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Choose your own DH Museum Adventure

Miria Munoz

I remember when I was 7 years old, my mother took my brother and I to see ‘The National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).I remember coming home and being unable to fall asleep at night with all that overload of information in my head. I also remember feeling sorry we went there for just one day! It was simply not enough. I wanted more time to see the objects from close and observe each detail. After that day, everytime we would visit my grand-parents in Rio de Janeiro, we would drive my mother nuts, trying to convince her to take us to the museum again.

Fast forwarding 30 years, one day I started to get a bunch of ‘Whatsapp’ messages from my relatives in Brazil, containing videos of a horrible fire… and the fire…was at my favourite museum ever. I felt a mixture of feelings, from sadness to anger as I just could not accept that we had lost an entire museum due to administrative negligence. Apparently, the fire safety certificate was expired since 2014.

Thus, when I started to ponder upon the possibility of digitalizing museum collections, the first thought that came to my mind was: my favourite museum could have been saved at least from a ‘digital ’perspective. It had a collection of almost 20 million artifacts that had been collected in a period of 200 years.

Information technology comes as a tool to preserve, at least digitally, so many precious confections from the past. It also facilitates the collection, analysis and visualization of artifacts; and helps in terms of public participation and even training methods.

Moreover,itisvalidtorememberhowtechnologyfacilitatesthedemocratizationofarchaeologyasadisciplineamongcommunities,wherepeoplewhowouldneverhavehadachancetobeexposedtosuchfield,endupbeingabletodoso.Furthermore, digital collectionscan be an excellent tool for educators, specially now under this post-Covid era where ‘in person field trips’ are becoming extremely challenging to be arranged.

Therefore, I would like to explore the 3 following readings:

Bivens, Joy, and Ben Garcia, Porchia Moore, nikhil trivedi, Aletheia Wittman. 2019. ‘Collections: How We Hold the Stuff We Hold in Trust’ in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit,https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

Houghton, Bernadette. 2016. Preservation Challenges in the Digital Age. D-Lib Magazine July/August 2016. 22:7/8http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july16/houghton/07houghton.html

Trofanko, Brenda. 2014.“Reconsidering the Educational Promise of Public History Exhibits” in K. Kee, ed. Pastplay.https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv65swr0.16

The first reading will be addressing how we store collections. The second reading will be dealing with challenges we face when it comes to digitalizing collections. And the third one will be covering the benefits of museum digitalization for the educational arena. Please note, I am opened to suggestions!

To watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT8dNfsaBsA

(I feel like crying every time I see this video)

To explore:

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/descubra-o-museu-nacional/5gJywQA_-ABfJw?hl=pt

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Choose your own DH Museum Adventure

Miria Munoz

I remember when I was 7 years old, my mother took my brother and I to see ‘TheNational Museum of Rio de Janeiro’ (Brazil). I remember coming home and beingunable to fall asleep at night with all that overload of information in my head. I alsoremember feeling sorry we went there for just one day! It was simply not enough. Iwanted more time to see the objects from close and observe each detail. After thatday, every time we would visit my grand-parents in Rio de Janeiro, we would drivemy mother nuts, trying to convince her to take us to the museum again.

Fast forwarding 30 years, one day I started to get a bunch of ‘Whatsapp’ messagesfrom my relatives in Brazil, containing videos of a horrible fire… and the fire… wasat my favourite museum ever. I felt a mixture of feelings, from sadness to anger as Ijust could not accept that we had lost an entire museum due to administrativenegligence. Apparently, the fire safety certificate was expired since 2014.

Thus, when I started to ponder upon the possibility of digitalizing museum collections, the first thought that came to my mind was: my favourite museum couldhave been saved at least from a ‘digital’ perspective. It had a collection of almost 20 million artifacts that had been collected in a period of 200 years.

Information technology comes as a tool to preserve, at least digitally, so manyprecious confections from the past. It also facilitates the collection, analysis andvisualization of artifacts; and helps in terms of public participation and even trainingmethods.

Moreover, it is valid to remember how technology facilitates the democratization ofarchaeology as a discipline among communities, where people who would neverhave had a chance to be exposed to such field, end up being able to do so. Furthermore, digital collections can be an excellent tool for educators, specially now under this post-Covid era where ‘in person field trips’ are becoming extremely challenging to be arranged.

Therefore, I would like to explore the 3 following readings:

Bivens, Joy, and Ben Garcia, Porchia Moore, nikhil trivedi, Aletheia Wittman. 2019. ‘Collections: How We Hold the Stuff We Hold in Trust’ in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

Houghton, Bernadette. 2016. Preservation Challenges in the Digital Age. D-Lib Magazine July/August 2016. 22:7/8 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july16/houghton/07houghton.html

Trofanko, Brenda. 2014.“Reconsidering the Educational Promise of Public History Exhibits” in K. Kee, ed. Pastplay. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv65swr0.16

The first reading will be addressing how we store collections. The second reading will be dealing with challenges we face when it comes to digitalizing collections. And the third one will be covering the benefits of museum digitalization for the educational arena. Please note, I am opened to suggestions!

To watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT8dNfsaBsA

To explore:

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/descubra-o-museu-nacional/5gJywQA_-ABfJw?hl=pt

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My three readings are connected through the focus on what should be collected, how it should be preserved, and what are some of the issues with collecting artifacts. 

Area one: Preservation & Curation 
Houghton, Bernadette. 2016. Preservation Challenges in the Digital Age. D-Lib Magazine July/August 2016. 22:7/8 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july16/houghton/07houghton.html
CHIN Digital Preservation Case Study – 8th Hussars Museum. Government of Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/heritage-information-network/services/digital-preservation/hussars-museum-study.html

Area two: Collectors and Collecting 
Sentance, Nathan mudyi. 2018. “Why Do We Collect,” Archival Decolonist blog, August 18, 2018, https://archivaldecolonist.com/2018/08/18/why-do-we-collect/

Something to explore:
https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/informationobject/browse?page=1&sort=alphabetic&sortDir=asc

something to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urExYDdVx4I

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Hi everyone!  My 3 readings explore the ever-changing relationship that the visitor has to museums and public history exhibits/institutions. The Puhl and Kelly readings explore how the visitor themself is changing with access to online materials and new ways of interacting both with the exhibits and the institutions themselves, while the Anderson reading talks about how interpreters and people who work in the field of museums and public history can help to liberate the narrative, they are telling by thinking about who their audience is and who is interpreting/telling the stories of that institution.  Altogether, these readings can help us see how the museum-visitor relationship is changing through technology and how public historians and workers view their visitors, as well as the stories that need to be told and how they can be told.

2.1 Ownership and Authority
Pulh, Mathilde, and Rémi Mencarelli. “Web 2.0: Is the Museum–Visitor Relationship Being Redefined?” International Journal of Arts Management 18, no. 1 (2015): 43-51. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24587086

2.3 Interpretation
Anderson, Annie, and Ashley Rogers, Emily Potter, Elon Cook, Karleen Gardner, Mike Murawski, Swarupa Anila, and Alyssa Machida. 2019. “Interpretation: Liberating the Narrative” in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

4.3 Measuring Engagement and Analytics
Kelly, Lynda. 2016. The (post) digital visitor: What has (almost) twenty years of museum audience research revealed? Museums and the Web https://mw2016.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-post-digital-visitor-what-has-almost-20-years-of-museum-audience-research-revealed

My something to watch is a collection of short films (or just 1 of them) that were shown as a part of the Hidden Lives Illuminated which happened in 2019.  The films were made by currently incarcerated individuals and this relates to my second reading as it talks about interpretation as told by those who shared common lived experiences, for example tour guide who had been incarcerated giving tours at Eastern State Penitentiary.  There are also links to singular films, so you don't have to watch all of them if you don't want to, and more information on the website as well!
https://www.easternstate.org/hiddenlives/films/

My something to explore is the online collections of the ROM!  The ROM has always been one of my favorite museums, as my parents would take my brothers and me all the time when we were younger, so I have a long appreciation for it.

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Choose Your Own DH Adventure - Diversity in Museums and Curation

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Choose Your Own DH Adventure - Diversity in Museums and Curation

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I decided to choose content that reflects the potential misinformation or lack thereof  across diverse minorities groups in terms of culture and historical accuracy. Through my journey of studying museums and history, I find myself eager to ensure that non-white groups are represented as respectfully and to the highest level of historical accuracy as possible, as I find it is not as big of an issue within white cultural history. The articles I've selected are focused not just on minority groups and their history, but having it be accessible and accurate through a digital age that allows their history to not only be validated but humanised going forth when opening discourse about cultures, traditions and historical events. I find all these articles share a similar goal - to accurately communicate, share and educate others on histories and cultures that otherwise might not receive as much notoriety as other exhibits or institutions.

1.1 Cultural Heritage and its Institutions
Hudson, D. On Dark Contents and Digital Divide: Information Inequality and the Reproduction of Racial Otherness in Library and Information Studies

https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10214/9862/Hudson_On_Dark_Continents_and_Digital_Divides_IR_copy.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

2.1 Ownership and Authority
Lashaw, C. Orantes, E. Sharing Authority: Creating Content and Experiences

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

2.2 Preservation and Conservation
Hennessey, K. et al. Collaborative Digital Curation And Recursive Publics: The Making Of Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō-Coast Salish Community In The Fraser River Valley.

https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/collaborative-digital-curation-and-recursive-publics-the-making-of-sqewlets-a-stolo-coast-salish-community-in-the-fraser-river-valley/

3.2 Web Archives
Digital Blackness in the Archive: A Documenting the Now Symposium.

https://www.docnow.io/meetings/stl-2017/

Something to Watch!!
I've linked a video connected to historians work at the preservation of protest signs from the killing of George Floyd from the Washington Post, in order to remind the public of the issue of racial inequity globally. ***As a warning to those, the content in the video is fine and dandy, though some of the commenters on the video had left some insensitive (and possibly uneducated, if you ask me) remarks. But I already know we're better than that here :).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyfRyDdKX7Q&ab_channel=WashingtonPost

Something to Explore!!
Here is a map created by the University of Minnesota (UMN), which displays certain discriminatory acts that were in place against a wide group of individuals, based solely on appearance and geography. This was created in order to explore (or expose, as they put it) how Minnesota had been segregated into the first half of the 20th century, and to further understand the demographics of Minnesota today. The website reads, "we cannot address the inequities of the present without an understanding of the past".
https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/index.html
**scroll further on the site to access the map, then start clicking around to learn!**

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Choose Your Own DH Adventure: Museums on the internet

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I chose content that examines how museums exist on the web. The readings examine how a good online presence increases the engagement and accessibility of museums and historical institutions. In this day and age, many people's primary source of information is on the web, so it is crucial that museums, as a reliable source of information, have an excellent online presence. Additionally, interactive online experiences allow for a tremendous amount of variety, meaning those with different learning styles are more likely to find content that speaks to them. It also allows for creative digital representations such as gamification of information or virtual tours, like the VR tour of the Vatican I chose as an explore item.
This topic is especially important as the Covid-19 pandemic has made it essential for museums to be online.

READINGS
2.4 Measuring Engagement & Analytics
Wong, Amelia. 2015. The Whole Story, and Then Some: ‘Digital Storytellin’ in Evolving Museum Practice Museums in the Web https://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-whole-story-and-then-some-digital-storytelling-in-evolving-museum-practice

4.3 Measuring Engagement & Analytics
Kelly, Lynda. 2016. The (post) digital visitor: What has (almost) twenty years of museum audience research revealed? Museums and the Web https://mw2016.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-post-digital-visitor-what-has-almost-20-years-of-museum-audience-research-revealed

Readings from other sources (Graham on discord)
Knight Foundation. 2020. Digital Readiness and Innovation in Museums: A Baseline National Survey
https://knightfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Digital-Readiness-and-Innovation-in-Museums-Report.pdf

WATCH
A virtual museum tour by the Canadian Museum For Human Rights
The museum posted a tour to allow guests to tour the exhibits from the safety of their own homes during the pandemic. Many institutions have posted videos like this, which are fine, but perhaps there is a better way of offering virtual tours online.

EXPLORE
Museum of the World
An absurdly cool interactive website created by the British Museum. One of my favourite examples of creativity in digital historical representation that is only possible online.

Over The Top
Over The Top is an interactive narrative created by the Canadien War Museum that allows players to experience life in the trenches during the First World War. It is a good, albeit simple, example of how museums can use nonlinear storytelling in digital experiences.

1619 project
An example (when it works) of an interactive historical website that still allows a sense of exploration as it unfolds before you, much like a physical exhibit.

VR tour of the Vatican
Totally encourage you to check this out in VR if you can, but it still works on flat screens.

List of some other virtual tours

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I believe these three readings are connected via their focus on the importance of preservation and access to a collection in an increasingly digital landscape. More importantly, these articles highlight cultural and community ideas, and concerns regarding access and representation in the future of digital archive/collections.

Read
1.3 Sentance, Nathan mudyi. 2018. “Why Do We Collect,” Archival Decolonist blog, August 18, 2018, https://archivaldecolonist.com/2018/08/18/why-do-we-collect/

2.2 Houghton, Bernadette. 2016. Preservation Challenges in the Digital Age. D-Lib Magazine July/August 2016. 22:7/8 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july16/houghton/07houghton.html

3.2 Digital Blackness in the Archive: A Documenting the Now Symposium. 2017. https://www.docnow.io/meetings/stl-2017/

Watch
Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone - Library of Congress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEmmeFFafUs

Explore

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Patrick's FOR REAL Wild DHMUSE Adventure- Prep Phase

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The main throughline I'm seeing here is one of accessibility in the digital age. In Houghton's work, preservation is about ensuring and maintaining the accessibility of digital content from the past and future. Web archives are the natural extension of this preservation work as they provide a place to keep records that is both secure and available to researchers and the public. Of course who are the primary holders of knowledge and archival material? Museums. And so the final reading aims at marketing campaigns to ensure business for museums which in turn ensures continuing access to historical material, whether that be physical or digital.

REPRESENTATIONS
2.2 Preservation and Curation
Houghton, Bernadette. 2016. Preservation Challenges in the Digital Age. D-Lib Magazine July/August 2016. 22:7/8 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july16/houghton/07houghton.html
I'm currently working as a research assistant where I'm digitizing old tapes so I can talk all day about trying to figure out how to preserve content in a digital format.

CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT
3.2 Web Archives
Coffey, Mark, Alan Watts, Duane Degler. 2018. Archives strengthening historical narratives: Sharing digital and linked data resources for broader reach and sustainability. Museums and the Web. https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/archives-strengthening-historical-narrative-sharing-digital-and-linked-data-resources-for-broader-reach-and-sustainability

SOMETHING TO WATCH- The Voyageurs NFB Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-RNt4wNxb4
One on hand, I love this video because it shows a really fantastic representation of the on the ground life of voyageurs,  and yet it also implies some pretty dated and problematic historical narratives. So, add to the fact that it is a freely available film that has been digitized and put on youtube, I think there's lots to talk about and critique here.

SOMETHING TO EXPLORE- Algonquin Park Online Archives
https://algonquinpark.pastperfectonline.com/
In contrast to the archive described by Coffey and Wats above, this archive offers a lot of really interesting material, but falls short on the structure, organization, and metadata that would otherwise make it a really valuable online resource for historians and park enthusiasts alike.

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These readings highlight the challenges that organizations in the GLAM sector are encountering, and present possible solutions that these organizations can use to adapt to their changing environments and continue to thrive into the future.

1.2 Kreps, Christina. 2008. ‘Non-western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective’in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library. https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.library.carleton.ca/en/read?id=/ebooks/ebooks2/pda/2011-12-01/1/12365.9781405157292

3.1 Rao, Seema. 2017. Interstitial Spaces: Social Media As A Tool For Community Engagement Museums and the Web https://mw17.mwconf.org/paper/interstitial-spaces-social-media-as-a-tool-for-community-engagement/
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4.1 Toepler, Stefan. “Caveat Venditor? Museum Merchandising, Nonprofit Commercialization, and the Case of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.” Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 17, no. 2 (2006): 99-113. www.jstor.org/stable/27928011.

To explore:
https://programminghistorian.org/en/
This is a neat website that consists of numerous tutorials to help historians learn new digital techniques. These modules range from building a website using Github to acquiring data from Twitter for analysis and beyond. It seems to be a valuable resource for digital historians of all skill levels.

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Choose your own DH Muse Adventure: Community, connection, and collaboration

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Choose your own DH Muse Adventure: Community, connection, and collaboration

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The three readings explore the relationships between museums and the communities that they are situated in and claim to represent. The readings all touch on how museums are constantly evolving and changing to remain relevant to the contemporary museum-goer, and as sites for social change. I think the readings also explore how museums can be used as places of education, activism and awareness, representation, and connection.

Read
1.2 Legal, Ethical Frameworks for Cultural Heritage
Kreps, Christina. 2008. ‘Non-western Models of Museums and Curation in Cross-cultural Perspective’ in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library.

2.1 Ownership and Authority
Lashaw, Christine and Evelyn Orantes. 2019. “Sharing Authority: Creating Content and Experiences” in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

2.7 Linked Open Data
Tallon, Loic. 2019. Sparking Global Connections to Art through Open Data and Artificial Intelligence https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/now-at-the-met/2019/met-microsoft-mit-art-open-data-artificial-intelligence

Watch
How museums help communities heal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKC5ACxXYA&ab_channel=TED

Community and museums, guidelines for collaboration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60N_hFa2ik0&ab_channel=SARSchoolforAdvancedResearch

Explore
Canadian Museum of Immigration oral history collection

Christi Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch, Uprising: The Power of Mother Earth exhibition

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CHOOSE YOUR OWN DH MUSE ADVENTURE - Josh Skelton

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My three readings are connected through museum ethics and the repatriation of artifacts and cultural heritage. I wanted to focus my connection on how digital advancements and more specifically, digital galleries are helping pave the way for more opportunities of repatriation and decolonization, while also addressing the issues that digitized galleries and digital repatriation can have. I found a few readings in our library which address the growing concerns of repatriation and decolonizing museums, along with showing methods that archaeologists and museums are using in order to work towards repatriation and collaboration with the cultures associated with these artifacts. These readings focus on the social evolution of museum practices and how moving forward with digitized galleries and collections can show both benefits and problems.

READINGS

1.3 Collectors and Collecting

MacDonald, Sharon. 2008. “Collecting Practices” in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.library.carleton.ca/en/read?id=/ebooks/ebooks2/pda/2011-12-01/1/12365.9781405157292

Bivens, Joy, and Ben Garcia, Porchia Moore, nikhil trivedi, Aletheia Wittman. 2019. ‘Collections: How We Hold the Stuff We Hold in Trust’ in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

2.2 Preservation & Curation

Hennessy, Kate, Dave Schaepe, Natasha Lyons, Aynur Kadir, Reese Muntean, Clarence Pennier, Michael Blake. 2018. Collaborative digital curation and recursive publics: The making of Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley. https://mw18.mwconf.org/paper/collaborative-digital-curation-and-recursive-publics-the-making-of-sqewlets-a-stolo-coast-salish-community-in-the-fraser-river-valley/

Something to explore: An article highlighting new technological methods of preservation and re-creation which can lead to repatriation.

https://theconversation.com/3d-printing-is-helping-museums-in-repatriation-and-decolonisation-efforts-126449

Something to watch: I have included two videos here, one is a ted talk with Chip Colwell, the Senior Curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, describing recent efforts of repatriation. The other is a short interview with James Cuno, a well known art historian and President of the J. Paul Getty Trust, on his argument against repatriating artifacts, it is interesting to see a counter argument to a topic that is so controversial.

Why Museums are returning cultural treasures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUUP2MMz7PU&t=1s

James Cuno on Museums: The Case Against Repatriating Artifacts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5dRJ1LjryI

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I feel the connections formed between my readings are somewhat abstract, but essentially, they demonstrate of how data is formed, published, and used. The Zhang & Mauney article describes the efforts to build connections between archival description and the descriptive metadata of digital objects as this data is generated, the Lincoln article discusses one of the ways this GLAM data is made accessible and represented to the public (and subsequently, some issues with this), and the Stewart & Walker article demonstrates ways in which data gathered from GLAM fields can be analysed and used for inquiry/discovery within GLAM institutions.

Readings
1.4 Informatics and Organizing Cultural Heritage:

Lincoln, Matthew D. “Some problems with GLAM data on GitHub.” Matthew Lincoln, PhD (blog), 06 Jan 2016, https://matthewlincoln.net/2016/01/06/some-problems-with-glam-data-on-github.html.

2.6 Metadata & Paradata:

Zhang, Jane, and Dayne Mauney. “When Archival Description Meets Digital Object Metadata: A Typological Study of Digital Archival Representation.” The American Archivist 76, no. 1 (2013): 174-95. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43489654

3.1 Social Media & Audience Research, Ethics & Practice:

Stewart, Brenton, and Jessie Walker. 2018. “Build It and They Will Come? Patron Engagement Via Twitter at Historically Black College and University Libraries” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2017.09.016

(SG: if you search for that url, the DOI, in the macodrum library search bar, you'll get to a version you can access)

Media

Something to explore: The Met Open Access

This repository hosted on GitHub features datasets of information on more than 470,000 artworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collections-- I feel it's interesting to explore in the context of the Lincoln article. What issues raised in this article can you find in this publication of data?

Something to watch: ITP/IMA Winter Show 2019

This  video features projects created by students in either the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) or the Interactive Media Arts (IMA) at NYU-- while it's not quite the type of coding we're doing in this class, I feel a number of the projects speak to the potential of what data (and metadata) can be used for.

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These three readings seem to be connected through exploring the purpose of museums and how that purpose continues or changes in the modern digital world.
Readings:
1.1
Bennett, Tony. 1990. “The Political Rationality of the Museum,” Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture 2, no. 1 (1990), http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/3.1/Bennett.html.

1.3
Sentance, Nathan mudyi. 2018. “Why Do We Collect,” Archival Decolonist blog, August 18, 2018, https://archivaldecolonist.com/2018/08/18/why-do-we-collect/

2.4
Wong, Amelia. 2015. The Whole Story, and Then Some: ‘Digital Storytellin’ in Evolving Museum Practice Museums in the Web https://mw2015.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/the-whole-story-and-then-some-digital-storytelling-in-evolving-museum-practice

I chose this video and website because they provide examples of how museums can operate online to share information in a digital age.
Something to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYk0GH5iFYI

Something to explore:
:https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/a-global-view/europe/france/

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Choose Your Own DH Adventure: Past, Present and Future of Museums

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These readings are connected not so much by a central, singular theme but by an arc, an evolution, of museums: their past, present, and future. Museums have a legacy of exclusivity, elitism, colonialism, and white supremacy guised as academia. I chose readings that discuss the origins of the public museum, their colonial roots and how people of colour are pointing to the racialized Othering in MLIS and their work to subvert colonialism and the institutionalized structures of racism. The other readings focus on collections and using them as a site for social action and how influencers can have a large impact in changing how we think about museums, how they're accessed, and what knowledge institutions need to do in order to appeal to new audiences in a digital age.

To complement these readings, I chose the video APES**T by the Carters (Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z) because their music video poses an interesting dichotomy of what museums are (what they represent, what is considered 'art', what is worth remembering) and Black representation in art and history. Set in the Louvre, I think it adds an interesting dimension to reinterpreting museums and how they can change through influencers, conversations in digital spaces, and new audiences. Two other videos (they're longer and are there to watch if you're interested) are documentaries that focus on the dark history of museums, how they commodified POC bodies and put them on display, and contribute to the necessary conversation about what museums are and what they can be.

READINGS

1.1 Cultural Heritage and its Institutions
Abt, Jeffrey. 2008. ‘The Origins of the Public Museum’ in Sharon Macdonald, ed. ‘Companion to Museum Studies’. Available online from Macodrum Library.  https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.library.carleton.ca/en/read?id=/ebooks/ebooks2/pda/2011-12-01/1/12365.9781405157292

1.3 Collectors and Collecting
Bivens, Joy, and Ben Garcia, Porchia Moore, Nikhil Trivedi, Aletheia Wittman. 2019. ‘Collections: How We Hold the Stuff We Hold in Trust’ in MASSAction, Museums As Site for Social Action, toolkit, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58fa685dff7c50f78be5f2b2/t/59dcdd27e5dd5b5a1b51d9d8/1507646780650/TOOLKIT_10_2017.pdf

3.1 Social Media & Audience Research, Ethics & Practice

Byrd-McDevitt, Lori. 2019. “Reimagining Social Influencers through an Invitation Culture” in Humanizing the Digital https://ad-hoc-museum-collective.github.io/humanizing-the-digital/chapters/3/

WATCH

APES**T by the Carters, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbMqWXnpXcA&feature=emb_logo

Human Zoos: America's Forgotten History of Scientific Racism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6Zrol5QEk (TW: racism, potentially upsetting imagery. 58 minutes.)

Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña: The Couple in the Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv26tDDsuA8&feature=emb_imp_woyt (same TWs apply, and there is a very long, high pitched noise at the beginning that's part of the piece, but have your sound on low when opening it to save your ears. This is also a shorter video than the other doc - 32 minutes.)

EXPLORE
National Museum of African American History and Culture, https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collectio

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I believe my three readings are connected by focusing on how to use collections to connect with, capture the attention of, and be relevant for the institutions audience.

1.4 Informatics and Organizing Cultural Heritage
- Sigmond, Cathy. 2019. “Calm Technology in Museums” in Humanizing the Digital https://ad-hoc-museum-collective.github.io/humanizing-the-digital/chapters/2/

3.1 Social Media & Audience Research, Ethics & Practice
- Stewart, Brenton, and Jessie Walker. 2018. “Build It and They Will Come? Patron Engagement Via Twitter at Historically Black College and University Libraries” https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2017.09.016

4.2 Marketing Heritage
- Van Broekhoven, Laura N. K. “Calibrating Relevance at the Pitt Rivers Museum.” In Dethroning Historical Reputations: Universities, Museums and the Commemoration of Benefactors, edited by Pellew Jill and Goldman Lawrence, 65-80. London: School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2018. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv512v68.12

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Something to explore: Smithosnian Open Access https://www.si.edu/OpenAccess

Something to watch: A webinar walkthrough on how to navigate the Library and Archives Canada World War One Personnel Records
https://youtu.be/b3ZTU2UaJB0

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My readings I *think* are connected by the use of collections to connect attention; they are:

Area One: Collections
- Sentance, Nathan mudyi. 2018. “Why Do We Collect,” Archival Decolonist blog, August 18, 2018, https://archivaldecolonist.com/2018/08/18/why-do-we-collect/

Area Two: Engagement
-'Look at this absolute unit' An examination of a viral tweet and recommendations for the MERL social media strategy https://merl.reading.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2018/05/Absolute-Unit-report.pdf

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Something to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUIH05_fo8s

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Something to explore:
https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/hieroglyphic/fQLCPcimXHBQJw

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