Bilder för alla? : En studie i hur ABM-institutioner digitaliserar sina äldre fotografiska samlingar
(2014) ABMM34 20141Division of ALM, Digital Cultures and Publishing Studies
- Abstract
- The purpose of my thesis is to study how different cultural heritage institutions digitize their historical picture collections. Many of these collections contain thousands or even hundreds of thousands of photos and it can be a great strain on any institution´s resources to digitize them. I wanted to see if they use any kind of standard and if not - would a national standard be a help or a hindrance? Also I wondered what principles were behind the selection of photos chosen for digitizing and for what users it was done.
I interviewed informants from a library, a museum and an archive about their reasons to digitize their photographic collections. All of them claimed that the main reason for this task was to make the photographs... (More) - The purpose of my thesis is to study how different cultural heritage institutions digitize their historical picture collections. Many of these collections contain thousands or even hundreds of thousands of photos and it can be a great strain on any institution´s resources to digitize them. I wanted to see if they use any kind of standard and if not - would a national standard be a help or a hindrance? Also I wondered what principles were behind the selection of photos chosen for digitizing and for what users it was done.
I interviewed informants from a library, a museum and an archive about their reasons to digitize their photographic collections. All of them claimed that the main reason for this task was to make the photographs available. However, they didn´t seem to have planned for whom they were making the photos available or even have formulated criteria for what photos to include.
Theoretically I leaned on Terry Cook´s essay about how archival science has shifted through four phases or paradigms. We have now entered the fourth paradigm, where archives are digital community archives and the archivist has been transformed to community facilitator. I consider that the meaning of this is that archives ought to be available on the Internet and that the archivist´s role is to help citizens to use the archives and to contribute to them.
After studying the three institutions, I came to the conclusion that even though the photographic collections are now published on the net, they cannot be said to be easily available as they are hard to find for the average user. Furthermore, I found there is a discrepancy between the key words used by the institutions and the users, thereby making the collections even more inaccessible. (Less)
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- author
- Eringsmark, Ann-Louise LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Pictures for all? : A study of how ALM institutions digitize their historical photographic collections
- course
- ABMM34 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- digitalisering, bildsamlingar, fotografier, standards. Arkivvetenskap, digital cultural heritage, accessibility, digitization, Archival studies, photographic collections, tillgänglighet, kulturarv, standarder
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4451566
- date added to LUP
- 2014-06-16 14:31:19
- date last changed
- 2014-06-17 16:36:08
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abstract = {{The purpose of my thesis is to study how different cultural heritage institutions digitize their historical picture collections. Many of these collections contain thousands or even hundreds of thousands of photos and it can be a great strain on any institution´s resources to digitize them. I wanted to see if they use any kind of standard and if not - would a national standard be a help or a hindrance? Also I wondered what principles were behind the selection of photos chosen for digitizing and for what users it was done.
I interviewed informants from a library, a museum and an archive about their reasons to digitize their photographic collections. All of them claimed that the main reason for this task was to make the photographs available. However, they didn´t seem to have planned for whom they were making the photos available or even have formulated criteria for what photos to include.
Theoretically I leaned on Terry Cook´s essay about how archival science has shifted through four phases or paradigms. We have now entered the fourth paradigm, where archives are digital community archives and the archivist has been transformed to community facilitator. I consider that the meaning of this is that archives ought to be available on the Internet and that the archivist´s role is to help citizens to use the archives and to contribute to them.
After studying the three institutions, I came to the conclusion that even though the photographic collections are now published on the net, they cannot be said to be easily available as they are hard to find for the average user. Furthermore, I found there is a discrepancy between the key words used by the institutions and the users, thereby making the collections even more inaccessible.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Bilder för alla? : En studie i hur ABM-institutioner digitaliserar sina äldre fotografiska samlingar}},
year = {{2014}},
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