Museums, Big Data and the Violence of Empire

博物馆、大数据和帝国的暴力

• 批准号: 2752928
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2752928
• 关键词: Museums; Big; Data; Violence; Empire

This project is a collaboration between the University of Liverpool, Lancaster University, Liverpool John Moores University, and National Museums Liverpool (NML). It aims to generate new understandings of the nature and legacies of imperial and colonial violence through a deep interdisciplinary approach that embraces the use of digital humanities technologies in the curation of collections to help understand how imperial and colonial violence has been conceptualised and perpetuated through imperial and colonial collecting, curatorial decision-making, and museum display practices. Research questions include "What terminology can be used to identify acts or processes relating to imperial and colonial violence in museum databases, and what do these reveal about the ways in which the violence of empire was understood?"; "What can the classification and representation of objects in museums reveal about the nature of imperial and colonial violence and the role of museums in propagating such violence?" and "How can museums take an active role in the decolonisation of technology?".This project aims to develop new insights, research methods, standards, and protocols through which to explore the potential of digital humanities approaches to transform understandings of, and the interrelationships between, empire, violence, and the cultural heritage sector. Building on insights into the imperial and colonial archive, and museums, indigenous digitisation and a wide range of datasets, this project will also explore the potential of digital platforms to create spaces in which marginalised voices, including the origin communities of objects in cultural heritage collections, can challenge the Eurocentric frameworks through which such objects have been collected, curated and displayed, in addition to rethinking digital methodologies in the creation of data sets.

这个项目是利物浦大学、兰开斯特大学、利物浦约翰摩尔大学和国家博物馆利物浦（NML）之间的合作。它旨在通过深入的跨学科方法对帝国和殖民暴力的性质和遗产产生新的理解，该方法包括在收藏品策展中使用数字人文技术，以帮助了解帝国和殖民暴力是如何通过帝国和殖民收集，策展决策和博物馆展示实践被概念化和延续的。研究问题包括：“在博物馆数据库中，哪些术语可以用来识别与帝国和殖民地暴力有关的行为或过程，这些术语揭示了帝国暴力被理解的方式？";“博物馆中物品的分类和展示能揭示帝国和殖民暴力的性质以及博物馆在宣传这种暴力方面的作用吗？博物馆如何在技术的非殖民化中发挥积极作用？该项目旨在开发新的见解、研究方法、标准和协议，通过这些方法探索数字人文方法的潜力，以改变对帝国、暴力和文化遗产部门的理解及其相互关系。基于对帝国和殖民地档案馆、博物馆、土著数字化和广泛数据集的深入了解，该项目还将探索数字平台的潜力，以创造空间，让边缘化的声音，包括文化遗产藏品中物品的来源社区，可以挑战以欧洲为中心的框架，通过这些框架，这些物品被收集、策划和展示，除了重新思考创建数据集的数字方法之外。