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

共同管理东北是一个跨学科的项目，它将通过使用社交媒体和开放档案/数据的创新合作方法，开放“官方”博物馆和“非官方”共同创建的社区藏品和档案。该项目提供了一个变革性的教育环境，创造了来自艺术和人文、科学和医疗健康背景的公开许可和其他数据的丰富组合，将来自专业策展人的“权威博物馆”数据与来自更非正式环境的数据一起与社区合作汇编和发布。该项目利用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及其遗产和博物馆学术从业人员；数字研究所的计算机科学家为通过数字经济实现社会包容的重要项目做出了贡献；医学教育一直处于电子学习的前沿；以及教育和传播一直在试行一项‘Skype老年人’项目，该项目将有积极性、有技能的成年人与在校学生连接起来。外部合作伙伴包括Tyne&Wear档案和博物馆(东北地区主要的博物馆、画廊和档案服务机构)、Woodhorn(管理四个诺森伯兰博物馆和诺森伯兰档案馆)、Taylor&Francis集团(主要出版集团)、Wellcome Images(国家医学图像数据库)和School东北(代表东北地区的学校)。这一合作伙伴关系在社区参与方面拥有一系列专业知识：纽卡斯尔大学通过最近的Beacon东北大学及其教育学校，以及两个博物馆财团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、可持续性和社会复兴。联合策划东北地区在这三个方面都发挥了作用。它寻求社区的参与和赋权，特别是那些涉及少数族裔和其他难以接触到的群体的社区-这是社会复兴概念的核心-主要合作伙伴Tyne&Wear档案和博物馆(TWAM)和伍德霍恩已经在全国范围内认可了这些社区的记录。老龄化主题涉及一套与共同管理东北地区高度相关的代际优先事项，同时重要的是，该项目产生的关键资产的遗产，特别是数字数据集和学习资料包的范围，是可持续的。TWAM和伍德霍恩将通过他们的管理确保这一点，他们将通过定期的藏品管理政策将它们提供给未来几代研究人员。该项目将与大约20个不同的社区和学校团体合作，其中许多团体位于纽卡斯尔地区，但也有一些来自农村地区。他们将获得广泛的数字收藏品和档案，从大北方博物馆的异国民族志物品，到探索博物馆和伍德霍恩的科学和工业遗产，以及来自出版商Taylor&Francis的丰富图像。参与者将可以自由地策划自己的收藏：一些人可能希望专注于当地历史，可能是为了纪念第一次世界大战，或者可能是将今天的物品如何从特定的社会背景中获得文化价值的过程与18世纪的类似过程进行比较。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。该项目将帮助开发课程创新，并向社区团体(从青年考古学家到U3A)提供令人兴奋的服务。评估将通过以变革理论为基础的案例研究方法进行，这涉及与参与组织密切合作，帮助它们阐明自己的想法，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.