dha2014 BoF
Beyond digitisation: preparing non-digital resources for the digital world and curation of
digital resources in the GLAM sector
Which Flock are you?
A murder of GLAM practitioners
A mob of historians
A parliament of DH practitioners.
Are we moving from an archive and library perspective - making resources available, but
leaving the question of the contents open – to a museum and art perspective?
Managing Schrodinger's Cat: an archival approach
A library perspective
Erwin Schrödinger (1887 – 1961)
Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik (The present situation in quantum mechanics), Naturwissenschaften
(translated by John D. Trimmer in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society), 1935.[peer reviewed journal]
Subject: History of Science; Philosophy
Notes: may contain a cat
Q530.112
A museum perspective
Schrödinger's cat is a famous illustration of the principle in quantum theory of superposition, proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.
In the experiment, which Schrodinger put forward as a thought exercise, a cat is placed in a box with a decaying atomic particles. The question of whether the cat is alive or dead is problematic until the box is opened.
Box – 2014/001. Cat on loan from RSPCA
The galleru
Splitreason – Schrodinger's cat t-shirt. Transfer, 2014.
(Gallery collection 2014/13)
Are we digitising the right things, and are we presenting them in the right way?
Case study - #GovHack
We barely create time and momentum for people to interrupt their busy lives to consider visiting a
museum with their precious spare time – how can we expect it to be an different with our online
content?
Seb Chan http://www.freshandnew.org/2014/03/museum-
content-attention-time/
Some further reading
I have a Zotero library - DHA2013 (yes, a typo)
https://www.zotero.org/lises/items/collectionKey/XFD9PJER