Wikimedia+Libraries/Program/Submission/Decolonizing Curation? Opening Arts & Cultural Knowledge for Digital Education

Title of your proposal

Decolonizing Curation? Opening Arts & Cultural Knowledge for Digital Education

Name(s) and/or username(s)

User:Shahadusadik, Amanda Figueroa

Affiliate, Position (if any)

Curationist, Social Media Manager

Topic

• Publication and Research at the intersection of Wikimedia+Libraries

Type of submission (Please choose one)

• Tutorials, Trainings or Workshops (75 minutes)

Keywords and hashtags

Curation, art, Cultural heritage

Abstract

The open knowledge and open access movements enable curatorial work to happen in new ways. This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the new opportunities for curating open-access collections through the Curationist platform as well as other online tools.

Beginning with an interrogation of our project name, Curationist, this panel will first explore the latent power dynamics involved in “curation” as a field that historically has been used to emphasize the power of colonial empires since the establishment of the British Museum in 1753. Using our own platform as an example, we will lay out our internal thinking about how the word “curation” in Curationist is understood, critiqued, and ideally re-balanced or reclaimed by the co-created metadata tools of our platform and by the open knowledge movement at large.

From there, we will engage participants in a series of activities using the Curationist platform to explore how the open knowledge field can bring in principles of indigenous data sovereignty, community engagement, and decolonization practice. Participants will be coached through the curatorial process to develop their own collections of open-access images that speak to their interests and expertise.

By the end of this workshop, participants will learn how to create their own collections as a way of advancing these goals in open knowledge.

Expected outcomes

• Gain familiarity with open access art collections and digital tools for online curatorial work
• Understand how the open knowledge movement is pushing curatorial work forward in new ways
• Explore how metadata in general, and OpenGLAM metadata in particular, can be a site for decolonial and critical engagement.
• Empower Wikimedians to contribute to the discourse around cultural artifacts
• Learn more about Curationist and how they can be involved, including Metadata: Learning & Unlearning {Medium series}

Duration (without Q&A)

60 Minutes

Specific requirements

Internet, Projector, Notepads

Interested attendees (Please add yourself, and you may indicate your questions to the presenter).

1. User:Shahadusadik
2. User:AfricanLibrarian Quite curious about this. Definitely interested! (talk) 18:35, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
3. Ngostary2k (talk) 22:01, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
4. EriedgenArc (talk) 11:59, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
5. Lilian Viana (talk) 22:55, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
6. Xldrkp (talk) 11:08, 21 July 2022 (UTC)