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Virtual Repatriation and the Application Programming Interface: From the Smithsonian Institution's MacFarlane Collection to ‘Inuvialuit Living History’

Kate_Hennessy — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:51:01 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

Virtual Repatriation and the Application Programming Interface: From the Smithsonian Institution’s MacFarlane Collection to “Inuvialuit Living History”

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virtual repatriation

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Inuvialuit

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APIs

Abstract:

Digitization is providing heritage institutions with a range of possibilities for sharing curatorial and ethnographic authority with originating communities. More than creating access to collections, institutional practices of making digital collections public have opened spaces for virtual repatriation and the production of alternative representations of tangible and intangible cultural knowledge. In 2009, a delegation of Inuvialuit elders, youth, cultural workers, and media producers traveled with anthropologists to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History to view and document the MacFarlane Collection, the most significant collection of Inuvialuit material culture. In the months after the visit, the group worked with Smithsonian curators and developers of the Reciprocal Research Network (RRN) (http://www.rrnpilot.org) to make the MacFarlane Collection’s digital records available for the Inuvialuit production of a virtual exhibit. The exhibit producers leveraged the RRN’s API (Application Programming Interface) to remediate publicly available institutional data as a virtual repatriation of the collection. “Inuvialuit Living History” demonstrates ongoing connections between the MacFarlane Collection and contemporary Inuvialuit knowledge and cultural practice. In the process, new questions are raised about histories of ownership, the possibility of repatriation, and opportunities and challenges associated with the virtual repatriation of cultural heritage.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Connecting to Data

Site:

http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca

Authors:

Kate Hennessy

Nicholas Jakobsen

Ryan Wallace

Charles Arnold

Using eHive Collection Management System to create custom sites and applications

paulrowe — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:42:44 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

small museums

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Wordpress

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Websites

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APIs

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collection management

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Software as a Service

Abstract:

This briefing showcases eHive's new programming interface and easy to use Wordpress plug-ins. These allow individual collectors and cultural heritage organisations to build their own custom sites and applications on top of eHive's data storage platform.

eHive is a web-based collections management system. It is available as software as a service, with Vernon Systems managing the hardware and software while the collecting organisation concentrates on their core activities.

As well as offering core cataloging and collection management functions, eHive includes options to publish all or a selection of the records and images from a collection. The new programming interfaces extend this further, offering simple ways to publish the content elsewhere on the web. eHive has built-in support for a range of licences per image, including Creative Commons.

This briefing shows examples of the API and Wordpress plug-ins in use and outlines future plans.

Type:

Exhibitor Briefing - discuss your product. Confirmed Exhibitors only

Using eHive Collection Management System

Site:

http://ehive.com

Authors:

Paul Rowe

Connecting the Collection: From Physical Archives to Augmented Reality in the Netherlands Architecture Institute

biblio — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:10:44 +0000

Lemmens, P., & Vanstappen H. (2010). Connecting the Collection: From Physical Archives to Augmented Reality in the Netherlands Architecture Institute. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web.