Digitizing migration heritage: A case study of a minority museum
Museums are increasingly digitizing their collections and making them available to the public on-line. Creating such digital resources may become means for social inclusion. For museums that acknowledge migration history and cultures of ethnic minority groups as important subjects in multiethnic soc...
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Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)
2011-06-01
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| description | Museums are increasingly digitizing their collections and making them available to the public on-line. Creating such digital resources may become means for social inclusion. For museums that acknowledge migration history and cultures of ethnic minority groups as important subjects in multiethnic societies, digitization brings new possibilities for reaching source communities. This article describes Web projects conducted at Museum Maluku in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The article focuses on the museum’s experiences with cross-institutional Web projects, since digitization of the museum’s collection was initiated through collaboration with major national heritage institutions. The article also discusses how source communities through digital participation can become involved in building cultural heritage. Based on the case study of the Museum Maluku, it is argued that in order to design an appropriate mode of user participation as well as a sense of ownership it is crucial to take memory politics of source communities into account. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-65d26a9a0df84c76953f1fbfd453271f2022-12-22T00:20:33ZdanSammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research0900-96711901-97262011-06-01275010.7146/mediekultur.v27i50.33253518Digitizing migration heritage: A case study of a minority museumRandi Marselis0Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, University of Southern DenmarkMuseums are increasingly digitizing their collections and making them available to the public on-line. Creating such digital resources may become means for social inclusion. For museums that acknowledge migration history and cultures of ethnic minority groups as important subjects in multiethnic societies, digitization brings new possibilities for reaching source communities. This article describes Web projects conducted at Museum Maluku in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The article focuses on the museum’s experiences with cross-institutional Web projects, since digitization of the museum’s collection was initiated through collaboration with major national heritage institutions. The article also discusses how source communities through digital participation can become involved in building cultural heritage. Based on the case study of the Museum Maluku, it is argued that in order to design an appropriate mode of user participation as well as a sense of ownership it is crucial to take memory politics of source communities into account.https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/3325migrationdigitalizationsource communitiesminority museumWebmemory politics |
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| title | Digitizing migration heritage: A case study of a minority museum |
| title_full | Digitizing migration heritage: A case study of a minority museum |
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| topic | migration digitalization source communities minority museum Web memory politics |
| url | https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/3325 |
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