Jelena Porsanger, the head of SVD, participated in a workshop about digitization of museums. It was a 2-day workshop with 15 leading scholars exploring museums, curation, digital culture, ethnography, and object histories.
The workshop is a result of a 4-year project called: Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse) funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The question at heart is, what is the relationship between the digital and the museum? AHRC asks this question to challenge the many ways museum collections and objects can be remade in new contexts.
The 2-day workshop takes place Thursday 19th – Friday 20th September at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh. The workshop has 15 leading scholars attending who are experts in their respective fields. These scholars will talk about their own experiences and knowledge during this workshop over the course of seven different panels. Jelena Porsanger will open the first panel.
The theme of Jelena Porsanger’s panel is Indigenous-led 3D digitization: ethics, culture reclamation and capacity building. She will present some results of SVD’s digitization work, focusing on 3D data management and sharing from the Indigenous perspective, ethical guidelines that RDM-SVD has developed, and about SVD’s 3D-digitization program in which technology is used in an extensive way, building capacity, and creating digital data for future culture reclamation, internal learning and display.
You can find more information about The Digital Museum Conference here.