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Memory Modalities Opening-up Digital Heritage Infrastructures

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Culture and Computing. Design Thinking and Cultural Computing (HCII 2021)

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Memory is a double bind: on the one side, memory making is a basic individual and social practice of creating cultural traditions, and on the other side, it is a technical model in computer technology. Both concepts are entangled with each other. Since the introduction of computer technology and digital infrastructures, the means and modalities for making memories have changed enormously for professionals in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) and also people and groups in everyday life. HCI thus plays a crucial role for shaping these modalities of memory making, for creating connectivities between human and non-human memories as well as for opening up cultural memory making for participation by diverse stakeholders.

This chapter sets the stage for the inquiry into how HCI design may facilitate the opening-up of digital infrastructures for memory making to different people and groups in everyday life as well as to professional memory makers in GLAMs. It will highlight concepts which are used in both the realms of computer technology and socio-cultural theory, but still have specific meanings, such as memory making, accessibility, algorithm etc. A short description of memory making processes by individuals, groups and institutions will provide a basic understanding of memory making as a social practice. Furthermore, the relevance of media technologies for memory making processes will be sketched as a basis for shaping the modalities of digital memory making in respect to the experiences of people/users.

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  • 03 July 2021

    In the originally published version of chapter 15, reference 33 contained an error in the DOI. This has now been corrected.

Notes

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    The idea for this panel stands in the context of the POEM ITN research network, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 764859, cf. www.poem-horizon.eu. For the further outline of this idea, I owe much to the inspiring discussions and exchanges with the POEM researchers and supervisors in the network. The research focus in POEM is on how memory making can become participatory by building connectivities between people and groups, institutions, and digital media as modalities of memory. Moreover, I would like to thank Matthias Müller-Prove for his valuable comments on the concept of this panel and the abstracts of the three contributions of the four POEM fellows: Cassandra Kist & Quoc-Tan Tran, Jennifer Krueckeberg, and Angeliki Tzouganatou. Matthias Müller-Prove comments through the lens of an HCI specialist was a great inspiration for the reflection of concepts and analytical approaches.

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    Memory studies and critical heritage studies are thus interrelated but still separate interdisciplinary research fields with different bodies of literature, journals for publication and scientific communities. Digital heritage constitutes a third research field which is relevant in the given context.

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    www.poem-horizon.eu, last accessed 01.02.2021.

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    See for example: https://mprove.de/chronolab/index.html.

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    For a more detailed explanation, see the contribution by Angeliki Tzouganatou in this volume.

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I would like to thank all partners in the POEM Innovative Training Network for the inspiring collaboration and the European Commission for the funding. POEM studies Participatory Memory Practices, Concepts, strategies and media infrastructures for envisioning socially inclusive potential futures of European Societies through culture. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 764859.

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Koch, G. (2021). Memory Modalities Opening-up Digital Heritage Infrastructures. In: Rauterberg, M. (eds) Culture and Computing. Design Thinking and Cultural Computing. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12795. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77431-8_15

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