through a glass, darkly – reflections upon digitisation
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@SimonTanner
Through a glass, darkly –Reflections upon digitisation
Simon Tanner
Department of
Digital Humanities,
King’s College London
Image: cvma.ac.uk
06/02/2015 12:18 ENC Public Talk 19 February 2013 1
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Digital Humanities:
the application of digital technology to humanities disciplines
reflection upon the impact of digital media upon humanity
> 50 academics & researchers
~ £2.5 million research income per annum
>5 million digital objects, 130+projects
200+million hits over 5 years: 2009-2013
www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/
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Why not go where they are?
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cvma.ac.uk
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cvma.ac.uk
Beverley Minster in Yorkshire
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cvma.ac.uk
Blisland: Sts Protus and Hyacinth, Cornwall
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cvma.ac.uk
Beverley Minster in Yorkshire
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The purpose of digitisation:
to educate, enlighten & entertain
Memory organisations are where a
community nourishes its
memory, imagination & creativity.
Where it connects with the past
& invents its future.
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Curation Challenges & Unfunded Mandates
Digitisation
Web Archiving
Collection Development
Material heritage
Intellectual
heritage
Digital Preservation
Virtual
heritage
Web 2.0 /
Interactive heritage
Born digital
Preservation
&
Conservation
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www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
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“Old Bailey Online reaches out to communities, such as family
historians, who are keen to find a personal history, reflected in a
national story... Digital resources both create a new audience, and
reconfigure our analysis to favour the individual.”
Professor Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire
“Digitised resources allow me to discover the hidden lives of
disabled people, who have not traditionally left records of their
lives. I have found disability was discussed by many writers in the
Eighteenth Century and that disabled men and women played
an important role in the social life of the time.”
Dr David Turner, Swansea University
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
New areas of research enabled
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Effective, efficient and world leading
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
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Bringing
collections out
of the dark
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f. 23 detail
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Digitising the Dead Sea Scrolls
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http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/when-crowdsourcing-was-called.html
Telecrofting - a tale of PuffinsShetland Isles Museum and Archives
http://photos.shetland-museum.org.uk/
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A Digital Death Spiral?
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“digitisation = funding”
“Digital is everything today”
“who knows how much
it’ll cost, but digital’s
bound to be wonderful”
“Planning is so 20th Century, let’s be Agile”
“cos our competition / Google / my mate is doing it”
“cos if we build it, they will come!”
Signs you are in the Digital Death Spiral
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@SimonTanner
Through a glass, darkly –Reflections upon digitisation
Simon Tanner
Department of
Digital Humanities,
King’s College London
Image: cvma.ac.uk
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@SimonTanner@SimonTanner
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/us-art.html
Charging Models & Rights Strategy for Images in Museums
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@SimonTanner@SimonTanner
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
Inspiring Research, Inspiring Scholarship
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@SimonTanner@SimonTanner
www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html
The Balanced Value Impact Model