Event Title
Folksonomies & Folklore: Connecting the Communities of the Past With the Present in the James Callow Archive at UDM (Panel C)
Location
Room 407, South Hall
Start Date
30-9-2016 1:15 PM
End Date
30-9-2016 2:45 PM
Description
My topic focuses on the James Callow Folklore Collection that is housed at the University of Detroit Mercy. I have written a case study on the current archival practices for the collection, and I explore the possibility of including community based tagging and open contributions to the database as a way to connect the collection from the past communities to the present. The poster presentation would be an examination of the implications that such elements would have on the collection and on the representation of communities– and I will illustrate in real time how adding folksonomies into the current taxonomy data model would inherently alter the collection on a fundamental level. Given the nature of folklore, the inclusion of these descriptive methods would allow the participants to create their own folklore and become a part of the original submissions in a way that is otherwise unavailable; the collection would re-imagine itself each time it was viewed.
Folksonomies & Folklore: Connecting the Communities of the Past With the Present in the James Callow Archive at UDM (Panel C)
Room 407, South Hall
My topic focuses on the James Callow Folklore Collection that is housed at the University of Detroit Mercy. I have written a case study on the current archival practices for the collection, and I explore the possibility of including community based tagging and open contributions to the database as a way to connect the collection from the past communities to the present. The poster presentation would be an examination of the implications that such elements would have on the collection and on the representation of communities– and I will illustrate in real time how adding folksonomies into the current taxonomy data model would inherently alter the collection on a fundamental level. Given the nature of folklore, the inclusion of these descriptive methods would allow the participants to create their own folklore and become a part of the original submissions in a way that is otherwise unavailable; the collection would re-imagine itself each time it was viewed.