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

“重塑非洲的过去：利用博物馆收藏和数字故事来增加资源匮乏的观众的可及性和参与度”是美国和爱尔兰数字人文合作的资助机会之后提交给AHRC的一个项目。该项目旨在通过由剑桥大学和阿肯色大学领导的多合作伙伴、跨学科、行动研究的发展，为全球观众体验文化和遗产的方式开发新的方法。主要目标是培养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的数字领导能力和技能。该项目的重点是通过数字工具构建叙事，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：这是包容非洲声音的关键。它创建了一个对数字人文推广和教育感兴趣的研究人员的国际网络，包括来自英国的剑桥大学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，阿肯色大学先进空间技术中心（CAST）和芝加哥菲尔德博物馆；以及两个非洲合作伙伴，南非共和国夸祖鲁纳塔尔博物馆和肯尼亚内罗毕国家博物馆。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，但孤立地说，他们并不具备所需的所有技能。合作将解决在跨地缘政治边界和殖民历史的博物馆背景下出现的数字故事叙述的多个问题，甚至是收藏主题和教育目标的焦点差异。该项目将为探索前殖民时期非洲的知识提供数字工具和实例，供全球南北的博物馆专业人员和教师使用。

"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.