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27 Monday / October 27, 2014

Cultural Heritage Informatics–Getting There: Building an Online Research Community

10:00 am to 11:00 am
Herman B. Wells Library, Indiana University Bloomington
http://www.mathers.indiana.edu

Nicholas Jakobsen and Ryan Wallace, co-founders of Culture Code (culture.ca), a software consulting company specializing in the development of cultural and research-focused web applications, will discuss the Reciprocal Research Network (RRN). The RRN is an online research environment codeveloped by the Musqueam Indian Band, the Stó:lo Nation/Stó:lo Tribal Council, the U’mista Cultural Society, and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. It provides access to Northwest Coast items from 22 different partner institutions around the world, enabling geographically dispersed users and institutions including originating communities, academics and museum staff to carry out individual or collaborative cultural heritage research projects. Diverse user groups share their own perspectives and knowledge with the people and institutions that make up the RRN community. To date, almost 1,800 people have joined the RRN and collectively contributed over 3,000 discussions, projects, and pieces of shared knowledge. This vibrant community helped the RRN win the Gold Muse Award for Best Digital Community from the American Association of Museums in 2012. During development, the RRN team explored and tested methods to overcome challenges commonly faced by museums undertaking similar projects. Jakobsen and Wallace will discuss how the RRN is affecting research, why it is having this effect, and what course the development process followed. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Cultural Heritage Informatics lecture series, organized in conjunction with the joint Digital Infrastructure Planning for OVPR Cultural Heritage Collections project of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University. The lecture is free and open to the public and part of the Cultural Heritage Informatics lecture series, organized in conjunction with the joint Digital Infrastructure Planning for OVPR Cultural Heritage Collections project of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Indiana University.

Cost: Free

For more information contact:

Mathers Museum
(812)855-6873
[email protected]

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