Tools and technology to support rich community heritage

This paper explores ways in which scholarly skill and expertise might be embodied in tools and sustainable practices that enable communities to create and manage their own digital archives. We focus particularly on tools and practices related to the recording and annotation of digitised materials. The paper is based on co-production practice in two very different kinds of community. Although the communities are different we find that tools designed specifically for one are valuable for others, thus offering the promise of general tools to support community-centred digitisation and potentially also traditional archival practice.

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Alan Dix

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Publication date: July 2022

Publication date (Print): July 2022

Pages: 1-10

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[0001]Computational Foundry

Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK

www.alandix.com

[0002]Swansea University, UK

[0003]Troedrhiwfuwch Community, UK

whereweare.org/troedrhiwfuwch

[0004]University of York, UK

[0005]British Library UK

[0006]University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, USA

intermuse.datatodata.org

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2022.2

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Conference name: 35th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI2022

Conference number: 35

Conference location: Keele, Staffordshire

Conference date: July 11th to 13th, 2022

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Towards a Human-Centred Digital Society

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[1] Armstrong, C., R. Cowgill, A. Dix, C. Bashford, J. S. Downie, M. Twidale, M. Reagan, and R. Ridgewell (2021). Towards a foundation for collaborative digital archiving with local concertgiving organisations. In 8th Intl Conf. on Digital Libraries for Musicology, pp. 41–49.

[2] Beel, D., C. Wallace, G. Webster, H. Nguyen, E. Tait, M. Macleod, and C. Mellish (2017). Cultural resilience: The production of rural community heritage, digital archives and the role of volunteers. Journal of rural studies 54, 459–468.

[3] Brown, J. D. and S. S. Stratton (1897). British musical biography: a dictionary of musical artists, authors, and composers born in Britain and its colonies. SS Stratton. Digital version 2016. http://datatodata.org/in-concert/BMB/.

[4] Craig, G. and M. Mayo (2011). The community development reader: History, themes and issues. Policy Press.

[5] Crow, G. and A. Mah (2012, 3). Conceptualisations and meanings of ‘community’: the theory and operationalization of a contested concept. Technical report, University of Southampton and University of Warwick. Report to the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

[6] Dix, A. (2010). Human–computer interaction: A stable discipline, a nascent science, and the growth of the long tail. Interacting with computers 22(1), 13–27.

[7] Dix, A., R. Cowgill, C. Bashford, S. McVeigh, and R. Ridgewell (2014). Authority and judgement in the digital archive. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology, pp. 1–8.

[8] Dix, A., A. Malizia, T. Turchi, S. Gill, G. Loudon, R. Morris, A. Chamberlain, and A. Bellucci (2016). Rich digital collaborations in a small rural community. In Collaboration Meets Interactive Spaces, pp. 463–483. Springer.

[9] Hoyle, V. (2022). The Remaking of Archival Values. Routledge.

[10] Lambert, D. and M. Frisch (2019). Digital curation through information cartography: A commentary on oral history in the digital age from a content management point of view. The oral history review 40(1), 135–153.

[11] Lave, J. and E. Wenger (1991). Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge University Press.

[12] Razak, F. H. A. (2008, 2). Single Person Study: Methodological Issues. Ph. D. thesis, Computing Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

[13] Robertson, B. (2021). Lace version 0.5 new features (draft of 2019-12-21). Technical report, Mount Allison University. https://tinyurl.com/5fjb6jmw.

[14] Sharpless, R. (2008). The history of oral history. In R. S. Thomas L Charlton, Lois E Myers (Ed.), Thinking about Oral History. Theories and Applications, red, pp. 7–32. Altamira Press.

[15] Social Care Institute for Excellence (2015, October). Co-production in social care: What it is and how to do it. https://tinyurl.com/5c9et5wz.

[16] Studdert, D. and V. Walkerdine (2016). Being in community: Re-visioning sociology. The Sociological Review 64(4), 613–621.

[17] Taylor, N. and K. Cheverst (2009, December). Social interaction around a rural community photo display. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 67(12), 1037–1047.

[18] The Oral History Society (2022). The history of oral history. https://www.ohs.org.uk/about-2/. Accessed: 2022-02-07.

[19] Vayanou, M., A. Katifori, A. Chrysanthi, and A. Antoniou (2020). Cultural heritage and social experiences in the times of covid 19. In AVI ² CH@ AVI.

[20] Walkerdine, V. and D. Studdert (2012). Concepts and meanings of community in the social sciences.

[21] Wenger, E. (1999). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge University Press.

[22] Willmott, P. (1986). Social networks, informal care and public policy. Research Report 655. Policy Studies Institute.

[23] Wilson, J. M. (1882). The Gazetteer of Scotland. Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston. Digital version 2020. https://alandix.com/gzs1882/.

[24] Zembrzycki, S. (2013). Bringing stories to life: using new media to disseminate and critically engage with oral history interviews. Oral History 41(1), 98–107.

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