Time: March 16 @ 10 am (Tuesday)
Place: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/64735625753
Title: “Why digital? Museums Digitisation and its use for Stakeholders.”
Abstract: During the last decade there has been huge digitisation projects at museums. This lecture will problematise around these undertakings and reflect upon what its good for and more importantly for whom. Who are the stakeholders and are museums making societal good by digitising its collections and making them public?
Bio:
Fredrik is an archaeologist at Kalmar County Museum and a PhD student at the research school GRASCA at Linnaeus University. His research is focused on how digitalisation can contribute to making Swedish contract archaeology socially relevant in new ways. I investigate how archaeological knowledge production is created in the digital environment. This is achieved by understanding how knowledge production and communication of results is carried out within contract archaeology. The goal is to create new knowledge about how contract archaeology can increase its ability to produce relevant knowledge for authorities, researchers and the general public.
Research profile: https://lnu.se/en/staff/fredrik.gunnarsson/
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Professor Koraljka Golub
Head of iInstitute, http://lnu.se/en//iinstitute/<http://lnu.se/en/iinstitute/>
Digital Humanities co-leader
Linnaeus University
Sweden
Time: 4 March, 9am
Location: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/64735625753
On the “Art of Losing”—Some Notes on Digitization, Copying, and Cultural Heritage
Copying is a creative “art of losing” that sustains culture and lends substance to heritage. This talk will aim to unpack the meaning of this statement and unravel some of the many paradoxes inherent in copying what has been inherited as culture using digital technologies. How is it that cultural reproduction and representation always entail loss while also always perpetuate things and ideas valued as culture and as heritage? What kinds of loss do digital technologies ensure? In what ways do new digital technologies sustain culture and enable heritage to persist? Attempting to unravel some of the conceptual and practical knots that formulate riddles like these, the first half of the talk will investigate a few key terms—copying, culture, and heritage. It will also survey a few of the important technologies used to copy texts in East Asia and on the Korean peninsula—brushes, bamboo slips, paper, woodblocks, new and old forms of movable metal type, photography and various forms of lithography, digital imaging, encoding schema, and forms of machine learning. This brief survey will help to situate a discussion in the second half of the talk about the current state of our creative “arts of loss” as they concern creating digital copies of cultural heritage objects. To suggest the current state of our arts, two research projects will be introduced. The first is an effort by nuns at the Taiwanese Buddhist Temple Fo Guang Shan to create an accurate digital transcription of every historical instantiation of the massive Buddhist canon. Their aim is to help ensure Buddhist heritage. The second is an effort by the National Library of Korea to make more of Korea’s textual heritage available to its patrons as digital transcriptions by using deep learning to overcome long-standing difficulties associated with the automated transcription of Korean texts. The American poet Elizabeth Bishop suggests in her poem “One Art” that “the art of losing is not hard to master.” This talk will suggest that Bishop’s poetic insight is helpful for thinking about digitization and cultural heritage. Loss is inevitable when reproducing cultural heritage by means of digital technologies. These losses are not necessarily a disaster. Each copy makes what has been inherited available again to new places and times. But how we practice this “art of losing” is important to consider since how we copy with our digital tools formulates what is inherited as cultural heritage.
Wayne de Fremery is an associate professor in the School of Media, Arts, and Science at Sogang University in Seoul and Director of the Korea Text Initiative at the Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea in Cambridge, Massachusetts (http://www.koreatext.org/). He also currently represents the Korean National Body at ISO as Convener of a working group on document description, processing languages, and semantic metadata (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 WG 9). Wayne’s research integrates approaches from literary studies, bibliography, and design, as well as information science and artificial intelligence. Recent articles and book chapters by Wayne have appeared in The Materiality of Reading (Aarhus University Press, 2020), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature (Ken Seigneurie ed., 2020), and Library Hi-Tech (2020). Wayne’s bibliographical study of Chindallaekkot (Azaleas), a canonical book of modern Korean poetry, appeared in 2014 from Somyŏng Publishing. In 2011, his book-length translation of poetry by Jeongrye Choi, Instances, appeared from Parlor Press. Books designed and produced by Wayne have appeared from the Korea Institute at Harvard University, the University of Washington Press, and Tamal Vista Publications, an award-winning press he ran before joining the faculty of Sogang University. Some of his recent research projects have concerned the use of deep learning to improve Korean optical character recognition (funded by the National Library of Korea), technology and literary translation (paper forthcoming from Translation Review), and “copy theory” (paper under review). Wayne’s degrees are from Whitman College, Seoul National University, and Harvard.
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Kora
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Professor Koraljka Golub
Head of iInstitute, http://lnu.se/en//iinstitute/<http://lnu.se/en/iinstitute/>
Digital Humanities co-leader
Linnaeus University
Sweden
Dear all,
below pls find info on the webinar we are organizing.
Talk Summary
Join Natalie Milbrodt, Director of the Queens Memory Project, a community archiving program celebrating a decade of collecting oral histories and hosting public events and exhibitions on local history topics in the borough of Queens in New York City. Milbrodt will discuss the program’s origins and development through a variety of partnerships. She will also delve into how a sprawling team of staff, students and volunteers across Queens engage community in the work of historical research and documentation with the aim of complicating the historical record with a diversity of lived experience that, together, tell a fuller story of life in New York City.
Full Bio
Natalie Milbrodt is an information professional and content developer with 20 years of experience working in small business, academic, cultural heritage and library settings. She currently manages the Metadata Services Division within the Queens Public Library's Technical Services Department in New York City. In this role, she oversees archival digitization and the creation and management of metadata for the library's physical and digital collections. This includes the preservation of local history on behalf of the library's community archiving initiative, the Queens Memory Project. Milbrodt founded Queens Memory in 2010, which was honored in 2012 by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services with an Outstanding Collaboration Citation, in 2014 by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York with an Educational Use of Archives Award and in 2019 by the New York State Archives for Excellence in Documenting New York’s History. Milbrodt holds a Masters degree in Library and Information Studies with a concentration in Archives and Cultural Heritage from Queens College, CUNY. Milbrodt graduated in 2000 from Michigan State University with a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities and a Specialization in Film Studies. Before joining the library profession, she worked for film production, design and marketing firms in both creative and management roles. Milbrodt is a founding member of Global Grand Central, a methods sharing platform for measuring and extending the impact of funding granted to cultural practitioners working in local contexts around the world. She is also a founding member of the Design Dream Lab, developing socially engaged services and products like the Memory Kaleidoscope game. Milbrodt serves on the Oral History Association’s Metadata Task Force and as an advisory board member for the New York State Archives, Urban Archive and Wikitongues.
Short Bio
Natalie Milbrodt leads the Queens Public Library’s Metadata Services Division, responsible for the library’s oral history and community archiving program, digitization, and cataloging. She serves on the Oral History Association’s Metadata Task Force and as an advisory board member for Global Grand Central, Urban Archive, the New York State Archives and Wikitongues.
Zoom meeting
Time: Feb 26, 2021 02:30 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Join Zoom Meeting: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/64735625753
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Kora
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Professor Koraljka Golub
Head of iInstitute, http://lnu.se/en//iinstitute/<http://lnu.se/en/iinstitute/>
Digital Humanities co-leader
Linnaeus University
Sweden
Have you ever created or used archaeological data?
Participate in a survey at https://sunet.artologik.net/uu/Survey/271 to make a push towards easier-to-use archaeological data by telling us what you need to know about data to be able to (re)use it effectively.
The survey is carried out as a part of the CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE) research project. CAPTURE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 818210).
CAPTURE investigates what information about the creation and use of archaeological research data ( 'paradata') that is needed to make the research data reusable in the future, and how to capture enough of that information. More information about the project can be found at www.uu.se/en/research/capture
You are kindly invited you to share your experience and your views in this survey if you have ever used and/or created and deposited archaeological data (understood broadly, ranging from digital data to finds collections).
The aim of this survey is to identify
• what information archaeologists who are or have been using different types of data need to know about the data to (re)use it effectively, and
• what archaeologists who have produced consider it to be important for others to know about their data.
Participating in the survey takes approximately 20 minutes.
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