Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital Scholarship

目录描述和策展声音的遗产：数字学术的机会

• 批准号: AH/T013036/2
• 负责人: James Baker
• 金额: $ 0.91万
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT013036%2F2
• 关键词: Legacies; Catalogue; Descriptions; Curatorial; Voice

"Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital Scholarship" will develop a platform for a transformational impact in digital scholarship within cultural institutions by opening up new and important directions for computational, critical, and curatorial analysis of collection catalogues. Extensive digital and digitised sets of curatorial descriptions from legacy catalogues are increasingly available and we seek to realise their potential as valuable resources for cross-disciplinary research into curatorial practice, and for enhancing access to and analysis of collections at scale.Catalogues are fundamental to cultural institutions: they represent their objects, provide the basis of searches for their objects, and communicate knowledge about their objects into the future. Catalogues are also fundamental to the history of cultural institutions, as artefacts of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century professionalisation that have evolved from physical objects such as printed books to digital databases, online discovery services, and linked open data. Catalogues, then, create a lasting legacy. The digitisation of collections has furthered that legacy with the use of descriptions from legacy print catalogues as a starting point for indexing digitised material. Thus we see that the writers of catalogue descriptions are powerful interlocutors not only between objects and viewers, but also between the past and now. And when legacy catalogues are reused as the basis for contemporary descriptions of collection items, a powerful and often difficult to detect "curatorial voice" remains. This voice is a product of the historical and social contexts in which the descriptions were written. This has serious consequences for the trust which users can have in federated catalogues, particularly when parts of those catalogues are steeped in unacknowledged or unidentifiable past voices and colonial gathering. There is therefore an urgent need to elucidate and foreground curatorial "voices", and to do this at scale. Curators and researchers alike require methods that can comprehensively articulate the choices, preferences, and omissions made by curators in what are often large bodies of text produced during decades of work.This project will foreground some of the fundamental ways in which cultural institutions represent their objects and create a pathway to transform the reuse of legacy catalogues for access, scholarship, and research. Our pilot research will investigate the temporal and spatial legacy of a landmark catalogue: the 1.1 million word British Museum 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires', which is the basis of related catalogue data at the Lewis Walpole Library and the British Library. We will demonstrate how methods combining corpus linguistic and archival research can be used to produce an empirical account of curatorial "voice" across a large catalogue. We ask questions about the enduring legacies of curatorial labour, methods for defining and highlighting curatorial voice, the role of digital scholarship in responding to the ways in which legacy descriptions work against contemporary ambitions of cultural institutions, and how to develop sectoral capability in digital scholarship. We will co-produce training materials and reports, deliver proofs-of-concept for changing how legacy descriptions are presented to diverse publics, and release transparent code, data, and methods to enable the reuse of our methods.The project team comprises researchers, curators and technologists from University of Sussex, Yale Digital Humanities Lab, the Lewis Walpole Library and the British Library. The partnerships between the team members, and the wider community, will be developed through pilot research, workshops, and research residencies.

“目录描述和策展声音：数字奖学金的机会”将通过为文化机构内数字奖学金的变革影响开发一个平台，通过打开对计算，关键和策展目录的新的重要方向。越来越多地获得来自遗产目录的广泛数字和数字化的策展描述集，我们试图实现它们作为跨学科研究的宝贵资源的潜在资源，用于跨学科研究，并增强对藏品的访问和分析，并在大规模上访问和分析收藏。对文化机构是基础：他们代表他们的对象的基础，以实现他们的对象的基础，并提供对象的基础。目录也是文化机构历史的基础，因为十九世纪末和二十世纪初的艺术品是从物理对象（例如印刷书籍到数字数据库，在线发现服务）以及链接开放数据的物理对象演变而来的。然后，目录创建了持久的遗产。收集的数字化通过使用旧版印刷目录的描述作为索引数字化材料的起点，进一步促进了这种遗产。因此，我们看到目录描述的作者不仅是对象和观众之间的强大对话者，而且是过去与现在之间的强大对话者。当将遗产目录重复使用作为当代对收集项目的描述的基础时，仍然存在强大且通常很难检测到的“策展声音”。这种声音是描述的历史和社会背景的产物。这对用户在联合目录中可能产生的信任会产生严重的后果，尤其是当这些目录中的部分目录被未被认可或无法识别的过去的声音和殖民地聚会浸泡时。因此，迫切需要阐明和前景策展“声音”，并大规模地做到这一点。策展人和研究人员都需要使用策展人在几十年工作期间经常生产的大型文本中所做的选择，偏好和遗漏的方法。该项目将预示文化机构的某些基本方式，在这些方法中，文化机构可以代表其物体代表他们的对象并创造一种途径来改变遗产核心的途径，以转化遗产目录的访问权限，并获得学术，学术和研究。我们的试点研究将调查地标目录的时间和空间遗产：110万个大英博物馆“政治和个人讽刺目录”，这是刘易斯·沃尔波尔图书馆和大英图书馆的相关目录数据的基础。我们将展示如何将语料库语言和档案研究结合的方法用于在大型目录中对策展“语音”的经验描述。我们询问有关策展劳动的持久遗产，定义和突出策展声音的方法，数字奖学金在响应遗产描述反对现代文化机构野心的方式中的作用以及如何在数字学术中发展部门能力的作用。我们将共同生产培训材料和报告，提供概念证明，以更改如何将遗产描述呈现给多元化的公众，并发布透明的代码，数据和方法，以重新使用我们的方法。项目团队组成了来自苏塞克斯大学，苏塞克大学，耶稣大学，耶稣数字人文人类实验室，莱维斯·沃尔波尔图书馆和英属图书馆的苏塞克斯大学，策展人，策展人和技术人员。团队成员与更广泛的社区之间的合作伙伴关系将通过试点研究，研讨会和研究居住地建立。

项目成果

Detecting and Characterising Transmission from Legacy Collection Catalogues

检测和表征遗留集合目录的传输

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Digital Humanities Quarterly
• 影响因子: 0.4
• 作者: Baker J

Computational Analysis of Catalogue Data (v3)

目录数据的计算分析 (v3)

• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Baker JW