Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data

IF 2 1区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Chiara Zuanni
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ABSTRACT This paper explores how the framework of object biographies can be used to analyse our digital activities, both disseminating and expanding these same biographies. During the digitisation and cataloguing processes, biographies are not only – and in limited format – recorded, but are also expanded by the affordances of the digital medium. Similarly, digital interpretation and engagement programmes, and their reception by museum audiences contribute to the establishing of new relationships around the object and the emergence of new narratives. User-generated content is also a witness of contemporary interpretation and networks emerging from public interest in, and use of, cultural heritage objects. The case-study of the Victory of Samothrace, and its traces in the Louvre’s own digital offer and among audiences’ data is used to discuss the range of digital content surrounding an object. This paper argues that all these instances of an object in the digital sphere are worth studying as adding new chapters in its life-history, in an ever-changing scenario of both ephemeral and meaningful digital representations. The relationship between originals and this digital content is considered as multifaceted, documenting, mediating, and expanding the original object biography, but also enabling digital surrogates to develop their own independent biographies.
数字时代的对象传记:文档、生活史和数据
本文探讨了如何使用对象传记的框架来分析我们的数字活动,传播和扩展这些相同的传记。在数字化和编目过程中,传记不仅以有限的格式被记录下来,而且还通过数字媒体的功能得到扩展。同样,数字解释和参与项目,以及博物馆观众对它们的接受,有助于围绕物体建立新的关系,并产生新的叙事。用户生成的内容也见证了公众对文化遗产的兴趣和使用所产生的当代诠释和网络。萨莫色雷斯胜利的案例研究,以及它在卢浮宫自己的数字产品和观众数据中的痕迹,被用来讨论围绕一件物品的数字内容的范围。本文认为,数字领域中所有这些对象的实例都值得研究,因为它们在其生活史中添加了新的章节,在一个不断变化的场景中,既短暂又有意义的数字表示。原作和数字内容之间的关系被认为是多方面的,记录、中介和扩展了原作的对象传记,但也使数字代理人能够发展自己的独立传记。
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Heritage Studies ( IJHS ) is the interdisciplinary academic, refereed journal for scholars and practitioners with a common interest in heritage. The Journal encourages debate over the nature and meaning of heritage as well as its links to memory, identities and place. Articles may include issues emerging from Heritage Studies, Museum Studies, History, Tourism Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Memory Studies, Cultural Geography, Law, Cultural Studies, and Interpretation and Design.
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