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Bridging Digital Art Practices with Institutional Archives: professional knowledge exchange on digital art archiving
AvoinGLAM (Finland) & LI-MA (Amsterdam) are organizing an expert meeting in October (16-17.10.2024) in Amsterdam, focused around the following question:
How can artists, curators, cultural producers with smaller cultural organizations connect to larger ecosystems of open heritage knowledge?
Digital art communities, festivals, and individual artists provide alternative practices for engaging with digital cultural heritage and commons initiatives. These examples illustrate effective practices in data modeling, metadata management, and database systems usage. However, connecting these practices to larger ecosystems of institutional (museum) archives, often raises significant challenges due to the centering of artists and artworks, rather than events and temporary communities of practice.
Open ecosystems, such as the Wikimedia projects, are renowned for high-quality reference and introductory materials. Despite this, emerging cultural practices frequently encounter obstacles within these environments particularly when inserting or connecting alternative methods to standardized systems. This expert meeting aims to address these issues by focusing on the role of linked open data in cultural production and the preparation of metadata for integration into larger archival systems.
Media Art History in Finland
In advance of the expert meeting on 17th October, the ambition is to make a public presentation will highlight the Media Art History in Finland (MEHI) project and its integration into open ecosystems, focusing on metadata, MediaWiki, and Wikidata. This presentation is part of the 2024 AvoinGLAM commemoration of the work of Minna Tarkka (1960–2023). The MEHI project is a significant effort by Finnish arts organizations over the past three years. MEHI aims to document and publish the history of Finnish media art and build robust information infrastructures for its documentation using Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons for open sharing. A key objective is to ensure the continued growth of media art knowledge on Wikidata by encouraging contributions from artists and cultural organizations. This work has already began here Media Art History.
Contact
If you are interested in this event please contact Agryfp
The event is coordinated by Andrew Gryf Paterson, together with Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM), in cooperation with Li-MA, with the support of Wikimedia Nederland.
More information about AvoinGLAM programme in 2024.
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