Preserving Memory, Protecting Privacy: Challenges and Successes in Creating Meaningful Public Spaces in Digital Environments
Sarah Scarlett, Michigan Technological university
PROPOSAL TYPE
Roundtable
Seeking
- Seeking Additional Presenters
- Seeking General Feedback and Interest
- Seeking Specific Interest
RELATED TOPICS
- Digital
- Place
- Public Engagement
- Data/Information Management
ABSTRACT
Public historians using online digital or spatial platforms to engage communities with the shared histories of a particular space are encountering new ethical questions and elevated anxiety levels about privacy. Read More
Empowering Voices: Social and Community Centered Metadata
Jessica BrodeFrank, adler planetarium
PROPOSAL TYPE
Traditional Panel
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- Seeking Additional Presenters
RELATED TOPICS
- Data/Information Management
- Public engagement
ABSTRACT
As social-justice movements challenge power-structures, the ways in which public historians and cultural institutions create expert knowledge are also under scrutiny. Instead of using traditional top-down approaches to cataloguing, public historians and cultural institutions should be actively co-creating object metadata and research with the public. Read More