This master thesis aims to analyse the data curation situation and the decision-making processes of the archivists at the Swedish Peace Archives. With the theories in data curation and methodology in analysing both accessible web content and interviews, this thesis hopes to shed light on the institutional perspective in managing digital archives. By studying and analysing the empirical materials from the online archive websites and the database, the data curation theories are applied to locate the archive practices at different levels. The method in collecting qualitative data from interviews with the archivists gives insight into archive works and digitisation processes in the digital archives today.  The results show the complexity in data management from digitisation to curation, and digital archives as an information-intensive digital environment has caused the merge of humanities and archives scholarship. This shows the limitation in the data-centric digital humanities frameworks when discussing archive management and technical interoperability. A further study with more focus on individual institutions with their unique workflows, stakeholders, and material types in mind is therefore suggested.

Contemporary art spaces are typically structured in accordance with a visual paradigm. However, sound has the capacity to leak into other spaces and does not conform to visual logics. Still, sounding artworks are frequently presented in these spaces. Thus, the aim of this thesis is to examine the effects of leaking sounding works within art spaces with an emphasis on the sensory experience of sound, and to further the understanding of how this can be operationalised curatorially. The research is focused on these questions: How is sound operating to produce experiential effects in the respective exhibition situations? What are the transformative potentials of sounding works in art spaces? What are the curatorial implications of these effects? The study investigates two cases, the exhibitions Mother Courage and Her Children (2022) and Undamming Rivers (2022) that both provide examples of the interactions of sounding works in contemporary art spaces. The material is gathered through observation and analysed using the theory of performativity. The analysis defines a set of terms that describe different experiences of sounding works in the art spaces. Furthermore, these effects are shown to operate transformatively on the art event as aspects of a contemporaneous production and reception of the art. The concluding discussion elaborates on the curatorial implications of these terms in the curation of sounding works to show how sonic leakage facilitates definition of space, movement through space, and a layering of experience.

This study examines the role of social media in maintaining interest in classic cinema in today’s media culture. Ethnographic analyses and case studies were performed within a robust classic cinema fan network on the social media blogging site Tumblr. The practices of these bloggers and their online platform are framed against the traditional structure of the curator and museum, indicating that they serve many of the cultural functions attributed to these institutions. This study further demonstrates that these Tumblr networks serve as a resource for young people to discover, share, and create communities relating to classic cinema. Due to the networking capabilities of Tumblr’s youth-oriented platform, these fan activities reach a broad range of individuals, exposing them to scenes and actors from classic cinema, stimulating interest in and acceptance of the cinematic framework of classic films. This content visibility and distribution potentially draws those outside the community into the extant fan network. These communities and practices represent previously unexplored methods by which classic cinema appreciation may develop and thrive within the fast-paced media culture of the 21st century. / text

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:44:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabiola Batistin.pdf: 2665857 bytes, checksum: 5f0b4530d5ea6488db5184ff8dc44317 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-17 / Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie / This paper have started from the research collection of the art critic, poet, psychoanalyst, teacher and collector Theon Spanudis and its safeguard upheld on two institutions: Museum of Contemporary Art - MAC/USP and Brazilian Studies Institute - IEB / USP. The collection consisting of 453 frames was partially donated to the MAC / USP in 1979 and concluded only after the death of Spanudis in 1986. The Fund Theon Spanudis of IEB / USP was created with the aim of cataloging the donated literary material (poetry books, manuscripts, texts, exhibition catalogs) for further public consultation. The wealth of material, an unprecedented documentary and little explored in their study resulted in a didactic split into three research areas (the transcendence of art, the artists and brands poetic didactic bias of the collection ) in order to better understand Theon Spanudis collection. The museum education boosted the composition and purpose of a curatorial project uniting the many actions of Theon as a critic, poet and collector. Thus, artists within the collection, poems, excerpts from letters and manuscripts, in order to think of the use of part of the collection as a base material for educational activities inside and outside the art museums were selected: one three-dimensional casts a Poem broad horizon to so many other collections that may incur in the same poetic way. / O presente trabalho partiu da investigação da coleção do crítico de arte, poeta, psicanalista, professor e colecionador Theon Spanudis e de sua salvaguarda acolhida sobre duas instituições: Museu de Arte contemporânea MAC/USP e o Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros IEB/USP. A coleção, composta de 453 quadros, foi doada parcialmente no MAC/USP em 1979 e somente concluída após a morte de Spanudis em 1986. O Fundo de Acervo Theon Spanudis no IEB/USP, foi criado com o intuito de catalogação do material literário doado (livros de poesia, manuscritos, textos, catálogos de exposição) para posterior consulta pública. A riqueza do material, um corpus documental inédito e pouco explorado em seu estudo deram origem a uma separação didática em três eixos de investigação (a transcendência da arte, as marcas poéticas do artistas e o viés didático da coleção) com a finalidade de melhor compreender a Coleção Theon Spanudis. A educação museal impulsionou a composição e a proposta de um projeto curatorial unindo as muitas ações de Theon como crítico, mecenas, poeta, colecionador. Assim, foram selecionados artistas dentro da coleção, poemas, trechos de cartas e de textos manuscritos, com o intuito de pensar o uso de parte da coleção como material de base para ações educativas dentro e fora dos museus de arte: um Poema Tridimensional lança um horizonte amplo a tantas outras coleções que possam incorrer num mesmo caminho poético.

The re-curated Canadian History Hall (CHH) opened at the Canadian Museum of History (CMH) in Gatineau, Québec, on July 1st, 2017, becoming the first Canadian national narrative to exhibit the history, experiences, and aftermath of Canada’s genocidal Indian Residential School (IRS) system. Through interviews and participant observation, this case study considers experiences of CHH curatorial engagements between Alberni IRS Survivors and museum professionals. Their experiences illustrate practical challenges, structural limitations, and complementary interests of Western museums and Indigenous source communities attempting to collaboratively curate difficult history. Despite having limited capacities for indigenization or decolonization, this thesis demonstrates that museums like the CMH can be complicated but beneficial partners for some Indigenous source communities and their anti-colonial engagements with Canadian society. / Graduate

Submitted by Anahi Rocha Silva null (anahiadv@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-06-06T12:46:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Anahi Rocha Silva Mestrado.pdf: 3897496 bytes, checksum: 6873752911e288f712bb71733d31bdb6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-06-06T20:34:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_ar_me_mar.pdf: 3897496 bytes, checksum: 6873752911e288f712bb71733d31bdb6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-06T20:34:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_ar_me_mar.pdf: 3897496 bytes, checksum: 6873752911e288f712bb71733d31bdb6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O Sistema Nacional de Informações e Indicadores Cultural (SNIIC) é uma plataforma digital criada pelo governo federal como instrumento para o Plano Nacional de Cultura, com o objetivo de mapear e agregar, em base de dados única, informações referentes à cultura brasileira. Trata-se de um ambiente dinâmico de informações que reúne características de sistema complexo, convergente, híbrido, e que apresenta grandes desafios para sua implementação e execução. Nesse sentido nos propomos a analisar o SNIIC sob as perspectivas da Ciência da Informação e do Design da Informação, estabelecendo como objetivo geral identificar recursos e subsídios que ampliem as possibilidades de acesso, compartilhamento e apropriação da informação. A pesquisa é classificada como bibliográfica, exploratória, teórico-aplicada, uma vez que se dá a partir de um levantamento bibliográfico com intuito de conhecer e contextualizar os sistemas de informações e indicadores culturais e assim delinear o problema; é exploratória porque tem a própria plataforma como objeto para coleta dos dados, estudo e análise; teórico-aplicada, pois visa estabelecimento de um produto/serviço para melhorar o sistema de busca e recuperação da informação. Os resultados da análise confirmaram o grande potencial da plataforma, mas revelaram algumas dificuldades, tais como: deficiências na produção documental e no sistema de busca e recuperação da informação. O primeiro problema apontado pode ser corrigido com a adoção política arquivística e curadoria digital, com métodos e procedimentos relacionados ao tratamento de documentos arquivísticos eletrônicos que corrijam estas deficiências na produção documental; já com relação ao segundo, indicamos a aplicação prática de um tesauro sobre convertido no modelo Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) em padrão Resouce Description Framework (RDF), com vistas à organização, recuperação e interoperabilidade entre diferentes sistemas de informação e Web Semântica, permitindo que o usuário realize consultas utilizando seu vocabulário de comum uso, provendo assim uma maior acessibilidade às informações mantidas pelo SNIIC. / The National System of Information and Cultural Indicators (SNIIC) is a digital platform created by the federal government as a tool for the National Culture Plan, with the aim to map and aggregate in a single database, information related to Brazilian culture. It is a dynamic environment information that meets complex system characteristics, convergent, hybrid, and that presents great challenges for its implementation and enforcement. In this sense we propose to analyze the SNIIC from the perspectives of Information Science and Information Design establishing the general objective of identifying resources and subsidies that increase the possibilities of access, sharing and appropriation of information. The research is classified as literature, exploratory, theoretical and applied, since it starts from a literature survey in order to understand and contextualize the information systems and cultural indicators and thus outlining the problem; It is exploratory because it has the platform itself as an object for data collection, research and analysis; theoretical and applied, it aims to establish a product / service to improve the system of search and information retrieval. The test results confirmed the great potential of the platform, but had some problems, such as deficiencies in documentary production and search and information retrieval system. The first pointed problem can be fixed with archival policy adoption and digital curation, with methods and procedures related to the processing of electronic archival documents to correct these deficiencies in document production; already with respect to the second, indicate the practical application of a thesaurus on converted the model Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) standard Resouce Description Framework (RDF), with a view to the organization, retrieval and interoperability between different information and Semantic Web systems, allowing the user to perform queries using their vocabulary in common use, thus providing greater accessibility to information maintained by SNIIC.

Submitted by Priscilla Araujo (priscilla@ibict.br) on 2016-08-11T17:14:13Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) LUANA SALES D.pdf: 6728909 bytes, checksum: 2eadee7606fac1789263665564c63b8d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-11T17:14:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) LUANA SALES D.pdf: 6728909 bytes, checksum: 2eadee7606fac1789263665564c63b8d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-23 / Esta pesquisa se desenrola sob as condições de um paradigma científico emergente, conhecido como e-Science ou 4º Paradigma Científico. Essa nova forma de fazer ciência se distingue pelo uso intensivo de redes de computadores, repositórios digitais distribuídos e pela geração extraordinária de dados de pesquisa, que é uma consequência do uso determinante de tecnologias de informação e de simulação por software do avanço da instrumentação científica. O ambiente informacional que se configura como consequência dessas transformações impacta sensivelmente os padrões de comunicação científica, principalmente no que tange às pesquisas cooperativas, ao compartilhamento e reuso de recursos informacionais e às formas de comunicar e de disseminar os resultados de pesquisa. Para contextualizar o seu campo de estudo, a tese contribui para delinear conceitos novos e renovados para a Ciência da Informação como e-Science, curadoria de dados de pesquisa, objetos digitais complexos, repositório de dados, CRIS (Current Research Information System) e outras infraestruturas essenciais para a gestão da pesquisa e das novas concepções de publicações acadêmicas e científicas. A pesquisa esta alicerçada sobre duas premissas: a primeira levanta a necessidade de um modelo de publicação científica que possa expressar e refletir o novo padrão de geração de conhecimento científico rico em dados, sendo capaz de integrar esses dados às publicações; a segunda preconiza que isso possa ser realizado segundo as possibilidades tecnológicas e os padrões decorrentes da Web Semântica. Essas duas premissas corporificam a formulação dahipótese colocada pela presente tese: uma publicação científica pode ser enriquecida e estar mais próxima às novas formas de geração de conhecimento da ciência contemporânea se estiver configurada segundo um modelo que vincule por meio de relações semânticas os dados e conjuntos de dados de pesquisa à publicação convencional. O método utilizado foi o dedutivo, partindo de conceitos gerais da Ciência da Informação aplicados à especificidade das Ciências Nucleares. Isto foi realizado de duas formas: por meio de levantamento bibliográfico, para fins de análise e interpretação qualitativa dos conceitos gerais, e por meio da abordagem de análise de domínio que permitiu analisar empiricamente a área de aplicação específica. Como resultado final obteve-se uma proposta de diretrizes para uma política nacional de curadoria digital e um modelo de publicação científica para a área de Ciências Nucleares, em que os dados são ligados às publicações acadêmicas por meio de relações semânticas sistematizadas em taxonomia construída para esta finalidade. Os modelos gráficos foram utilizados como ferramenta para representar e sintetizar os conceitos resultantes. Como conclusão constata-se: alterações no ciclo da comunicação científica, a possibilidade de construção de um novo modelo de publicação cientifica como padrão relevante para a prática de uma ciência mais aberta e mais colaborativa, e a viabilidade de incorporação dos princípios e das teorias da Biblioteconomia e da Ciência da Informação para a organização do conhecimento técnico-cientifico no mundo da eScience. / This research takes place under the conditions of an arising scientific paradigm, known as e-Science or 4th Scientific Paradigm. This new way of doing science is characterized by intensive use of computer networks, distributed digital repositories and by extraordinary generation of research data, which is a consequence of the heavy use of information and simulation technologies and advancing of scientific instrumentation. The information environment that is established as a result of these transformations significantly impacts the patterns of scientific communication, especially regarding to cooperative research, the sharing and reuse of information resources and ways to communicate and to disseminate research results. In order to create a context for their field of study, the thesis contributes to delineate new and renewed concepts for Information Science such as e-Science, curation of research data, complex digital objects, data repository, CRIS (Current Research Information System Model ) and others key infrastructures for the management of research and also of new conceptions of academic and scientific publications. The research is based on two assumptions: first raises the need for a model of scientific publication that would reflect the new standard for generating scientific knowledge characterized by data richness, and being able to integrate these data to publications; the second highlights that this can be performed according to the technological possibilities and standards arising from the Semantic Web. These two assumptions embody the formulation of the hypothesis raised by this thesis: a scientific publication can be enriched and be closer to new ways of generating knowledge, which characterizes contemporary science, if it is configured according to a model that links through semantic relations the research data and datasets to conventional publication. The method adopted was the deductive one, starting from general concepts of Information Science applied to the specificity of Nuclear Sciences. This was accomplished in two ways: through a literature review, for purposes of analysis and qualitative interpretation of the general concepts; and through the domain analysis approach that allowed empirically analyze the particular application area. As a final result was obtained a proposal of guidelines for a national policy for digital curation, and a model of scientific publication to the Nuclear Sciences area, in which the research data are linked to the academic publications by means of semantic relations systematized into taxonomy built for this purpose. Graphic models are used as a tool to represent and synthesize the resulting concepts. As a conclusion it is observed: changes in the scholarly communication cycle, the possibility of building a new scientific model as relevant standard to the practice of a more open and more collaborative science, and feasibility of incorporating the principles and theories of librarianship and Information Science for the organization of technical and scientific knowledge in the world of eScience.

The thesis examines challenges museum curators face when outsourced performers – whose role it is to embody the work of other artists – are included in exhibition projects. The research questions are: What are the practical, juridical and ethical challenges that come with situating outsourced performance labour in the museum setting? What does the inclusion of live performance in exhibition projects mean for the role of the museum curator? Two exhibition cases in Stockholm are studied in the thesis: Marina Abramović – The Cleaner (2017) at Moderna Museet and Dora García, I Always Tell the Truth at Bonniers Konsthall (2018–19). The material consists of digital surveys that were sent out to employed performers from each exhibition case as well as interviews that were conducted with both performers and curatorial staff. The material was examined using theories on affective labour and the theoretical notion of de-skilling and re-skilling of acquired competences.  The thesis shows that the practical challenges include the architectural conditions of museum buildings, insufficient prior knowledge on what working with performers entail, short project timespans and limited exhibition budgets. The juridical challenges include a lack of union recommendations for performance in museums and the difficulty of situating reperformances of historical works that in its form and duration may go against national labour regulations. The ethical challenges include commodification of performers’ subjectivity through instances of affective labour and mechanisms of objectification. In turn, both the outsourced performer and the museum curator turned performance curator inhabits a precarious working situation. The role of the performance curator is highly administrational and organisationally tedious in its positioning between curatorship, performing arts production and human resource management. Additionally, it entails a prodigious amount of affective labour in the reproductive mode – of emotional investments, conflict resolution and social liaison.

Data life cycle and research data managemet plans are just two of many key-terms used in the present discussion about digital research data. But what do they mean - on the one hand for an individual scholar and on the other hand for a digital infrastructure like IANUS? The presentation will try to explain some of the terms and will show how IANUS is dealing with them in order to enhance the reusability of unique data. The presentation starts with an overview of the different disciplines, research methods and types of data, which together characterise modern research on ancient cultures. Nearly in all scientific processes digital data is produced and has gained a dominant role as the stakeholder-analysis and the evaluation of test data collections done by IANUS in 2013 clearly demonstrate. Nevertheless, inspite of their high relevance digital files and folders are in danger with regard to their accessability and reusability in the near and far future. Not only the storage devices, software applications and file formates become slowly but steadily obsolete, but also the relevant information (i.e. the metadata) to understand all the produced bits and bytes intellectually will get lost over the years. Therefore, urging questions concern the challenges how we can prevent – or at least reduce – a forseeable loss of digital information and what we will do with all the results, which do not find their way into publications? Being a disipline’s specific national center for research data of archaeology and ancient studies, IANUS tries to answer these questions and to establish different services in this context. The slides give an overview of the centre structure, its state of development and its planned targets. The primary service (scheduled for autumn 2016) will be the long-term preservation, curation and publication of digital research data to ensure its reusability and will be open for any person and institution. One already existing offer are the “IT-Empfehlungen für den nachhaltigen Umgang mit digitalen Daten in den Altertumswissenschaften“ which provide information and advice about data management, file formats and project documentation. Furthermore, it offers instructions on how to deposit data collections for archiving and disseminating. Here, external experts are cordially invited to contribute and write missing recommendations as new authors.

Introduction. Previous research has shown that the increasing demands of research data management have proven to be challenging to both researchers and research support. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the process of managing, archiving, and sharing research data and what challenges it faces. Furthermore, it aims to investigate what the archivist’s role is and should be in this process and how archivists and researchers communicate and collaborate with each other.  Method. To pursue this aim, a qualitative method was used, consisting of semi-structured interviews with archivists from seven different public universities in Sweden, with three larger universities and four smaller ones. Analysis. For the analysis a thematic method was used, where similarities and differences, views and opinions were identified and categorized into different themes. Result. The result showed that a fundamental challenge is for the archivists to reach out to the researchers with the information and knowledge that they need and how to make that information comprehensible. The result further showed that several of the interviewed archivists believe that the current focus of resources and demands aimed at the development of open data is misdirected and contra productive because the researchers are more interested in and have a greater need of safe storing and proper archiving of their research data, rather than making it open. Conclusion. The investigation concludes that there is a great need for new ways for archives and other research support to reach out to researchers with information on research data management and that this requires more resources. It furthermore concludes that there is a need to further investigate what researchers truly need for them to properly manage and preserve their research data in the long term and what role the archivist will play in this development.  This is a two years master’s thesis in Archival science.