'Digitised collections and the social museum: the (re)use of images of objects in the collections of the Science Museum Group'

“数字化藏品和社会博物馆：科学博物馆集团藏品中物体图像的（再）使用”

• 批准号: 2107283
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2107283
• 关键词: Digitised; collections; social; museum; re

The proposed research will focus on one particular kind of digital engagement, albeit a complex and multifaceted one: engagement through images. Two main sources of data will be used: photographs taken by visitors to the Science Museum Group (SMG) which are shared online; and digitised images made available online as part of the One Collection project and similarly shared. Visitor-generated photographs, arising from an in-gallery experience, will be compared with the ways in which users interact with images in the museum's online collections, analysing whether different kinds of digital engagement occur in solely digital spaces and contexts. The research will explore the factors that influence which objects visitors choose to photograph and which images they select from online collections; the forums within which these photographs and images are shared; the stories that people associate with the images (and the language that they use to tell those stories); and the afterlife of the images beyond first publication. The project is not limited to a single collection within the SMG, but rather is concerned with the Group's collections in their entirety, in keeping with the aims of One Collection. The SMG's collections are uniquely suitable for this research, as user engagement with individual objects is more likely to be filtered through personal connection/reminiscence than would be the case for the majority of memory institutions. Many of the objects on display relate to visitors' own lived experiences, or to those of an older family member ('I used to have one of those'). These personal relationships and stories will be key to exploring digital engagement.

拟议中的研究将专注于一种特殊的数字参与，尽管这是一种复杂和多方面的参与：通过图像进行参与。将使用两个主要的数据来源：科学博物馆组(SMG)参观者拍摄的在线共享的照片；作为One Collection项目的一部分在线提供的数字化图像，并以同样的方式共享。来自画廊内体验的参观者生成的照片将与用户与博物馆在线收藏品中的图像互动的方式进行比较，分析不同类型的数字参与是否仅发生在数字空间和背景中。这项研究将探索影响访问者选择拍摄哪些对象以及他们从在线收藏中选择哪些图像的因素；这些照片和图像在哪个论坛上共享；人们与这些图像联系在一起的故事(以及他们用来讲述这些故事的语言)；以及除了第一次发布之外，这些图像的来世。该项目并不局限于SMG内部的单一收藏，而是根据One Collection的目标，关注该集团的整体收藏。SMG的收藏特别适合这项研究，因为与大多数记忆机构相比，用户与个别物品的接触更有可能通过个人联系/回忆进行过滤。展出的许多物品都与参观者自己的生活经历有关，或者与年长的家庭成员的经历有关(我曾经有过这样的经历)。这些个人关系和故事将是探索数字参与的关键。