Data Diversity

Museums have many facets, but one of their key functions is to serve as repositories for histories, cultures, and information. In more recent years, our field has begun to re-evaluate the specific stories museums have collected, and more importantly, amplify those that have been excluded. On February 1st we explored diversifying our data with Frances Lloyd-Baynes, Head of Collections Information Management at Minneapolis Institute of Art.

 

Additional Resources:

AAMC Artist Demographics Consortium

  Judith Pineiro, Executive Director
  AAMC & AAMC Foundation
  judith.pineiro@artcurators.org

 

Slack: TMS Artists Questionnaire Group

Jaye Melino, MoMA (Host)

jaye_melino@moma.org

"Decolonizing Digital Preservation", Monica Montgomery, Founder of Museum Hue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgU3HhzvJuY












On Feb 10, 2021 there was a "DAMS and Museums" one-day virtual conference focusing on digital asset management (images, videos, etc.) in the museum sector. Monica Montgomery, Founder of Museum Hue, gave a really great presentation on "Decolonizing Digital Preservation", which I think is applicable to everyone working in the cultural heritage space, not just folks managing digital assets. The session is now available to watch on the Henry Stewart DAMS YouTube channel. I highly recommend it.
 






This presentation appears to be available only via the TMS List-Serv (TMSUSERS@SI-LISTSERV.SI.EDU) through an informal sharing via email. Folks might be best-placed to contact the authors directly.
"Building an Inclusive Database: Cataloging Race, Gender, Sexuality and Other Identities", Terri Anderson and Emily Houf, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Collective Imagination 2016 conference






 

Resources:

"Documenting Diversity: How should museums identify art and artists?" Frances Lloyd-Baynes, March 27, 2019. 

https://www.aam-us.org/wire/medium/documenting-diversity/

Data Feminism. Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020

 

Digital Transgender Archives  https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/

Ethical Questions in Name Authority Control, Jane Sandberg, ed. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2019

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000

Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities. Elizabeth Losh and ‎Jacqueline Wernimont. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2018

Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, How We Collect Data Determines Whose Voice Is Heard (2020)  https://www.schusterman.org/blogs/rella-kaplowitz/how-we-collect-data-determines-whose-voice-is-heard