Reframing the African past:using museum collections and digital storytelling to increase accessibility for and participation by low-resource audiences

《重塑非洲过去：利用博物馆藏品和数字讲故事来增加低资源观众的可及性和参与度》是提交给AHRC的一个项目，该项目为美国和爱尔兰数字人文合作提供资金机会。该项目旨在通过开展由剑桥大学和阿肯色大学牵头、设在博物馆空间的多方合作、跨学科的行动研究，为全球观众体验文化和遗产的方式制定新的方法。主要目标是在通过数字技术教授和学习鲜为人知的非洲历史的教育工作者中培养数字领导力和技能。该项目的重点是建立叙事，通过使用数字工具促进非洲人民和机构的创新、灵活性和复原力，这些工具也可以在数字基础设施和能力有限的地方创建和访问：这是纳入非洲声音的关键。它创建了一个对数字人文推广和教育感兴趣的国际研究人员网络，其中包括来自英国的：剑桥大学的麦克唐纳研究所和剑桥考古与人类学博物馆；两个美国合作伙伴，即阿肯色大学的高级空间技术中心和芝加哥田野博物馆；以及两个非洲合作伙伴，南非共和国的夸祖鲁·纳塔尔博物馆和肯尼亚的内罗毕国家博物馆。研究人员网络由一个或多个相关领域(非洲考古学、博物馆学和博物馆教育、数字技术)的专家组成，但并不孤立地拥有所需的所有技能。合作将解决博物馆环境中数字故事讲述产生的多个问题，这些背景跨越地缘政治边界和殖民历史，甚至在收藏主题和教育目标的焦点上存在差异。该项目将产生探索殖民前非洲知识的数字工具和范例，全球北方和南方的博物馆专业人员和教师都可以使用这些工具和范例。

"Reframing the African past: using museum collections and digital storytelling to increase accessibility for and participation by low-resourced audiences" is a project submitted to the AHRC follow on funding opportunity for US and Ireland Digital Humanities Collaboration. The project seeks to develop new approaches to the ways in which culture and heritage are experienced by global audiences through the development of a multi-partner, interdisciplinary, action research, led by the Universities of Cambridge and Arkansas and situated in the museum space. The primary goal is to foster digital leadership and skills amongst educators that engage in the teaching and learning of lesser-known histories about the African past through digital technologies. The project focuses on building narratives that promote the innovation, flexibility, and resilience of African peoples and institutions through time using digital tools that can also be created and accessed in places where there is limited digital infrastructure and capabilities: key to the inclusion of African voices. It creates an international network of researchers interested in digital humanities outreach and education, including from the UK, with the McDonald Institute at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; two US partners, the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) from the University of Arkansas and the Field Museum Chicago; and two African partners, the KwaZulu Natal Museum, Republic of South Africa and the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya. The network of researchers is comprised by experts in one or more of areas involved (African archaeology, museology and museum education, digital technologies) but do not, in isolation, possess all the skills needed. Collaboration will address multiple questions that arise with digital storytelling in museum contexts that cross-cut geopolitical boundaries and colonial histories, and even variances in the foci of collection topics and educational goals. The project will result in digital tools and examples for the exploration of knowledge about pre-colonial Africa that is deployable by museum professionals and teachers located in both the Global North and South.