Hello all,
I’m currently doing some research on museums’ collection and use of visitors’ personal narratives (digital stories, oral history and the like), as I’m wondering if there is a point at which museums (and their staff) reach a kind of saturation point with such content.
By this I mean, museums are (I think rightly) committed to giving their broad constituencies a voice, but what happens to that ‘content’ as the online museum presence becomes more cluttered, or, in time, is 'tidied up'? I’m noticing some archives that used to be available online and that I’ve used previously are suddenly no longer accessible.
So, is there a point at which an institution reaches its limit in terms of what it can reasonably be expected to make accessible from such projects? And if so, what happens to that content thereafter? Are there countless hours of oral/audio-visual/and other contributions sat on servers, with no hope of seeing the light of day? As someone who has subscribed to this list for some years, I know there are people here who will have thoughts on this issue.
If you are in the business of creating/working with/looking after such archives (large or small), or have been in the past, I wonder if you might answer a few questions which I hope can go on to inform policy and ethics in this area in the future.
The questions can be accessed here http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BLWBXHF
Please let me know if you have any further thoughts or any queries about the work.
A huge thanks for reading, and for taking part.
Jenny Kidd
Dr. Jenny Kidd,
Lecturer in Digital Media, Participation and Cultural Industries
School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
Cardiff University
@jenkidd www.jennykidd.org
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