Connecting Local Cultural Heritage Collections with ICT: the Case of ZBORZBIRK
Abstract Purpose: The article discusses the digitisation and inventory of 34 local cultural heritage collections in the border region between the Alps and the Karst, and the establishment of a network of owners, guardians of collections and professionals from the field of museology, ethnology, digi...
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Purpose: The article discusses the digitisation and inventory of 34 local cultural heritage collections in the border region between the Alps and the Karst, and the establishment of a network of owners, guardians of collections and professionals from the field of museology, ethnology, digital humanities and informatics.
Methodology/approach: In the framework of the project “ZBORZBIRK – Cultural heritage between the Alps and the Karst” 34 collections of cultural heritage of different type and contents, until then inaccessible to the general public and experts, were catalogued, contextualised and presented to the general and expert public in different media and on the project website.
Results: A unified repository with metadata on objects (units) was established containing also digital photographs and scans of images and textual objects (digital objects). There are 4583 units and 5190 digital objects in the repository. It is designed for researchers, experts and students from the fields of ethnology, cultural anthropology, history, linguistics as well for the general public, and above all to achieve greater recognisability of the region.
Research limitation: The research and the results were limited by the material itself, i.e. the collections included into the project, as well as by different aspirations of collectors and various levels of specialised skills of registrars and recorders who documented and digitised the units and entered the data in the metadata database. The project addresses a wide scope of potential users thus the implementation of different solutions gave rise to the conflict of interests among target groups. The question was whether it should serve as a virtual museum or as a research archival repository. More attention was focused on archival and research standards than on presentation technologies.
Originality/practical implications: The project ZBORZBIRK is one of the first projects in the Italian and Slovenian cross-border region which links non-institutional collections and collectors with experts. The collaborative approach, use of information and communication technologiesto enhance various parts of processes, and growing phenomena of local collections and amateurcollecting could be taken as an example of good praxis for comparable follow-up projects.
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| spelling | doaj-art-5ba6a3ea811b4af7976f26cb8acd4b012025-08-20T02:58:19ZengSlovenian Library Association & University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Knjižnica0023-24241581-79032014-06-0158310.55741/knj.58.3.13926Connecting Local Cultural Heritage Collections with ICT: the Case of ZBORZBIRKŠpela Ledinek Lozej0Miha Peče1dr. Špela Ledinek Lozej Inštitut za slovensko narodopisje ZRC SAZU, Raziskovalna postaja ZRC SAZU v Novi Gorici, Delpinova 12, 5000 Nova Gorica e-pošta: spela.ledinek@zrc-sazu.siMiha Peče Avdiovizualni laboratorij Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana e-pošta: miha.pece@zrc-sazu.siAbstract Purpose: The article discusses the digitisation and inventory of 34 local cultural heritage collections in the border region between the Alps and the Karst, and the establishment of a network of owners, guardians of collections and professionals from the field of museology, ethnology, digital humanities and informatics. Methodology/approach: In the framework of the project “ZBORZBIRK – Cultural heritage between the Alps and the Karst” 34 collections of cultural heritage of different type and contents, until then inaccessible to the general public and experts, were catalogued, contextualised and presented to the general and expert public in different media and on the project website. Results: A unified repository with metadata on objects (units) was established containing also digital photographs and scans of images and textual objects (digital objects). There are 4583 units and 5190 digital objects in the repository. It is designed for researchers, experts and students from the fields of ethnology, cultural anthropology, history, linguistics as well for the general public, and above all to achieve greater recognisability of the region. Research limitation: The research and the results were limited by the material itself, i.e. the collections included into the project, as well as by different aspirations of collectors and various levels of specialised skills of registrars and recorders who documented and digitised the units and entered the data in the metadata database. The project addresses a wide scope of potential users thus the implementation of different solutions gave rise to the conflict of interests among target groups. The question was whether it should serve as a virtual museum or as a research archival repository. More attention was focused on archival and research standards than on presentation technologies. Originality/practical implications: The project ZBORZBIRK is one of the first projects in the Italian and Slovenian cross-border region which links non-institutional collections and collectors with experts. The collaborative approach, use of information and communication technologiesto enhance various parts of processes, and growing phenomena of local collections and amateurcollecting could be taken as an example of good praxis for comparable follow-up projects. https://journals.uni-lj.si/knjiznica/article/view/13926collections of cultural heritagecollectingdigital humanitiesinformation technologycross-border regioncross border |
| spellingShingle | Špela Ledinek Lozej Miha Peče Connecting Local Cultural Heritage Collections with ICT: the Case of ZBORZBIRK Knjižnica collections of cultural heritage collecting digital humanities information technology cross-border region cross border |
| title | Connecting Local Cultural Heritage Collections with ICT: the Case of ZBORZBIRK |
| title_full | Connecting Local Cultural Heritage Collections with ICT: the Case of ZBORZBIRK |
| title_fullStr | Connecting Local Cultural Heritage Collections with ICT: the Case of ZBORZBIRK |
| title_full_unstemmed | Connecting Local Cultural Heritage Collections with ICT: the Case of ZBORZBIRK |
| title_short | Connecting Local Cultural Heritage Collections with ICT: the Case of ZBORZBIRK |
| title_sort | connecting local cultural heritage collections with ict the case of zborzbirk |
| topic | collections of cultural heritage collecting digital humanities information technology cross-border region cross border |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/knjiznica/article/view/13926 |
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