TY - JOUR
KW - Digital divide
KW - Digitisation
KW - Luthuli Museum
KW - Multiple interpretations
KW - Ownership
KW - RRN
KW - Reciprocal Research Network
KW - Tangible vs. intangible heritage
KW - Virtual repatriation
AU - L.K. Gibson
AU - Hannah Turner
AB - This 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:.
BT - International Journal of the Inclusive Museum
DO - 10.18848/1835-2014/cgp/v04i01/44364
LA - English
M1 - 1
N1 - Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
N2 - This 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:.
PY - 2012
SP - 1
EP - 14
T2 - International Journal of the Inclusive Museum
TI - Facilitating inclusivity: The politics of access and digitisation in a South African and Canadian Museum
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84864623893&doi=10.18848%2f1835-2014%2fcgp%2fv04i01%2f44364&partnerID=40&md5=3ad8c8843b634fc0c2cddc1ecef6b479
VL - 4
SN - 18352014 (ISSN)
ER -