Data Artifacts Rising: Cultures of Collecting from Preservation to Participation
metaLAB (at) Harvard 2012-12-08
Summary:
The Internet inspires libraries, archives, museums, and arboreta to make their collections “open,” “participatory,” and “democratic.” This cluster of intellectual values, emergent in networked cultures, is taking hold at institutions that carry long legacies of prior norms: preservation, expertise, comprehensiveness, … Continue reading →