Class Slides / 06.10.2014 from DOM E-5064 Digital Strategies for Museums & Cultural Heritage Course at Aalto University Autumn 2014: http://mlab.taik.fi/digitalmuseum/

1. 15 September 2014
Curating / Archiving
Museums & Archives
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2. What is Curating?
…the development of critical meaning in partnership and
discussion with artists and publics.
Barnaby Drabble (2003)
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3. What is Archiving?
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4. What to Curate in the Digital Age?
Interactivity Connectivity Computability
Steve Dietz (1999, 2000b)
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5. Physical Collecting
Born-Digital Collecting
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6. Digital Only Physical Only Composite
A Framework for Curation?
Thematic Participatory
Deployment
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7. Q & A
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8. A Methodology
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9. Digitize
Add Metadata
Save + Upload
Scan / Photograph
Hi-Resolution
Look at File Formats
Author / Origin
Media / Dimensions
Description
Provenance
Acquisition
Tags
Exhibition
Hard Drive
Collection Management Software (in-house)
Web Collections (Directly)
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10. Check Rights / Licenses
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11. IN-HOUSE PUBLIC
STORAGE ARCHIVE
DropBox - 2GB (Free)
GoogleDrive - 15GB (Free)
Wordpress (Aalto)
Tumblr (Free)
Facebook Page?
Collection Management Software
Other?
Other?
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12. nostalgia
loss identity
tribe community exile
wardrobe food mens talk/facial hair
photographs audio correspondence
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