“Evidence of Me” Becoming “Evidence of Us”: A Case Study of the Policy, Processes, Donor Relations and Responses of Selected New Zealand GLAM Institutions to Personal Donations of Collections and Artifacts

Day, Alison; Krtalić, Maja

doi:10.1080/01462679.2021.1971588

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“…However, as with prior works we saw that, while sharing some challenges, artists and writers also display 'the unique documentary patterns of individuals and the expressions of an individual's character and interior struggles' [42,51]. Such uniqueness poses a challenge to the traditional approaches to acquisition and appraisal methods used by heritage institutions, as has been noted in literature discussing models and challenges of donation processes [51][52][53][54], and may therefore create tensions between individual and organisational practices [28,53,55]. As this research showed, the logic and transparency of individuals' organisation practices (e.g.…”

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Information in the personal collections of writers and artists: Practices, challenges and preservation

Krtalić

Dinneen

2022

Journal of Information Science

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This article presents findings from interviews with 18 writers and artists in New Zealand, whose lives and work have potential heritage value. The objective was to investigate the perceived value of participants’ personal collections, the relevant management practices and challenges, and their potential effects on preservation and (re)use. The findings provide a characterisation of the personal information management (PIM) practices of writers and artists, revealed challenges common to organising personal collections across time and devices as well as those caused or increased by the nature of writers’ and artists’ work, and produce insights into the impact of perceived collection value and PIM practices on future access, preservation and (re)use of such collections.

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Information in the personal collections of writers and artists: Practices, challenges and preservation

Krtalić

Dinneen

2022

Journal of Information Science

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“…Czerwinski et al, 2006; Kaye et al, 2006; Marshall, 2007). Yet personal collections often serve as evidence of a person's life when they are gone (Day & Krtalić, 2022; Kim, 2013) and later generations use them to, e.g. “envision the lives of their ancestors” (Kim, 2013, p.156) or examine the endurance of deceased cultural figures (Schott, 2019).…”

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“…Another defining feature of life, in all societies and times, is death. Death is inevitable and ever approaching, and thus motivates, subtly or otherwise, much of life and of information activities: its approach often implies a need for individuals to prepare to transfer important information to family (Krtalić et al, 2021) and for institutions to ensure continued access across generations (Borgman, 2003), and its eventual arrival (or sudden occurrence) often requires a response, like when a donation is unexpectedly bequeathed (Beck, 2014; Day & Krtalić, 2022), or more commonly, must simply be accessed or evaluated and then sold or disposed of (Krtalić et al, 2021; Leaver, 2013). The digital transformation of society and industries continues today, and the norm therein is to accumulate digital information without explicit planning for what happens with/to it at the end of life (Dinneen, 2022; Hellmich & Dinneen, 2022; Krtalić et al, 2021); put simply, a growing proportion of the world are accumulating collections and then dying.…”

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Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Dinneen,

Krtalić,

Davoudi

et al. 2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Death is an inevitable part of life and highly relevant to information management: its approach often requires preparation, and its occurrence often demands a response. Many works in information science have acknowledged so much, and yet death is rarely a focused topic, appearing instead sporadically and disconnected across research. As a result there is no introduction to, overview of, or synthesis across studies on death and information. We therefore conducted an extensive literature search and reviewed nearly 300 scholarly publications at the intersection of death and information (and data) management. Covering seven topics in total, we review two groups of work directly engaging information management in relation to death (digital possessions, inheritance, and legacy; information behavior, needs, and practices around death), three engaging death and technology that require information and its management (death and the Internet, thanatosensitive design and technology‐augmented death practices, and the digital afterlife and digital immortality), and two reflecting the ethical and legal dimensions unique to death and information. We then integrate the collective findings to summarize the landscape of death‐related information research, outline remaining challenges for individuals, families, institutions, and society, and identify promising directions for future information science research.

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Towards Data‐driven GIM tools: Two Prototypes

Dinneen

Donner²,

Bubinger

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Here we describe two approaches to improve group information management (GIM) and draw on the results of prior works to implement them in software prototypes. The first aids browsing and retrieving from large and unfamiliar collections like shared drives by dynamically reducing and re‐organising them. The second supports the transfer and re‐use of collections (e.g. to/by successors, descendants, or curators) by integrating novel sorting and annotation features. The prototypes' source code is shared online and screenshots are presented in the accompanying poster.

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“Evidence of Me” Becoming “Evidence of Us”: A Case Study of the Policy, Processes, Donor Relations and Responses of Selected New Zealand GLAM Institutions to Personal Donations of Collections and Artifacts

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

Information in the personal collections of writers and artists: Practices, challenges and preservation

Information in the personal collections of writers and artists: Practices, challenges and preservation

Information science and the inevitable: A literature review at the intersection of death and information management: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Towards Data‐driven GIM tools: Two Prototypes

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