Animating the archive

Schnapp, Jeffrey T.

doi:10.5210/fm.v13i8.2218

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“…(1) Develop transcultural advancement of understanding the human condition with a "glocal" approach (i.e., for global futures with local heritage). e neologism glocal was apparently coined by Manfred Lange who, in his work for the May 1990 Global Change Exhibition, sought to capture the complex interplay between the local, the regional, and the world-wide" as reported in [63]: 80. . is can be done in the real world, which is l'aiuola che ci fa tanto feroci (Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, XXII, 151: e little threshing-floor which makes us so fierce) [64], with the ethics of "freedom as a generator of responsibility" (refer to [65]: 64-73).…”

Section: Discussing Old and New Human Ambitionsmentioning

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Defining Heritage Science: A Consilience Pathway to Treasuring the Complexity of Inheritable Human Experiences through Historical Method, AI, and ML

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2021

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Societies have always used their heritage to remain resilient and to express their cultural identities. Today, all the still-available experiences accrued by human societies over time and across space are, in principle, essential in coping with the twenty-first century grand challenges of humanity (refer to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals). Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms can assist the next generation of historians, heritage stakeholders, and decision-makers in (1) decoding unstructured knowledge and wisdom embedded in selected cultural artefacts and social rituals, (2) encoding data in machine-readable systems, (3) aggregating information according to the user’s needs in real time, and (4) simulating the consequences of either erasing, neglecting, putting in latency, or preserving and sharing specific human experiences. What our global society needs is a multilingual and transcultural approach to decode-encode the treasure of human experience and transmit it to the next generation of world citizens. This approach can be the pathway to work on a new science of heritage, its ethics, and empathy.

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Section: Discussing Old and New Human Ambitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Defining Heritage Science: A Consilience Pathway to Treasuring the Complexity of Inheritable Human Experiences through Historical Method, AI, and ML

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“…The sub-discourse is present in all discourses even if not entirely apparently in all arguments used especially in the others as archivists and archives in society discourses. Schnapp (2008) refers to the "new possibilities" offered by the "Internet 2.0", Samouelian (2009) contrasts the traditional archival duties and the need to keep up with "Web applications". Also Zimmerman (in (B9)) sees technology as the principal propeller of positive change in archives.…”

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The unbearable lightness of participating? Revisiting the discourses of “participation” in archival literature

Huvila

2015

Journal of Documentation

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate how archivists, records managers and scholarly literature in the field(s) analyse how "participation" is discussed in the context of archives and records management, and to explore practical and theoretical implications of the disclosed discursive practices. Design/methodology/approach -The analysis is based on a discourse analysis of a body of archival literature and a sample of posts collected from the archival and records management blogosphere.Findings -The analysis shows that instead of discussing one notion of participation, the archival science literature is referring to nine different and partly conflicting types of participation from three broad perspectives: management, empowerment and technology. The discourses have also conflicting ideas of the role of engagement and enthusiasm, and of that what do the different stakeholder communities see as real options.Research limitations/implications -The analysed material consists of a limited sample of mainly English language texts that may not capture all the nuances of how participation is discussed in the archival literature. Practical implications -A better understanding of how different claims of the benefits and threats endorsing "participation" in archives helps to develop effective and less contradictory forms of collaboration between different stakeholders. Originality/value -In spite of the popularity of the notion of "participation", there little, especially critical, research on how participation is conceptualised by archives professionals and researchers.

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“…In a "networked environment, cultural production becomes a form of cultural preservation and social remembering" to the extent that "preservation is being merged into people's ongoing cultural engagements-commercial, civic, and private" [25] even when the purpose of the engagements is not explicitly targeted at preservation. Schnapp has called this participatory process of memorialization "archive you" [26]. Social networks exemplify how people have inadvertently become their own historians through the angst for self-memorialization that preserves the minutest details of living.…”

Section: "Archive You": New Self-archiving Historical Subjectmentioning

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Networked Memory Project: A Policy Thought Experiment for the Archiving of Social Networks by the Library of Congress of the United States

Georas

2014

Laws

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This article explores the challenges posed by an archival interest in the broad palimpsest of daily life left on social networks that are controlled by private corporations. It addresses whether social networks should be archived for the benefit of future generations and proposes a policy thought experiment to help grapple with these questions, namely, the proposal for the formation of the public interest-oriented Networked Memory Project by the Library of Congress for the archiving of social networks. My discussion of the challenges posed by this thought experiment will focus on the U.S. legal framework within which the Library of Congress operates and take Facebook. To the extent that social networks have user-generated contents that range from the highly "private" to "public" as opposed to other networked platforms that contain materials that are considered "public", the bar for the historical archival of social networks is much higher. Almost every archival effort must contend with the legal hurdle of copyright, but the archiving of social networks must also address how to handle the potentially sensitive nature of materials that are considered "private" from the perspective of the social and legal constructions of privacy. My theoretical exercise of proposing the formation of the Networked Memory Project by the Library of Congress responds to the need to consider the benefits of a public interest-oriented archive of social networks that can counter the drawbacks of the incidental corporate archiving taking place on social networks.

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Animating the archive

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Defining Heritage Science: A Consilience Pathway to Treasuring the Complexity of Inheritable Human Experiences through Historical Method, AI, and ML

Defining Heritage Science: A Consilience Pathway to Treasuring the Complexity of Inheritable Human Experiences through Historical Method, AI, and ML

The unbearable lightness of participating? Revisiting the discourses of “participation” in archival literature

Networked Memory Project: A Policy Thought Experiment for the Archiving of Social Networks by the Library of Congress of the United States

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