Museum Libraries and Archives in the Digital 21st Century

Bury, Stephen

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“…Projecting forwards, this presents new challenges for archives that are collected and exhibited by museums and libraries [14]. We need only examine the uproar at the Whitney Museum (see Section 5) over a last-minute cancellation of an exhibition mounted by the museum s archivist lacking curatorial skills in contemporary art around collection identification, copyright, interpretation, communication with artists, and social/art contexts, whether locally, nationally, and globally.…”

Section: Redefining Archives For the Born-digital Worldmentioning

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“…Rather it should use the new capabilities of computing to broaden and validate the curatorial vision. Because museum archives and special collections are generally hidden from public view, despite their key function in scholarly research, they add essential documentation to museum objects and to establishing new interpretations and themes for exhibitions [14]. The relationship of art and archives in the context of exhibitions comes under the purview of curatorial staff and serves to augment information around works of art, with the aim of enriching the viewer s understanding and engagement.…”

Section: Archivist As Curator -The Case Of the Whitney Museummentioning

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“…The archivist will need to take a leadership role in the archival context, content, public service, and social impact, both onsite and on the web. These new dynamics of archival roles and responsibilities need to be part of the professional education of archivists in the 21 st century [14]. Achieving this requires a paradigm shift to human-centered systems for archives as the driving force connecting people to the rich content of archives and engaging them in new historical perspectives and arguments supporting a more diverse and inclusive knowledge base, with global perspectives.…”

Section: Reimaging Archives Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Computational Culture: Transforming Archives Practice and Education for a Post-Covid World

Giannini

Bowen

2022

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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This paper takes a landscape view of archives practice now operating in a sea of human digital behavior, interacting with computational systems embedded in real and virtual life, part of our complex global digital ecosystem driving cultural and social change. We envision a new computational archives framework, designed to be user-centric, in ways that integrate traditional archival practice into an overarching computational framework incorporating structured and unstructured data, computational tools, AI (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning), robotics, and automation intended to aid in management and public engagement with physical, digitized, and born-digital documents. Set in a networked environment of increasing computing power, this “more than human” system derives from the latest computing advances from NLP (natural language processing) and image recognition to artificial neural networks. We envision an archives system that is at once complex and integrated into a new inclusive and diverse cultural fabric. This paper covers general issues that have been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, together with two institutional case studies.

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Computational Culture: Transforming Archives Practice and Education for a Post-Covid World

Giannini

Bowen

2022

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“…This ongoing process has been labelled the digital turn and has revolutionised every discipline interested in studying or curating the past (Nicholson 2013). Cultural heritage institutions have produced digital resources for various purposes (Bury 2019), which, due to the creation and widespread use of interactive online heritage platforms Notes 1. This information relies on field notes taken between 2017 and 2020, as a result of meetings with the staff of the Europeana Foundation, participation in events promoted by Europeana, and a research residency at the Europeana Foundation between May and July 2019.…”

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Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe

2023

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CoNtENts vi 6 Recognising urban heritage written in water: mapping fluctuating articulations in time and space Moniek Driesse 7 Participatory design in the context of heritage-development: engaging with the past in the design space of historical landscapes Mela Zuljevic 8 The (over)touristification of European historic cities: a relation between urban heritage and short-term rental market demand Łukasz Bugalski 9 Overtourism versus pandemic: the fragility of our historic cities

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“…To emerge and to improve their visibility, digitisation could be considered as a 'converging activity, where information about object and context is brought together' (p. 19) [10]. Bury states that 'fewer museum libraries and archives have grappled with the more challenging problems of born digital art-rich websites' (p. 483) [11].…”

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Museum libraries in Spain: A case study at state level

Serrano

Avilès

Cuenca

2020

Journal of Information Science

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Special libraries are essential information and documentation centres for university teachers and researchers due to the quality and richness of their collections. In Spain, it is estimated that there are 2456 special libraries, although many are unknown either generally or among information professionals. These include museum libraries, which are important centres with valuable collections of bibliographic heritage for the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. The aim of this research is to gain an understanding of the real state of these information units and promote the social value of museum libraries in Spain. To do this, a survey was sent to the libraries of state-owned and -managed museums under the General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Property (Ministry of Culture and Sports) of the Government of Spain. This general objective will be accompanied by a review of the scientific literature on various aspects of museum libraries at national and international level. After addressing the research methodology, the results obtained will be discussed and will include the following topics: collection management, library services and staff, economic and technological resources and finally, library management. Conclusions include recommendations for museum librarians and reveal that institutional cooperation is a strategic issue to improve both museum libraries visibility and their social recognition as cultural and research centre.

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Museum Libraries and Archives in the Digital 21st Century

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Computational Culture: Transforming Archives Practice and Education for a Post-Covid World

Computational Culture: Transforming Archives Practice and Education for a Post-Covid World

Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe

Museum libraries in Spain: A case study at state level

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