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1. Digital Cultural Heritage and Social Participation
If one agrees with this Fribourg Declaration on Cultural Right’s precept that: ‘violations of cultural rights give
rise to identity-related tensions and conflicts which are one of the principal cause of violence, wars and
terrorism,’ then artefacts of culture and identity are of paramount importance for social cohesion. Yet
caretakers of cultural heritage objects are struggling in the digital age. Museums, libraries and archives face
huge challenges in our modern information ecosystem, threatening the crucial interpretive and preservative
layers they provide for cultural information. Trinity College Dublin (TCD) approaches this challenge along the
lifecycle of cultural objects to support new forms of cultural connection in the digital age. TCD is exploring
how, by intervening at various stages using digital humanities technologies, connections to place, time and
Cycles history can be fostered within our museums, libraries and archives.
CENDARI
Digital Curator Vocational Education European Digital and Archival
You found an exciting Resource Infrastructure (CENDARI)
Europe (DigCurV) helps Your search results don’t
professionals in the cultural historical object! Go engages with researchers to
make sense. Go back 1 box. increase access to records of
heritage sector to preserve and forward to CULTURA.
curate the projects and objects that historic importance across the
they possess. It addresses European Research Area by
availability of vocational training in integrating digital archives for
the library, museum, archive and mediaeval and modern history.
cultural heritage sectors.
Artefacts of culture and identity are of paramount
importance for social cohesion. Caretakers of cultural
Data Visualisation reveals heritage objects are struggling in the digital age. Your data doesn’t
Museums, Libraries and archives face huge chall- interoperate with new
exciting results! Go
enges in our modern information ecosystem, collections. Go back 2
forward to CENDARI.
threatening The crucial Interpretive and boxes.
preservative Layers they provide for cultural
information.The objects that human beings leave as
evidence of ‘who we are’ become the basis for
Museum director knows successive generations to address this same
what she needs to do to essential question of identity. In the digital age, the
prepare staff for new process of identity formation has opened up Staff needs up-skilling. Go
virtual exhibition. Go possibilities for exciting global communities to form Back to DigCurV.
forward to DigCurV. around the latest viral meme. Visions of community
mustn't emerge in ignorance of, or in spite of, the
lessons of history and the evidence of human
strength and frailty. Preservation of this perspective
Investigating cultural is the specialty of our museums, libraries and
archives, therefore it is of great importance to civil
objects makes you feel Killer App!
society that they have a voice in the digital
more connected. Go Go forward 2 boxes.
commons. Trinity College Dublin is exploring how digital
forward to CULTURA.
humanities technologies can intervene at various stages to
create connections to place, time, and history fostered in
these institutions. Everyone has a right to heritage.
The archive you need is
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in a country with limited Research through Activity
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IT infrastructure. Go (CULTURA) seeks to bring
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that cultural artefacts are
to CENDARI. experienced and contributed to by
communities.
Presented by: Dr Jennifer Edmond, CENDARI
Ms. Katie McCadden, DigCurv
Dr Owen Conlan, CULTURA