Weaving communities of practice. Textiles, culture and identity in the Andes: a semiotic and ontological approach.
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Grant Holder:
Dr Sven Helmer
Research in Bolivia, Peru and Chile,
combined with museum research there and in the UK, focuses on Bolivia,
Peru, and Chile on the basis of previous ethnographic, archaeological
and museological knowledge and contacts, and three time horizons:
Tiwanaku, the Inka-early colony, and the contemporary. The primary aims
of this project are: to link visual, computer and museum studies in
areas of cognition, and curatorial methods; to advance textile studies
in areas of structure mapping and correlations with socio-cultural data;
to advance understanding of meta-learning in visual contexts; to ensure
that, through exchanges of ideas, methods, and technologies, the study
of the visual aspects of man-machine interface methodologies are better
integrated with the social sciences. Secondary aims include providing
new methods for textile producers to document and defend their textile
patrimony and understanding regional textual practices from the
perspective of Andean weavers contributes to decolonisation studies, and
new intercultural ontological approaches.
| Project start date: 2009-07 | Project end date: 2012-06 |
Subject domains:
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Record linkages | Data analysis |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
3D object, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Google Earth, Protégé-OWL, Sawu-3D
Source material used:
Textile collections from various museums in South America (and throughout the world). CIDOC-CRM ontology for cultural heritage and museum curation.
Digital resource created:
Resources available from the website include a map of textile-producing regions and distribution, a forum for discussion, and other supporting materials currently under development(this includes a knowledge base for Andean textiles based on an ontology, it is planned to make this information via a web site).
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
OWL/RDF (multi-media formats are still under investigation)
Metadata standards employed:
Dublin Core, simple (DC)
Publications:
Arnold, Denise Y., Sven Helmer, and Rodolfo Velasquez Arando. 2009. Towards Building a Knowledge Base for Research on Andean Weaving. Paper presented at the 26th British National Conference on Databases, July, in Birmingham, UK.
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Birkbeck College |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Instituto de Lengua y Cultura Aymara |
| La Paz |
| Bolivia |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Luciana Martins; Dr Sven Helmer |
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| Author(s) of record | Sven Helmer |
| Title | Weaving communities of practice. Textiles, culture and identity in the Andes: a semiotic and ontological approach. |
| Record created | 2010-07-22 |
| Record updated | 2011-06-02 11:31 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3685 |
| Citation of record | Sven Helmer: Weaving communities of practice. Textiles, culture and identity in the Andes: a semiotic and ontological approach.. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3685> created: 2010-07-22, last updated 2011-06-02 11:31 |