Collections as data: what’s next?
VALA2024 CONCURRENT SESSION 03
Tuesday 9th July 2024, 2.25-2.55pm
Margaret Warren
- Director, Content Management
- State Library of Queensland
Presentation: (coming soon)
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Abstract
The Vancouver Statement of Collections as Data was released in 2023 following an international two-day meeting of practitioners and strategists, researchers and academics who asked critical questions about how the work of collections as data has progressed since 2017, and what is its future. The Statement is an update to the Santa Barbara Statement on Collections as Data and reflects the changed environment in the period since the original statement was released, especially in relation to heightened concerns about data sovereignty, the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence technologies being used with collections data, the environmental impacts of large-scale computing, and known historic and contemporary inequities represented in GLAM collections. This paper will look at what’s next for collections as data in the Australian context following the release of the Vancouver Statement, and challenge Australian GLAM organisations to take up the opportunities and challenges of ethical, sustainable, accessible and responsible computational use of collections data.
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