TY - CONF
T1 - Tools and technology to support rich community heritage
AU - Dix, Alan
AU - Jones, Elizabeth
AU - Neads, Carys Ann
AU - Davies, Vince
AU - Cowgill, Rachel
AU - Armstrong, Charlotte
AU - Ridgewell, Rupert
AU - Twidale, Michael
AU - Downie, Stephen
AU - Reagan, Maureen
AU - Bashford, Christina
N1 - Funding Information:
The British Music Society (BMS) was established in 1918 to restore international collaboration and exchange between British and overseas musicians after the twin catastrophes of the Spanish Influenza and World War One, and to empower amateur musicians in organising and promoting their own concert series. The BMS was formed by the progressive musical author, educator and organist Arthur Eaglefield Hull (1876–1928), with chapters in towns and cities throughout the UK and beyond. Many of these chapters remain active today, and while they may have limited knowledge of their shared origins in Hull’s BMS, they have amassed significant archives over the past century that shed light on the rich history of this extraordinary initiative and the broader role of music in regional community life. The Internet of Musical Events: Digital Scholarship, Community, and the Archiving of Performance (InterMusE) is a two-year project funded by the AHRC’s UK-US New Directions for Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions scheme (Ref. AH/V009664/1). The project brings together a team of scholars from humanities and computing backgrounds to work with three former chapters of the BMS: the Belfast Music Society (BeMS), British Music Society of York (BMSY) and Huddersfield Music Society (HMS). These institutions are eager to take stock of their histories and document their collections, and InterMusE is working with them to capture and link different forms of data relating to musical events with a view to creating a dynamic, open-access digital archive of musical ephemera.
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PY - 2022/7/1
Y1 - 2022/7/1
N2 - This paper explores ways in which scholarly skill and expertise might be embodied in tools and sustainable practices that enable communities to create and manage their own digital archives. We focus particularly on tools and practices related to the recording and annotation of digitised materials. The paper is based on co-production practice in two very different kinds of community. Although the communities are different we find that tools designed specifically for one are valuable for others, thus offering the promise of general tools to support community-centred digitisation and potentially also traditional archival practice.
AB - This paper explores ways in which scholarly skill and expertise might be embodied in tools and sustainable practices that enable communities to create and manage their own digital archives. We focus particularly on tools and practices related to the recording and annotation of digitised materials. The paper is based on co-production practice in two very different kinds of community. Although the communities are different we find that tools designed specifically for one are valuable for others, thus offering the promise of general tools to support community-centred digitisation and potentially also traditional archival practice.
KW - community heritage
KW - democratising digitisation
KW - digital archives
KW - digital storytelling
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U2 - 10.14236/ewic/HCI2022.2
DO - 10.14236/ewic/HCI2022.2
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85146200980
T2 - 35th British HCI Conference Towards a Human-Centred Digital Society, HCI 2022
Y2 - 11 July 2022 through 13 July 2022
ER -