)
- accessibility of collections and information about collections
- connecting existing information

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 * [[#Cultural Memory Organizations|Cultural Memory Organizations]]
-** {{Wp|Intangible cultural heritage}}: more potential for preservation in Digital Age
+** {{Wp|Intangible Cultural Heritage}}: more potential for preservation in Digital Age
 * [[#Museums|Museums]]
 ** interpretative role of scholars &harr; complexity/abundance/interdependence of cultural reality/context