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Title: Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analog and Digital Image Archives (PIA)

Proposed by: HKB, Bern Academy of the Arts

Disciplinary field: digital humanities, design

Communication support : website, GitHub repository, publication, workshop/event

Type of content: code, interface, data visualisations, images, metadata

Timeframe of the project: 2021-2025

Author(s): various authors, users generated content

Third-party copyright owners: Swiss Society of Folklore (SGV) for archival images and maps

Grantmakers, sponsors or other funding agencies: SNF Sinergia, SKKG and others

Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analog and Digital Image Archives (PIA)

Summary of the case study and link

In cooperation with the photo archive of the Cultural Anthropology Switzerland (CAS) (former Swiss Society for Folklore Studies), the research project "Participatory Knowledge Practices in Analog and Digital Image Archives (PIA)" develops a dynamic digital archive and an interface that allow different interest groups (archivists, curators, researchers and interested members of the broader public) to explore, analyse, group, edit, describe, and extend a collection of over 100’000 images and maps from Switzerland.

Problems/questions

Longterm sustainability: How to ensure the digital sustainability of developed software solutions beyond the duration of the SNF project
Data storage: How and where to store big volume of data
Users generated content: How to deal with the copyright of content that is created and uploaded by users
Anonymisation: How to ensure the digital security of private user data
Participatory projects: How to deal with ethical and practical issues of data sovereignty within participatory research project involving users generated data
Open sources and open codes: Best practices for releasing softwares and codes (e.g. data visualisations) in open access