Organizing Knowledge in Museums: A Review of Concepts and Concerns

Turner, Hannah

doi:10.5771/0943-7444-2017-7-472

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“…Embracing an inward‐oriented perspective, digitization enacts a more efficient management of institutional and organizational activities, which is primarily achieved through the dematerialization of archives and collections to ensure the preservation and integrity of the cultural heritage (García‐López et al, 2021). Sticking to a socio‐technical view (Turner, 2017), digitization prompts museums to reframe the relationships between people and objects, contextualizing activities related to the protection and the promotion of the cultural heritage in the cyber‐physical domain (Belhi et al, 2017; Esposito & Ricci, 2021). Besides, adopting an outward‐oriented view, digitization is intended to expand the cultural institutions' inter‐organizational relationships, engaging stakeholders in a co‐creating dialog, which aims at cultural heritage dissemination (Arrigoni & Galani, 2021).…”

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Enhancing museums' attractiveness through digitization: An investigation of Italian medium and large‐sized museums and cultural institutions

Palumbo

2021

Journal of Tourism Research

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The Covid-19 pandemic put the museums' viability under stress, with national and supranational policies imposing closures and restricting the number of admitted visitors. Digitization enables cultural institutions to overcome such constraints, prompting innovative service delivery models. However, evidence on digitization's implications on organizational attractiveness (OA) is scant. Taking a retrospective approach, the article proposes a parallel mediation analysis to shed some light on the effects of digitization on museums' attractiveness. Findings suggest that digitization enhances OA directly and indirectly, via the delivery of digital services to physical visitors. Furthermore, digitization allows museums to meet the virtual visitors' expectations, enriching the cultural service offering.

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Enhancing museums' attractiveness through digitization: An investigation of Italian medium and large‐sized museums and cultural institutions

Palumbo

2021

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…Based on the participants' requirement of object description, this research reuses the specification mentioned for the function to express object collection information by CIDOC-CRM guideline 8 , with adjustments based on use-case requirements. The collection object itself is an instance of E24 Physical Human-Made Thing 9 , with the following properties (and object classes).…”

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“…In many cases, the details of this extensive research are not available as structured data but only reported in a narrative textual document, which limits the findability, reusability and interoperability of such information. Typically, the person who conducts the research or the institute they are representing reflects on object metadata [8]. Once the research is done, the researcher might update a limited amount of metadata in the collection management system.…”

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Polyvocal Knowledge Modelling for Ethnographic Heritage Object Provenance

Shoilee,

de Boer,

van Ossenbruggen

2023

Knowledge Graphs: Semantics, Machine Learning, and Languages

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Purpose: Information about biographies of museum objects (object provenance) is often unavailable in machine-readable format. This limits findability and reusability of object provenance information for domain research. We address the challenges of defining a data model to represent ethnographic cultural heritage objects’ provenance, which includes multiple interpretations (polyvocality) of, and theories for, the object biography, chains of custody and context of acquiring. Methodology: To develop a data model for representing the provenance of ethnographic objects, we conducted (semi-)structured interviews with five provenance experts to elicit a set of requirements. Based on these requirements and a careful examination of six diverse examples of ethnographic object provenance reports, we established a set of modelling choices that utilise existing ontologies such as CIDOC-CRM (a domain standard) and PROV-DM, as well as RDF-named graphs. Evaluation: Finally, we validate the model on provenance reports containing six seen and five unseen ethnographic cultural heritage object from three separate sources. The 11 reports are converted into RDF triples following the proposed data model. We also constructed SPARQL queries corresponding to nine competency questions elicited from domain experts in order to report on satisfiability. Findings: The results show that the adapted combined model allows us to express the heterogeneity and polyvocality of the object provenance information, trace data provenance and link with other data sources for further enrichment. Value: The proposed model from this paper allows publishing such knowledge in a machine-readable format, which will foster information contextualisation, findability and reusability.

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“…2 Today, curatorial descriptions -including those, like George's, made before the information age -are commonly subsumed into services that provide valuable public access to collections via textual search. However, this aggregation comes at a price, for it masks curatorial idiosyncrasy with a datafied veneer of institutional authority (Putnam 2016) at the same time as scholars like Duncan -informed by queer and post-colonial turns -have sought to decentre the authorial voice of institutions in art historical and museological discourse (Çelik 1996;Greene 2016;Turner 2017).…”

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“…But we also note that iconography was discredited for privileging the authority of knowledge found principally in the Global North (Cassidy 1993). And so drawing on the history of knowledge organization (Turner 2017), we acknowledge that interpretation is entangled with content description. 11 See ly_words.txt in Baker and Salway (2019b) for the complete list of -ly words.…”

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Investigating Curatorial Voice with Corpus Linguistic Techniques

Salway

Baker

2020

Mus. Soc.

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We seek to demonstrate how corpus linguistic techniques can facilitate a comprehensive account of curatorial voice in a large digitised museum catalogue and hence leverage its value as a resource for generating new knowledge about: curatorial practice; the historical and cultural contexts of curation; and, the content of collections. We worked with 1.1 million words written by the historian M. Dorothy George between 1930 and 1954 to describe 9330 late-Georgian satirical prints. George’s curatorial descriptions were analysed in terms of their typical informational content and with regards to the extent George included interpretation and evaluation in her descriptions. We discuss how results from such analyses can provide a basis for addressing questions about George’s curatorial voice and, more generally, suggest how this approach could benefit museological practice around the production of descriptions and the re-purposing of legacy catalogues for digital access and analysis of collections.

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Organizing Knowledge in Museums: A Review of Concepts and Concerns

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

Enhancing museums' attractiveness through digitization: An investigation of Italian medium and large‐sized museums and cultural institutions

Enhancing museums' attractiveness through digitization: An investigation of Italian medium and large‐sized museums and cultural institutions

Polyvocal Knowledge Modelling for Ethnographic Heritage Object Provenance

Investigating Curatorial Voice with Corpus Linguistic Techniques

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