Has anyone considered what an online "community curator" may achieve?
I am currently preparing a thesis on online museums and user-generated
content, and I believe that there are many issues which user-generated
content may throw up. So far this fascinating thread has shown many
arguments for and against "community curators" and their roles within a
traditional, offline museum. Do people have any
fears/experiences/suggestions on how an musuem website may deal with the
authenticity and authority of user-generated content, and how a public's
perception of the museum may change?
Feel free to mail me directly.
Thanks,
David Salmon.
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>Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 06:59:00 GMT
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>Sorry, Chuck, but you did not hit the point. The proposal did not regard
>"oral history" of any kind. Of course, oral history can be included in
>any exhibition without museological objections.
>
>Christian
>
>
>"Chuck Watkins" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
>Marieke Van Damme wrote:
>
> >Hello-
> >I was just reading my latest issue of the Curator
> >Journal (p. 122) about the Brooklyn Museum of Art and
> >the National Museum of the American Indian having
> >"community curators", that is, "ordinary" museumgoers,
> >write the object labels in exhibits. Has anyone done
> >this with success/failure? Is there a place I can go
> >to learn more about it? I think it is a great concept
> >but I'd like to see who else has tried it.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Marieke
> >
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>When we were building the Appalachian Cultural Museum, we thought it
>important to deal with the subject of mountain blacks, a subject that
>had not been discussed before by museums about Appalachia to my
>knowledge. To that end, we identified a family, asked them to select
>objects and photographs and write interpretive text. There was a
>tradeoff. I am sure that some of what was written was family folklore
>rather than absolute fact. And some of the text was longish by museum
>standards. But the upside was that visitors got to hear the authentic
>voices of the people in the exhibit, people who had heretofore been
>ignored by museums.The public liked the exhibit and the family held a
>couple of annual reunions in the gallery. As my university is about to
>
>close the Appalachian Cultural Museum, none of this matters terribly
>now. But if you think about it, it wasn't too long ago that in museums,
>
>especially in museums of history, everyone - the curators, the
>collectors and the visitors - spoke with the same voice. So, letting a
>
>few more voices in doesn't seem like a bad thing, especially if they
>have something to say that is worth hearing.
>Regards,
>Chuck Watkins
>The Appalachian Cultural Museum
>Appalachian State University
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