Abstract
We look at relational processes of engagement, negotiation and articulation of digital heritage knowledge production. By looking at creative reuse and remix of digital cultural heritage we focus on how those processes manifest at the intersection of established cultural institutions and people outside of these institutions. Two experimental arrangements are described that seek to understand how Human-Computer Interaction and design interventions might contribute to new forms of heritage knowledge production and collective memory-making by mobilizing infrastructuring interventions to question knowledge production, politics and ownership. We conclude by proposing that HCI can contribute to infrastructuring for collective knowledge production by supporting arrangements that open access to digital cultural heritage, open heritage knowledge and its practices, and reimagine authorship and ownership of contributions to heritage.
Keywords
- Design
- Digital cultural heritage
- Heritage knowledge production
- Infrastructuring
- Remix
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Both interventions have been carried out as part of the Europeana Creative project https://pro.europeana.eu/project/europeana-creative-project.
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We refer here to the European copyright legislation and policies. When discussing works which the copyrights are expired, waived, or fall under the declaration of not-known-copyrights (orphan works) we apply the short-hand public domain (PD).
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We want to thank former colleagues from the Europeana Creative project and all participants that contributed to the experiments. Special thanks to Merete Sanderhoff and SMK for hosting the Mix it up! Exhibition; also to Neea and Kati’s work for inspiring these reflections. We acknowledge funding from the European Union grant number #325120 and the Academy of Finland grant number #34374270.
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Marttila, S., Botero, A. (2021). Infrastructuring for Collective Heritage Knowledge Production. In: Rauterberg, M. (eds) Culture and Computing. Design Thinking and Cultural Computing. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12795. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77431-8_6
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