Online collections, curatorial agency and machine-assisted curating

Axelsson, Bodil

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“…The latter is rapidly becoming the accessible public persona of many collections, if not 1 University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia of whole museums, and while there may be no substitute for standing beside the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, many people simply do not have the opportunity. Consequently, online collections play an important role in promoting access and public engagement (Anderson, Galvin, de Torres Rodriguez 2018;Axelsson 2018;Bertacchini and Morando 2013;Clerkin and Taylor 2021;Hurley 2016;Rose 2016;Staubermann 2018). However, the formation, structure, and identity of online collections, and the deep impact that accessing such collections can have on research and engagement needs more attention.…”

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Online Museum Collections as Artifacts: A Case Study of New Guinean Necklaces Illustrating Mathematical Approaches as Diagnostics for Collections Management

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Hopwood

2022

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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Mathematical approaches assessing similarity in terms of culture, geography, and zoological components were applied to nine online collections of New Guinean necklaces. When mapped in multidimensional space for peoples, no strong clustering of collections was found, and for provinces two collections formed a distinct cluster from the rest. In zoological space there was no clustering, but one collection occupied a distinctly separate space. A highly significant ( p < .001) effect of collection on the zoological species richness was found. There were significant differences ( p < .05) in zoological entropy between several collections, and a degree of uncertainty or surprise in the zoological composition of the necklace collections. The processes behind such patterns are likely complex, and may reflect issues of funding, unconscious bias, and colonial or missionary histories. The methods explored provide diagnostic tools useful for testing the underlying structures and bias of collections.

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Online Museum Collections as Artifacts: A Case Study of New Guinean Necklaces Illustrating Mathematical Approaches as Diagnostics for Collections Management

Hamilton

Hopwood

2022

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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A diachronic cluster analysis of Danish museum websites

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Svarre

2024

Internet Histories

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Property, Licenses and Labor when MemoryInstitutions Converge with Informational Capitalism

Axelsson¹

2019

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Bodil Axelsson is Associate Professor in Culture and Media Production at Linköping University. She has a PhD in Communication Studies from Linköping University and works in the fields of critical heritage studies, museology and the uses of history. She studies heritage as processes of mediatization and interpretation. Currently she is the principal investigator in the project In Orbit: Distributed Curatorial Agency when Museum Objects and Knowledge go Onlne. She has previously been vice coordinator of the Eunamus project on European National Museums and the director of ACSIS (Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden).

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Online collections, curatorial agency and machine-assisted curating

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Online Museum Collections as Artifacts: A Case Study of New Guinean Necklaces Illustrating Mathematical Approaches as Diagnostics for Collections Management

Online Museum Collections as Artifacts: A Case Study of New Guinean Necklaces Illustrating Mathematical Approaches as Diagnostics for Collections Management

A diachronic cluster analysis of Danish museum websites

Property, Licenses and Labor when MemoryInstitutions Converge with Informational Capitalism

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