[Seminar Series] A Digital Repertory of Colonial Plunder
This session is an introduction to core issues that arise when encoding looted African cultural heritage and histories of colonial spoliation on digital data platforms. With three exemplary cases developed by the Wikidata project “The Restitution of Knowledge: A Digital Repertory of Colonial Plunder“, the participants will get familiar with object-centered, agent-centered and event-centered approaches to digital provenance. They will be invited to examine the ethical issues linked to one-to-one transfers of museum databases to online platforms, and to reflect of possible solutions to provide a plurality of perspectives (including oral historical records) in referencing the provenance or context of acquisition of African cultural heritage.
Speaker: Dr. Yann LeGall (Technical University Berlin)
Language: English