02035nas a2200265   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001900043653001700062653001900079653002900098653001400127653000800141653003200149653003700181653002500218100001600243700001800259245010900277856016600386300000900552490000600561520118200567022002001749                                       d10aDigital divide10aDigitisation10aLuthuli Museum10aMultiple interpretations10aOwnership10aRRN10aReciprocal Research Network10aTangible vs. intangible heritage10aVirtual repatriation1 aL.K. Gibson1 aHannah Turner00aFacilitating inclusivity: The politics of access and digitisation in a South African and Canadian Museum  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84864623893&doi=10.18848%2f1835-2014%2fcgp%2fv04i01%2f44364&partnerID=40&md5=3ad8c8843b634fc0c2cddc1ecef6b479  a1-140 v43 aThis paper draws on current themes of digitisation and access in two specific museum contexts-the Reciprocal Research Network in Vancouver, Canada and the Luthuli Museum in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. As museums and cultural heritage projects engage with new digital environments, issues around access for wider communities are raised. We ask what the possibilities of open access permitted by the digital world are, and how can ideas about open access through technology be complicated by existing power structures and geographical limitations in marginalised communities. This paper draws attention to the fact that when online access is implemented, other associated issues are raised. Open access databases and catalogues do not in themselves provide inherent access to knowledge since access to them is mediated by social, economic and historical circumstances. We frame this discussion specifically within issues of the digital divide and technological infrastructure, ownership issues in an open access environment, and the subsequent challenges concerning multiple interpretations. © Common Ground, Laura Kate Gibson, Hannah Turner, All Rights Reserved, Permissions:.  a18352014 (ISSN)