Co-curate North East: creating sustainable routes for North East communities to digitally transform and co-produce open cultural resources

“联合策展东北”是一个跨学科项目，将通过创新的合作方式，利用社交媒体和开放档案/数据，开放“官方”博物馆和“非官方”共同创建的社区收藏和档案。该项目提供了一个变革性的教育环境，创造了丰富的艺术、人文、科学和医疗卫生领域的公开许可和其他数据组合，将来自专业策展人的“权威博物馆”数据与来自非正式背景的数据放在一起，这些数据是与社区合作汇编和发布的。该项目借鉴了纽卡斯尔大学和各种外部合作伙伴的广泛专业知识。大学的捐款来自国际文化和遗产研究中心，其遗产和博物馆学术实践者，数字研究所，其计算机科学家为通过数字经济的社会包容的重要项目做出贡献，医学教育，一直处于电子学习的前沿，教育和交流，一直在试点“Skype老年人”项目，将积极的，熟练的成年人与学生联系起来。外部合作伙伴包括泰恩与威尔档案与博物馆（东北部领先的博物馆，画廊和档案服务），伍德霍恩（管理四个诺森伯兰博物馆和诺森伯兰档案馆），泰勒与弗朗西斯集团（主要出版集团），惠康图像（国家医学图像数据库）和学校东北（代表东北地区的学校）。该合作伙伴关系在社区参与方面具有一系列专业知识：纽卡斯尔大学（通过其最近的Beacon North East及其教育学院）和两个博物馆联盟都成功地开发了模型。纽卡斯尔大学确定了三个主要的社会挑战主题：老龄化、可持续性和社会更新。东北教区的副牧师在这三个方面都有表现。它寻求参与和赋予社区权力，特别是那些涉及少数民族和其他“难以接触”群体的社区——这是社会复兴概念的核心——主要合作伙伴泰恩&威尔档案和博物馆（TWAM）和伍德霍恩在这方面有全国公认的记录。老龄化主题涉及一系列与东北联合策展高度相关的代际优先事项，而重要的是，该项目产生的关键资产的遗产，特别是数字数据集和学习包的范围，是可持续的。这将通过TWAM和Woodhorn的管理来确保，他们将通过定期的收藏管理政策为后代的研究人员提供这些资料。该项目将与大约20个不同的社区和学校团体合作，其中许多位于纽卡斯尔地区，但有些来自农村地区。他们将可以访问广泛的数字收藏和档案，从大北方博物馆的异国民族志物品到发现博物馆和伍德霍恩的科学和工业遗产，以及出版商泰勒和弗朗西斯的丰富图像。参与者可以自由安排自己的藏品：有些人可能希望关注当地的历史，可能会参与第一次世界大战的百年纪念，或者可能会比较当今的物品如何从特定的社会背景中获得文化价值与18世纪的类似过程。这种方法满足了已经与该大学合作的当地东北学校联盟对基于探究和基于项目的学习的明确需求。该项目将有助于开发课程创新，并为社区团体（从青年考古学家到U3A）提供令人兴奋的服务。评估将通过基于变革理论的案例研究方法进行，该方法涉及与参与组织密切合作，帮助他们阐明自己的想法，并揭示理论与实践之间的矛盾。

Co-curate North East is a trans-disciplinary project that will open up 'official' museum and 'un-official' co-created community-based collections and archives through innovative collaborative approaches using social media and open archives/data. The project delivers a transformative educational environment creating a rich mix of openly licenced and other data from arts and humanities, science, and medical health contexts, placing 'authoritative museums' data from professional curators alongside data from more informal contexts compiled and published in collaboration with communities.The project draws on a wide range of expertise from Newcastle University and various external partners. University contributions come from the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, with its heritage and museums academic-practitioners, the Digital Institute, whose computer scientists contribute to an important project on Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy, Medical Education, which has been at the forefront of e-learning, and Education and Communication, which has been piloting a 'Skype Seniors' project connecting motivated, skilled adults with school students. External partners include Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (the leading museums, gallery and archive service in the North East), Woodhorn (which manages four Northumberland museums and the Northumberland Archives), Taylor & Francis Group (a major publishing group), Wellcome Images (a national database of medical sciences images) and Schools Northeast (representing schools in the north east region). The partnership has a range of expertise on community engagement: both Newcastle University, through its recent Beacon North East and its Education School, and the two museum consortia have successfully developed models. Newcastle University has identified three major Societal Challenge Themes: Ageing, Sustainability and Social Renewal. Co-curate North East plays into all three. It seeks to engage and empower communities, especially those involving ethnic minorities and other 'hard to reach' groups - something central to the concept of Social Renewal - for which key partners Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums (TWAM) and Woodhorn have nationally recognised track records. The Ageing theme involves a set of intergenerational priorities highly relevant to Co-curate North East, while it is important that the legacy of key assets generated by the project, particularly the range of digital datasets and learning packages, is sustainable. This will be ensured through their stewardship by TWAM and Woodhorn, who will make them available for future generations of researchers through their regular collections management policies.The project will work with around 20 different community and school groups, many of them based in the Newcastle region but some from rural settings. They will have access to a broad range of digital collections and archives, from the exotic ethnographic objects in the Great North Museum to the scientific and industrial heritage in Discovery Museum and Woodhorn and the wealth of images from publishers Taylor & Francis. Participants will be free to curate their own collections: some may wish to focus on local history, perhaps engaging with the centenary of World War 1 or maybe comparing how objects nowadays gain cultural value from a particular social context with a similar process in the 18th century.This approach meets an identified need for Enquiry Based and Project Based Learning within a consortium of local North East schools already working with the University. The project will help develop curriculum innovation and an exciting offer to community groups (from Young Archaeologists to U3A). Evaluation will be through a case-study methodology based on Theory of Change, which involves working closely with participant organisations to help them articulate their ideas and expose contradictions between theories and practice.