Constructing, coding and curating digital archives
Academic symposium
CONSTRUCTING, CODING AND CURATING CROWDSOURCED ARCHIVES
March 9 2015, 9.00-13.00
Lokale: 27.0.17
Part of the activist archival event:
”WeCanEdit Copenhagen: Feminist Wikipedia edit-a-thon”
March 8-9 2015
Women make up an estimated 16% of Wikipedia editors worldwide. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content seems to be skewed by the lack of female participation. That means that while Wikipedia is essentially the most radically open encyclopaedia the world has ever seen, voices and perspectives are still being left out.
This symposium seeks to engage with, and respond to, the wide range of questions that the Wikipedia gender gap example provokes, from archival literacies and labour issues to archival power distribution and emancipatory potentials.
PROGRAMME
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9.00-9.15 |
Arrival and welcome Nanna Thylstrup and Kristin Veel, SAXO Department of History and Department of Arts and Culture, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
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9.15-10.00 |
Keynote speech Jonathan D. Katz, Visual Studies, Buffalo University |
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10.00-10.15 |
Coffee |
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10.15-11.00 |
Panel session 1: Neutral archives is an oxymoron Marianne Ping Huang, Arts, Aarhus University Mathias Danbolt, Department of Arts and Culture, University of Copenhagen Birgitte Possing, The State Archives |
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11.00-11.15 |
Coffee |
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11.15-12.15 |
Panel session 2: Codes, collaborative practices and means of regulations in crowdsourced digital archives Jens-Erik Mai, Department of Information Science, University of Copenhagen Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Institute for Human Rights Anders Søgaard, Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen |
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12.15-13.00 |
Keynote speech Joanna Zylinska and Sarah Kember, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London |
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13.00-15.00 |
Lunch |
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15.00-20.00 |
WeCanEdit edit-a-thon continued |
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Organized by the following research programmes:
”The Past’s Future: Digital Transformations and Cultural Heritage Institutions”, VELUX
“Uncertain Archives: Adapting Cultural Theories of the Archive to Understand the Risks and Potentials of Big Data”, YDUN