Making it FAIR: understanding the lockdown 'digital divide' and the implications for the development of UK digital infrastructures

使其公平：了解封锁“数字鸿沟”以及对英国数字基础设施发展的影响

• 批准号: AH/V015540/1
• 负责人: Julian Richards
• 金额: $ 12.2万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV015540%2F1
• 关键词: Making; FAIR; understanding; lockdown; digital

This proposal responds to challenges faced by smaller museums struggling to engage online with audiences during varying levels of lockdown, and beyond. Problems include: low levels of basic digital literacy; poor understanding of audiences (including those with specific access needs); uncertainty over how to transfer real-world interpretive practice to the digital realm; lack of guidance about technical solutions; barriers to future-proofing digital assets in line with the FAIR data principles (data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable); and shoestring budgets.The project will create a community of practice that will (through sector-wide dissemination) extend beyond the immediate participants to museums across the UK. The core cohort will receive training, mentoring and technical support to develop digital collections-focussed content to stay connected with existing audiences, and reach new audiences. Technical support will, as appropriate, pilot solutions (based on integration of existing tools) and demonstrate how a fully-developed infrastructure for cultural heritage data, when coupled with digital skills support, might benefit even the smallest museums, as well as well-resourced and digitally-savvy IROs. This community of practice will explore prototype solutions for user-group testing, that respond directly to emerging challenges, informing the TaNC discovery process. The study is action research with a cohort of staff and/or volunteers from small museums, who will create online content based on their collections. The methodology is built around the collaborative action research approach developed by Culture 24 over a number of previous projects but adapted for delivery online in a time of home-working and social distancing. The hallmarks of the approach are:Learning from others - including a variety of voices and perspectives from within and beyond the cultural sector, to inform, support, guide and reflect on the challenges at hand.Learning by doing - encouraging practical action research and supporting participants to experiment in the context of their everyday work, testing out hunches developed through collaborative discussions.Learning together - creating a community of supportive peers with a shared sense of purpose, turning them into invaluable sources of understanding for the wider cultural heritage sector.As well as the core collaborative action research, the study will include a socio-technical challenge: as the participants encounter difficulties along the way, the project team will respond where possible and prototype simple tools that demonstrate how a fully developed infrastructure might support even - perhaps especially - the smallest and least resourced museums.This project will engage with six to eight smaller museums who have been navigating these challenges, reporting back to the wider museum sector, and helping others during the what for some have been make-or-break months. Through critical evaluation of current practice in microcosm through online workshops, and a technical gap analysis, the project will draw scalable lessons to inform Towards a National Collection's (TaNC) discovery phase, and AHRC's infrastructure planning.

该提案应对了小型博物馆在不同程度的封锁期间及之后难以与观众在线互动所面临的挑战。问题包括： 基本数字素养水平低；对受众（包括有特定访问需求的受众）了解不足；如何将现实世界的解释实践转移到数字领域的不确定性；缺乏技术解决方案指导；符合公平数据原则（数据应可查找、可访问、可互操作和可重用）的面向未来的数字资产的障碍；该项目将创建一个实践社区，该社区将（通过全部门传播）扩展到英国各地的博物馆的直接参与者。核心团队将接受培训、指导和技术支持，以开发以数字馆藏为中心的内容，与现有受众保持联系，并吸引新受众。技术支持将酌情提供试点解决方案（基于现有工具的集成），并展示成熟的文化遗产数据基础设施与数字技能支持相结合，如何使最小的博物馆以及资源丰富且精通数字技术的 IRO 受益。该实践社区将探索用于用户组测试的原型解决方案，直接应对新出现的挑战，为 TaNC 发现过程提供信息。这项研究是由来自小型博物馆的一群工作人员和/或志愿者进行的行动研究，他们将根据自己的藏品创建在线内容。该方法是围绕 Culture 24 在之前的多个项目中开发的协作行动研究方法构建的，但适合在家工作和保持社交距离的情况下在线交付。该方法的特点是：向他人学习 - 包括来自文化部门内外的各种声音和观点，以告知、支持、指导和反思当前的挑战。边做边学 - 鼓励实际行动研究并支持参与者在日常工作中进行实验，测试通过协作讨论形成的预感。共同学习 - 创建一个由具有共同目标感的支持性同伴组成的社区，将其变成宝贵的资源 除了核心合作行动研究之外，该研究还将包括一项社会技术挑战：当参与者在此过程中遇到困难时，项目团队将在可能的情况下做出回应，并制作简单的工具原型，以展示完全开发的基础设施如何支持甚至是——也许尤其是——最小和资源最少的博物馆。该项目将与六到八家较小的博物馆合作，他们一直在应对这些挑战，并报告 为更广泛的博物馆部门提供帮助，并在对一些人来说是成败攸关的几个月里帮助其他人。通过在线研讨会对当前微观实践的批判性评估和技术差距分析，该项目将吸取可扩展的经验教训，为国家收藏 (TaNC) 的发现阶段和 AHRC 的基础设施规划提供信息。

项目成果

Making it FAIR: understanding the lockdown 'digital divide' and the implications for the development of UK digital infrastructures: A Towards a National Collection COVID-19 Project Final Report

使其公平：了解封锁“数字鸿沟”以及对英国数字基础设施发展的影响：面向国家收集的 COVID-19 项目最终报告

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Richards, J.D.