Event Title
Virtual Exhibitions in the DH Context: Community-Centered Digital Curation (Panel E)
Location
Room 407, South Hall
Start Date
30-9-2016 3:00 PM
End Date
30-9-2016 4:30 PM
Description
Virtual exhibitions represent the culmination and combination of community heritage, identity, memory, and knowledge in digital form, bringing together data, information, and community input for continued digital curation. What used to be a CD-ROM in the 1980s with digitized texts and photographs of museum artifacts and archival records, has now transformed into a combination of narratives, images, sounds, data, and conversations going viral through social media. Digital curation has extended beyond its original scope of digital archiving, digital preservation, and the outward communication of lexical knowledge; it now embraces meaning construction through community participation in real time as well as physical and virtual spaces. The reversal in the communication of knowledge is a significant marker of the emerging paradigm for digital curation. Virtual exhibitions have a new purpose in the Digital Humanities context, as DH scholars can use various technologies to extract data, mine texts, and focus on new humanistic questions. This presentation presents emerging models of virtual exhibitions in the DH context, exploring the role of community in the digital curation of heritage data and new knowledge.
Virtual Exhibitions in the DH Context: Community-Centered Digital Curation (Panel E)
Room 407, South Hall
Virtual exhibitions represent the culmination and combination of community heritage, identity, memory, and knowledge in digital form, bringing together data, information, and community input for continued digital curation. What used to be a CD-ROM in the 1980s with digitized texts and photographs of museum artifacts and archival records, has now transformed into a combination of narratives, images, sounds, data, and conversations going viral through social media. Digital curation has extended beyond its original scope of digital archiving, digital preservation, and the outward communication of lexical knowledge; it now embraces meaning construction through community participation in real time as well as physical and virtual spaces. The reversal in the communication of knowledge is a significant marker of the emerging paradigm for digital curation. Virtual exhibitions have a new purpose in the Digital Humanities context, as DH scholars can use various technologies to extract data, mine texts, and focus on new humanistic questions. This presentation presents emerging models of virtual exhibitions in the DH context, exploring the role of community in the digital curation of heritage data and new knowledge.