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As part of the King's Museum evening lecture series Dr David Beel provides a free lecture on the CURIOS project.
The CURIOS project is about how digital archives can support local interest in local heritage and, in doing so, how it can contribute to community regeneration and strengthened community cohesion. It will develop software tools to help remote rural communities to collaboratively maintain and present information about their cultural heritage. The objective is to investigate the use of semantic web/ linked data technology to build a general, flexible and “future proof” software platform that could help such projects to come into existence and be sustainable over time. Rural areas are characterised by a strong identity of people with place. These identities draw on a repertoire of cultural norms, knowledge, histories, customs and practices which, taken together, construct unique place identities. This cultural distinctiveness is dynamic, given that traditional cultural practices are reproduced and others are introduced as cultural systems evolve and adapt. This lecture delivers findings from the CURIOS project’s work in the Outer Hebrides with the Comainn Eachdraidh (historical society) movement as they have sought to use digital archives to collect, organise and disseminate their history and heritage.
- Speaker
- Dr David Beel
- Hosted by
- University of Aberdeen Museums
- Venue
- Regent Building Lecture Theatre
- Contact
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T: 01224 274330