Revision of Reanimating cultural heritage: digital repatriation, knowledge networks and civil society strengthening in post-conflict Sierra Leone from Fri, 04/06/2010 - 11:04
Grant Holder:
Dr Paul Basu
This multidisciplinary project is concerned with innovating 'digital curatorship' in relation to Sierra Leonean collections dispersed in the global museumscape. Extending research in anthropology, museum studies, informatics and beyond, the project considers how objects that have become isolated from the oral and performative contexts that originally animated them can be reanimated in digital space alongside associated images, video clips, sounds, texts and other media, and thereby given new life. Whereas the practice of 'digital repatriation' has become increasingly popular with museums, the reception of such initiatives by source communities has not been critically assessed. Thus, a crucial part of the project is to employ innovative participatory methods to pilot and evaluate the digital resource in Sierra Leone.
| Project start date: 2009-02 | Project end date: 2012-01 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
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| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Motion capture | Data capture |
| Sound generation | Data capture |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| Curation | Strategy and project management |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Moving Image, Sound, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Digital resource created:
A pilot digital resource for museums in Sierra Leone containing objects from the country that were physically dispersed abroad.
Data Formats created:
Graphics interchange format file (GIF), Windows Media Audio (WMA)
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University College London |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| British Museum |
| Glasgow Museums |
| Brighton Museum and Art Gallery |
| Sierra Leone National Museum |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Paul Basu |
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| Author(s) of record | Paul Basu |
| Title | Reanimating cultural heritage: digital repatriation, knowledge networks and civil society strengthening in post-conflict Sierra Leone |
| Record created | 2010-07-22 |
| Record updated | 2011-03-03 12:25 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3708 |
| Citation of record | Paul Basu: Reanimating cultural heritage: digital repatriation, knowledge networks and civil society strengthening in post-conflict Sierra Leone. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3708> created: 2010-07-22, last updated 2011-03-03 12:25 |