The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures

Bettivia, Rhiannon; Stainforth, Elizabeth

doi:10.2307/j.ctv12pnscx.8

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“…Museums and academics have for some time wrestled with perceived clashes between curatorial expertise and recognising other knowledges inclusively. Bettivia and Stainforth (2019) employ notions of 'governmentality' from in a critique of how Europeana (among others) embodies a set of political ideas in its organisation and presentation of knowledge privileging particular ideas of 'Europeanness' to the exclusion of others. What is particularly concerning with the inclusion of AI at scale in museums is how particular kinds of knowing (trained, finite, unequivocal) are inscribed in the consumption and production of culture.…”

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Accession: A collecting Booth for an AI Museum

Schofield

2022

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Accession is a collecting booth for an imaginary museum whose collection is described and organised by AI. Visitors submit everyday items to the booth where they are photographed and subjected to a number of AI processes which describe and classify the objects submitted. Through the exhibition the digital collection grows but as it does so the AI management becomes more and more selective about what is and is not accepted, rejecting new items that are a poor fit for the collection. Museum collections and AI classifiers rely on maintaining ho- mogeneity. A museum that collected anything would be a dumping ground with no identity, while AIs rely on training sets that have strong visual commonality. Both rely on a sense of sameness but both are subject to critical debates about diversity and representation. Accession explores this relationship by acting out a fictional but plausible scenario through commercially available AI technologies.

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Accession: A collecting Booth for an AI Museum

Schofield

2022

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“…Simultaneously, work with regional organizations and some of its grant projects focus on access to hidden collections built on relationships with smaller, localized communities (Cohen, 2020). While there is not a simple dichotomy between nation and community (Bettivia and Stainforth, 2019), commonplace uses of these terms prompt consideration of how far the nation is compatible with communities in digital public spaces. Community is often embraced as a more authentic site for creating and valuing cultural heritage materials, but it can also have the effect of othering people, placing them in opposition to homogenized imaginaries of national identity (Hall, 1999;Anderson, 2006;Manguel, 2020).…”

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“…The DPLA makes an appeal to the concept of nation in its designation of being “of America.” Simultaneously, work with regional organizations and some of its grant projects focus on access to hidden collections built on relationships with smaller, localized communities (Cohen, 2020). While there is not a simple dichotomy between nation and community (Bettivia and Stainforth, 2019), commonplace uses of these terms prompt consideration of how far the nation is compatible with communities in digital public spaces. Community is often embraced as a more authentic site for creating and valuing cultural heritage materials, but it can also have the effect of othering people, placing them in opposition to homogenized imaginaries of national identity (Hall, 1999; Anderson, 2006; Manguel, 2020).…”

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Negotiating digital public spaces: context, purpose and audiences

Bettivia

Stainforth²

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to investigate digital public spaces and audiences and to explore the relationship of digital public spaces to both ideas of nationhood and physical public institutions.Design/methodology/approachThe article investigates tensions arising from the conjuncture of public spaces and digital culture through the lens of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). This research uses qualitative content analysis of a range of data sources including semi-structured interviews, primary texts and secondary texts.FindingsThe construction of the public library space as a digital entity does not attract anticipated audiences. Additionally, the national framing of the DPLA is not compatible with how audiences engage with digital public spaces.Originality/valueDrawing on original, qualitative data, this article engages with the prevalent but undertheorized concept of digital public spaces. The article addresses unreflexive uses of the digital public and the assumptions connected to the imagined audiences for platforms like the DPLA.

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Geopolitics of Digital Heritage

Grincheva,

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2024

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Geopolitics of Digital Heritage analyzes and discusses the political implications of the largest digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance, from the city-state governed Singapore Memory Project, to a national aggregator like Australia's Trove, to supranational digital heritage platforms, such as Europeana, to the global heritage aggregator, Google Arts & Culture. These four dedicated case studies provide focused, exploratory sites for critical investigation of digital heritage aggregators from the perspective of their geopolitical motivations and interests, the economic and cultural agendas of involved stakeholders, as well as their foreign policy strategies and objectives. The Element employs an interdisciplinary approach and combines critical heritage studies with the study of digital politics and communications. Drawing from empirical case study analysis, it investigates how political imperatives manifest in the development of digital heritage platforms to serve different actors in a highly saturated global information space, ranging from national governments to transnational corporations.

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The Dynamics of Scale in Digital Heritage Cultures

Cited by 3 publications

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Accession: A collecting Booth for an AI Museum

Accession: A collecting Booth for an AI Museum

Negotiating digital public spaces: context, purpose and audiences

Geopolitics of Digital Heritage

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