Day 11: Monday, February 12 | Cultural Information Standards

Due:

• Please take a couple of minutes to fill out the Museum Visit Preference form.

Readings: 

• Ingrid Mason, “Cultural Information Standards—Political Territory and Rich Rewards,” in Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse, edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine, (Cambridge,  Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007), 223-243.

References from class:

• Deirdre C. Stam, “The Quest for a Code, or a Brief History of the Computerized Cataloging of Art Objects“, Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 1989 8:1, 7-15.
• Candace Greene, “Material Connections: “The Smithsonian Effect” in Anthropological Cataloguing.” Museum Anthropology, 2016 39: 147-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/muan.12121.
• Change the Subject film about the LCSH “illegal alien”
• Labels Matter, with Gaelan Smith

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Day 12: Wednesday, February 14 | Museum Collections
What stories do collections tell us?

Readings: 

•  Stephen E. Weil, “The Proper Business of the Museum: Ideas or Things?” or also available through the Internet Archive in Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations, (Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990), 43-56.
• “The Problem with Museums,” Origin of Everything, https://www.pbs.org/video/the-problem-with-museums-41mbgf/, 2020.

In class:

• Museum Collection Investigations

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Day 13: Friday, February 16 | WordPress site + Object labels

To Do:

• Please take a couple of minutes to fill out the 3D Scanning Dates/Times Preference Form.

Due: Object label due by class. You will learn how to upload your object label to WordPress during class.

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Featured image: Édouard Hue & Jérémy Kergourlay. University of Rennes, Charles Oberthür’s Lepidoptera collections – holarctic ecozone. Accessed January 5, 2021.