Digitizing migration heritage

A case study of a minority museum

Bibliographic Data

ID2653571
AuthorsRandi Marselis (0000-0003-1894-6462, University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume27
Issue50
Publication date2011-06-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedieKultur Journal of media and communication research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0900-9671 • E-ISSN: 1901-9726
PublisherDet Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7146/mediekultur.v27i50.3325
OpenAlexW1493580571
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

Museums are increasingly digitizing their collections and making them available to the public on-line. Creating such digital resources may become means for social inclusion. For museums that acknowledge migration history and cultures of ethnic minority groups as important subjects in multiethnic societies, digitization brings new possibilities for reaching source communities. This article describes Web projects conducted at Museum Maluku in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The article focuses on the museum's experiences with cross-institutional Web projects, since digitization of the museum's collection was initiated through collaboration with major national heritage institutions. The article also discusses how source communities through digital participation can become involved in building cultural heritage. Based on the case study of the Museum Maluku, it is argued that in order to design an appropriate mode of user participation as well as a sense of ownership it is crucial to take memory politics of source communities into account

Cultural heritage · Digitization · Ethnic group · Inclusion (mineral · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Museums and Cultural Heritage

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